Among the methods of male contraception, vasectomy is increasingly practiced in France, with 23,306 operations carried out in 2021, against 1,908 in 2010, according to figures from Family Planning.

In men, however, the use of this technique still seems taboo and subject to much ridicule.

This Tuesday, in the middle of World Vasectomy Week (from November 12 to 18), a surfer, Théo Rivière, was able to bear the brunt of it on Twitter.

A virile rhetoric

In a widely relayed tweet, the man indeed shared the experience of his operation.

“Blown out of the anesthesia but otherwise almost zero pain and it went super fast,” he summed up.

“If you are a person with a penis, sure you do not want children and want to free your partners from this aspect, I recommend it,” he added.


Well back from my vasectomy.

Stuck from the anesthesia but otherwise almost zero pain and it went super fast.


Really, if you are a person with a penis sure you don't want children and you want to free your partners from this aspect, I recommend it.

pic.twitter.com/RZOjBST59w

— Theo Rivière (@Theo_Sacha) November 15, 2022

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The message was obviously not appreciated by all Internet users, some of whom sent insulting messages in response to its publication.

“The sub-man”, for example, wrote a user.

“Natural selection”, launched another Internet user, taking up a eugenicist rhetoric widespread in certain far-right circles.

A short-term intervention

Some people have also compared vasectomy to castration.

On social networks, the activist essayist Illana Weizman therefore recalled that this operation did not consist in the removal of the testicles, but in the section of the channels which come to transport the spermatozoa.

The operation lasts about thirty minutes and can be done under local or general anesthesia.

She has no sexual complications, also specifies Dr. Stéphane Mallick, urologist.

For several years, this contraceptive method has been acclaimed in many feminist circles.

These activists highlight the mental and material burden that the contraceptive burden represents for women who also suffer, for some, from side effects with the pill.

Vasectomy is therefore seen as a way to bring back parity.

Note that in France, a reflection period of 4 months must be respected between the first consultation and the operation.

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