PSYCHOLOGY – The use of vasectomy as a means of definitive contraception remains marginal. Many a priori hinder its adoption.
It was while chatting with French friends living in Canada that Patrice, 57, first heard about vasectomy. “My wife and I had three children before the age of 30, he says. We had tried all the means of contraception: the IUD, condoms, spermicides… They were all restrictive. We didn’t see ourselves using contraception until my wife’s menopause. I inquired about vasectomy with a doctor after the birth of our third child, but he refused to operate on me.. And for good reason: the “sterilization for contraceptive purposes” of a man or an adult woman has only been authorized since the law of July 4, 2001. Three years before his vote, Patrice ended up obtaining this vasectomy. “We weren’t yet using the term ‘mental load’ at the time, but it was thanks to this idea that I convinced a surgeon to operate on me, he explains. I pleaded that the issue of contraception was a stress…
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