Man invents implantable switch to turn on/off male birth control

There has already been a way to do vasectomies with a special micro-valve, for some time. It was around for quite a while, wasn’t much used, and had a higher failure rate than a simple vasectomy, so the maker took it off the market. They also do a kind of vasectomy where they plug the duct instead of severing it, and that can be reversed pretty easily, more easily than a regular vasectomy which itself is reversible with a pretty good success rate.

I think the main problem with this idea for most men is that by the time they decide they want a vasectomy they are already pretty damn sure about it. If they aren’t that sure, they’re not going to pay a doctor to poke a hole in their junk no matter how simple.

Source: been thinking about getting mine for a number of years and still haven’t gotten to it.

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