Vasectomies

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>> Speaker A: This is how science. This is, you know, this is why science is
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dangerous. You know, science is like, science is fine, but science
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is like, oh, you know, theory, but, like,
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it's the science that's cutting people open.
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Back to privy. Privy is a
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podcast about bathrooms
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recorded from my home bathroom.
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I'm your host, Hunter Hoover, and I love
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bathrooms. Welcome back. Uh,
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this is one of those, uh, the
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timeline's kind of interesting because, uh, and
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I've shared on the show, I pre record things.
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Uh, I have busier seasons in my life. And
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so, um, this episode kind of
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comes at the end of
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a large batch of prerecorded
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things from the summer that now will kind of be
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the first non pre recorded thing of the
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school year. Uh, as we begin to go back to school,
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um, just a fun. I want to read,
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uh, now, I'm not gonna read it, but I got a text
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message from friend of the show,
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Michael, uh, wall. And out here in
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Oregon, they recently passed a
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bill, uh, to put women's, uh,
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feminine hygiene products in all the bathroom and
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in the schools, male and female bathrooms. Um,
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anyway, and
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the text message was just Michael's statement
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about how many tampons
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he had distributed to the bathrooms. And it's an
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astronomical number. Um, in short, to
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fully stock just the high school
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bathrooms, all bathrooms, is about
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500 tampons. Now, I've never
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seen that many of this product in one
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spot, but I imagine that
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cardboard box just filled to the top with
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these was a sight. Um, but they have been
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distributed, and as I have just
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indicated to Michael countless times. And the
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coming months will prove, I'm sure you guys will be the
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beneficiaries of these stories and who
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knows? Maybe videos. But
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these kids at the high school,
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they're going to clog the toilets with
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them. There
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is no chance that these kids do
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not just flush copious amounts of
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tampons and thus, uh, completely
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sog the bog,
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I imagine. I'm a former
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custodian. I'm about a year and a half removed from
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the custodial life. But
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when I heard this was coming down the pipe,
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my custodial brain just kind of just went
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on overload. Um, to me, it's a terrible,
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terrible idea. I don't know of
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many people who haven't been able to get feminine
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hygiene products, who needed them, uh, when they could just
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go to the nurse's office or the counselor's office,
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uh, or bring your own, uh, and if you can't afford them,
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they give them away free at the health department. You
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can get them. But no,
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now they are fully stocked in the bathrooms here in
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Oregon. And, uh,
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yeah, pretty soon the toilets are going to be fully stocked
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with them, too. I'll tell you that for free. But,
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uh, today's episode is not about
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that. Um, one day here at
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privy, I'm a guy, and
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I'm going to be honest with you. I know I'm going to go out there and
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say it. I've never used a tampon. Never, um, felt
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the need to, um. I know there's the
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concept of a man pond where
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you put one up the backside to sop
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up the wet bog, but that seems like a
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generally bad idea. And I've never
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looked at one of these devices and thought to
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myself, man, I won't.
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Huh. Things shaped like
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that just don't go back there. That's what you need to
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know.
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I'm not, like, an, uh, aficionado on these. I
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need to have. Maybe I'll have an episode with
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more than one or two ladies on the
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show, and we can just have a feminine hygiene hour.
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That'd be fun. Fun for them. It's probably going to be
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uncomfortable for me. I grew up with no sisters,
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and so, uh,
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yeah, really, when I got married or started dating
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was when I became aware that these things
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were of active use in, uh, a woman's
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life. So there you go. Well, we're going to move on because,
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yeah,
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sometimes when we make an episode of
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privy, I try to put the
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reveal of the episode like, oh, what's
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the topic this week? I try to put the reveal. I try to
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swish back the curtain like some sort of strange,
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creepy magician,
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which is stupid, because the title
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of the episode, which just scrolls across
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your podcast player the entire time
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I am yapping, has given it away from the beginning, and I
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realize it's dumb. Like, I get it, but here we
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are. Uh, but this
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episode, we're just going to just
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get it right out there. Just plant and
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just talk about it. We're going to be talking about
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vasectomies, the history of vasectomies,
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and is there any etiquette around them? Now,
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I want to note, before we dive in
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here in privy, we try to keep things as
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family friendly as an episode about
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bathrooms and the things we do in
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bathrooms can be. We try to keep the
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squares to a minimum, the content as family friendly as
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we can. It should be noted this
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episode assumes sexual activity and
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discusses parts of the male human
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anatomy. We've already talked about
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tampons, so let me put it this
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way. If the last five minutes
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have been too much. This one might be one to
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skip. Go listen to our latest guested
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episode with Austin and Gavin. It's a treasure.
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But if you feel these, uh, discussions are too
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much, move on. All right.
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And now, with that disclaimer
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aside, we can begin
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today. A vasectomy
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is generally
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described as the act of cutting or
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removing a portion of the vas
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deference. More on that in a moment. In adult
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males, to sterilize and keep them from
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getting their spouse or partner
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pregnant. Um, now, if you're
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like me, which
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after I say this, you will find you are likely
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not. If you're like me,
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you are unaware of what a vas
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deference is until you
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begin to look into what
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vasectomies are.
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Uh, I have had
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this tube.
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I think it's a tube. I have had
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this, I think, most of my life,
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and I didn't know the stuff
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comes from down there. Here we
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are. But if you're trying to figure out
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how didn't I know about this? I have two
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kids. All you need to know. You
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don't have to understand
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how everything works all the
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time. It will still work.
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I think MTV has made a market on
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16 and pregnant just based on that idea.
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And that idea that we don't have to know how something
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works in order to go about
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pursuing it is going to prove more and more true
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this week on this episode. But
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a vasectomy essentially cuts the
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vast deference, again, that tube in the
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male zone of
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whatever, so sperm cannot enter
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the reproductive environment. And that's as family friendly
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as I know how to say that. But
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where did we get the idea to
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snip the inside of male
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genitalia to make it quit working
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or quit working in a very specific
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way? Well, as with
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everything, there's history.
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Now, no matter
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what your opinion or perspective
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is, vasectomies
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are forms of birth control. And
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while today is not a discussion of birth
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control, again, in,
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I would say, 75% of the types of birth
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control that exist, I am
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unqualified to speak well about
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it. Um,
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I don't know. She tried that
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when we were newly married, and it made her terribly sick.
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Uh, yeah. Anyway,
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but it should be mentioned that
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vasectomies are in this umbrella
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of birth control, and it
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has a complicated history in and of itself.
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And much of that, it was viewed as the
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task of the women to
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undergo birth controlling
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procedures and methods, both
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chemically, much like the birth control
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that is common today, but also physically
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with, um, sewing, cutting, or
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damaging the female
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reproductive environment so that, uh, they
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cannot bear a child.
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Woof. But when we talk about male
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birth control, history shows us
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one very interesting group of
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people. Now, I want to say here
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before we dive into this, because
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it is somewhat related, but
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the concept of it gets us to
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where the world of vasectomies
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begins to enter the fight. And this is a
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shout out to my young adults,
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uh, at the church. You know, it's an interesting
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thing. That's a concept I never really thought I would be
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doing. I never thought I'd be shouting out the young adults in my
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vasectomy history episode. But here we are,
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and we need to talk about eunuchs for a minute. And
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the young adult crew knows that I'm somewhat
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fascinated with eunuchs, um,
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specifically in the Bible, but in ancient history.
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And I talk about eunuchs a lot with them because I
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think they allow us a peek into something very
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specific, different thing. But
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eunuchs in history were males
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who have been castrated or
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have had their nards chopped off.
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First of all, youch. Second of all,
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they did this. It wasn't like they woke up and
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they said, you know what we should do today?
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We should lop some nuts. No,
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they did this because they understood
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that doing so would keep those
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men from then
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reproducing with the women around
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them. Now, you want this?
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Or more likely, the people in
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authority wanted this because I don't know very many
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eunuchs who signed up to be a eunuch. Some were born that
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way. Uh, they were put in that category because
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their, um, genitalia was marred from
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birth. But traditionally, if you're a eunuch,
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you had eunuchism forced upon you.
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It became custom to have eunuchs as
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slaves, guards, um, or
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someone close to the royal family, a leader,
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as they would not be tempted to seize power
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and could not reproduce with the royal family
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and thus claim some, uh,
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claim to the royal line
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via their own child.
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The term eunuch is actually
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related to this idea of goodness, of mind
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you is goodness, is mind. It is that they are
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well minded. They're going to mind themselves.
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The thought behind this is, well, they can't
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reproduce, so they can't have ill intentions with the
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women. Uh-huh. Now,
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I should note, unless all of the
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male genitalia was completely destroyed,
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I think they can still
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get jiggy with it. Uh, but
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many in these ancient cultures viewed and
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thought of eunuchs as not male and not
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female. They differentiated with them as this
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third type a neutered class
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in society. In
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ancient history, what we need to know
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is they would just cut whole or some portion
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of the whole business off to keep men from
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reproducing. Not great. Um, as a person
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with business, not great.
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No. And if you wanted to
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undergo male birth control,
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something that the male can do
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to control for birth for
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thousands of years, that meant cutting off
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or removing some significant
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portion of your manhood.
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As we have talked on, um, privy in the past,
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there came or a point in history
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where we, as people,
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wanted to understand how things
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worked. And when it
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comes to human anatomy and human
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function, the way we underwent
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discovering how things worked is
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we began to cut people open and study what
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was inside them. We've talked briefly
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about some of the religious and ethical things that
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had to get passed to get to the point where
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we can dissect a deceased human.
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But as they did so, they began to find out
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how things worked.
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In 1830, Sir Asleep,
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Paston Cooper, an accomplished
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surgeon, published a work
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called Observations on the
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structure and diseases of the
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testes for
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nonmedical following listeners at home.
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That's the nuts. This was the first
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time much medical attention was given
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to that area.
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Um, but specifically, he
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studied the tube.
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That is the topic of
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conversation this week, the vast deference.
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Now. Hey, thanks, bud. Hey, really got a good look up
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in there. Thanks for checking everything out.
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He really got underneath the hood. Cooper
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performed several experimental
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surgeries on dogs to investigate the
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anatomy further. So the wild thought is,
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so a person dies, a man dies,
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and Sir Astley Paston
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Cooper is like, may I
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dice and slice that dead body? I really need
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to check out his zone.
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Goes in, finds this tube, and he says, you know
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what? I think I need to go.
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I think I need to go do this to a dog. Such a wild
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thought. I wonder what happens if we cut this
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tube on a dog. Let's find out.
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But
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this is why science is dangerous. Science is like,
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science is fine, but science is like, oh, theory,
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but it's the science that's cutting
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people open. That's all I'm saying about
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that.
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But with these discoveries came leaps in
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medicine as they figure out what's underneath the
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hood. Medicine
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and medicine, adjacent things begin to
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form and produce new findings.
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But the first vasectomies performed
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were a far cry from
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the ones that people undergo today, and
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they were generally not positive experiences.
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Dr. Leon Goslin
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published the results of these
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experiments on dogs in 1853. Now,
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he did what he called, quote,
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surgical ligation and resection of
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the vast deference, or the
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vasectomy, and noted that four to
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six months after there was normal
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production, it left no
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effect to the production, just the
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distribution of the reproductive
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fluids. Now, like Cooper before
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him, he noticed no change in the
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testicles themselves. So far, so good.
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Yippee. Kai the dog
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is on his way. But the first
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recorded vasectomy on a human for
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the purpose of sterilization
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was performed by Henry Clay
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Sharp, fitting last name there to
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sterilize inmates.
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This was an early form of
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eugenics, used in the late 18
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hundreds. And the idea was this.
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If you had someone who, morally
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or as sucky and awful as
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it is to say history sucks sometimes
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racially or mentally, did not meet
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the desires of what society wanted,
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eugenics said, make them not be able to
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reproduce. So sharp began
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sterilizing inmates so that way, we can
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cleanse that little section of the gene pool,
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so that way they do not produce, I guess, more
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inmates.
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It's wild that we have so much figured out at this
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point. We have figured out that you can go in
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and you can cut this little, tiny tube,
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and it will cause a person to
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not have kids or not be able to have
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kids. But we haven't figured out
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that just because your dad's locked up
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doesn't mean you will do that, too.
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Baffling? Um, not great. But
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before this,
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traditionally here in the states,
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they would have castrated or crushed
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the testicles as punishment for sexual
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crimes. And so, in some
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ways, Sharp's offering
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was an improvement. Like,
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uh, I don't know anyone who, when faced with the
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choice, we can totally just, like,
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pulverize pancake city,
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your rancheros, or we can
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just go cut this one tiny little tube and move
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on. Like, his
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idea sucked, but it was better than the previous
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one, with research and theory in
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his back pocket. The first of these
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punitive vasectomies was, uh,
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performed in 1899 on a
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19 year old man. Now,
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it should be noted this inmate,
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as far as the record says,
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requested the
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vasectomy because he felt he had
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too much of a compulsion to masturbation
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and requested to be castrated as a way
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of curbing that desire.
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So, Sharp, he actually
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wanted to be castrated. He wanted the full Kendall effect
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downstairs. But Sharp convinced him to try
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out an all new method, the vasectomy.
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Read them and weep, kids. And the guy,
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okay, and this kid
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reports that it worked? He said, yeah, thank you for
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cutting my ball
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tube. I have
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no desire. Like, okay, interesting. Um,
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it was viewed as a positive step
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forward, especially at the time, forced
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or voluntary reproductive control without
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the crushing or physical harm to men.
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But anytime you're going to come
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at somebody with a knife, there's going to be
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a law passed about it. In 1907, the
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first sterilization laws were passed here in the states.
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It's weird that we're passing laws about this.
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And they allowed for the forced
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sterilization of criminals, rapists
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and the mentally handicapped. Now,
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again, not great. Uh,
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Sharp is said to have performed
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over 500 of these type
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vasectomies during his time as an
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Indiana reformatory vasectomizer. That's
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my word for it. Um, he also
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penned the Indiana plan in
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1910. This plan called for a
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nationwide rollout of vasectomies to control
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the gene pool in
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1927. Indiana is kind of a
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test case for vasectomies, I guess, but
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I think that's because that's where this sharp guy comes from. But
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in 1927, Indiana passed another
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sterilization law which would not be
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repealed until
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1974, almost 50 years,
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during which time it is estimated that over 2000
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men were sterilized in Indiana
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under this plan. Prior to
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this, in Indiana it is estimated 6000
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males underwent sterilization
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without consent in order to
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control criminality, mental disease
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and illness.
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All total. Until the
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act of punitive sterilization
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was done away with and made
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illegal. Over
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300,000 men had this performed
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on them.
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SiGMUnd Freud, um, he's
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the one that is like, hey, I think psychology
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is about like, seeing wieners
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and everything. When
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I think Sigmund Freud, this is probably a me
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problem, but when I think Sigmund Freud, I think he's kind of a
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pervert. Um, that's just me, but
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take it up with if there's a psychologist person out there that wants to
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argue with me about that. Uh,
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privycast@gmail.com I'd love to have you on.
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Uh, but Sigmund Freud was like, you know
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what? I'm going to get a vasectomy. And from what I
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can tell, it seems to have
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been to produce more testosterone.
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His doctor, Eugene Steinoc,
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that is the most german flipping name
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I have heard in some time. Eugene
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Steinoch believed that
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the vasectomy would produce
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more testosterone and thus increase
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manliness and reinvigorate
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Freud. Now,
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Steinok says that this
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worked and, uh,
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word kind of spread like wildfire. Oh, did you hear?
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You just go get the snip. And you're like a new
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man. You're less tired
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now. His findings were debunked in
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1935. Record scratch
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like it does not increase
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testosterone. Sorry, gents.
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Freud's doctor was deemed a quack and died
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in exile. Woof.
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Where once sharp performed the cut to
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dampen the drive,
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Freud's doctor found and believed the opposite, that it would
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kick it into high gear. You know what
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reinvigorates me?
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Big swag of that polar seltzer.
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So good. It's also terribly humid in Oregon right
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now. My can of polar seltzer is
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just dripping. Hey, you know what? This is the second
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can of polar Seltzer I've had in this bathroom today. I had a
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polar seltzer in the shower earlier. It was nice.
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Uh, this is the second one today in the bathroom. What a
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day. Two bathroom seltzer day. Love
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it. It's a good day.
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But in
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1937, the first
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vasectomy reversal was performed by
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Ed Twyman. Ed. No, sorry. Forgive me.
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Mr. Twyman. Ed Twyman. Not Ed. And
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C. S. Nelson. Okay.
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And back then,
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the vasectomy is pretty new to the game.
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It's not that widespread. And you
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go in and you get one.
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And who's the bloke that this point in the game
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is like, you know what? I actually want to undo
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that. I actually want to roll back that clock.
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I want to have another run at kids. Um,
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maybe just take yourself a freaking cold shower next
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time, partner. But it's at this
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stage that they began to actually
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study the effects and the
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impacts of a vasectomy on
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a person. And in this study, in
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short, they're like, seems fine.
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And they found that 47 out of 50
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men don't know how they got that.
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Fraction said that they would do it
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again. And, gents, I don't
535
00:25:57,034 --> 00:25:59,966
know if you know this, but you don't need to
536
00:25:59,988 --> 00:26:02,678
do it again because typically,
537
00:26:02,874 --> 00:26:05,826
vasectomies are permanent. So.
538
00:26:05,928 --> 00:26:08,866
How noble of you to say I would do it
539
00:26:08,888 --> 00:26:10,820
again, but you don't have to.
540
00:26:12,170 --> 00:26:15,006
Um, unless it doesn't take. But that's a different
541
00:26:15,048 --> 00:26:17,062
story. It was not until
542
00:26:17,196 --> 00:26:19,942
1971, shortly before
543
00:26:19,996 --> 00:26:22,710
the repealing of the Indiana plan and
544
00:26:22,780 --> 00:26:25,670
other such eugenics movements, that the
545
00:26:25,740 --> 00:26:28,342
act of, uh, cutting the vast
546
00:26:28,406 --> 00:26:31,020
deference. It's a stupid name.
547
00:26:31,710 --> 00:26:33,420
Why is it called that?
548
00:26:34,430 --> 00:26:36,140
Why isn't it called the
549
00:26:37,710 --> 00:26:40,686
sperm tube? I don't know who named it. It
550
00:26:40,708 --> 00:26:43,566
has to be, like, Latin. You know
551
00:26:43,588 --> 00:26:46,318
what we have? The Internet. What
552
00:26:46,404 --> 00:26:49,150
is vast deference?
553
00:26:49,490 --> 00:26:52,430
Latin for watch. It's not even Latin.
554
00:26:52,870 --> 00:26:55,480
Oh, it's the carrying away vessel. Huh.
555
00:26:56,070 --> 00:26:58,562
Interesting. Well, the carrying away
556
00:26:58,616 --> 00:27:01,486
vessel, it's a misleading name. That's
557
00:27:01,518 --> 00:27:04,386
what you need to Vase. Every time I
558
00:27:04,408 --> 00:27:07,090
hear it, I think of Vaseline. Stupid.
559
00:27:07,250 --> 00:27:09,398
But it's not until
560
00:27:09,484 --> 00:27:12,150
1971 that this whole
561
00:27:12,220 --> 00:27:15,062
act, like they've been doing it for almost 100
562
00:27:15,116 --> 00:27:18,018
years on various people. It's
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00:27:18,034 --> 00:27:20,906
not until 1971 that they go, you know what? Maybe we
564
00:27:20,928 --> 00:27:23,866
could use this as birth control. Like, we've been using it
565
00:27:23,888 --> 00:27:26,714
as birth control, but maybe we should see if people just want
566
00:27:26,752 --> 00:27:29,530
to volunteer themselves for it
567
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,110
as a means to not having kids anymore.
568
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,040
Uh, up until this point,
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00:27:36,370 --> 00:27:39,310
it was typically thought of that
570
00:27:39,380 --> 00:27:42,206
sterilization as a method of
571
00:27:42,228 --> 00:27:44,690
birth control was on the part of the lady
572
00:27:45,110 --> 00:27:48,002
via tubal ligation or other such
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00:27:48,056 --> 00:27:49,140
means. Now,
574
00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:53,940
m the world was different.
575
00:27:54,390 --> 00:27:57,320
Like, we've come a long way.
576
00:27:58,250 --> 00:28:00,886
I think we have. Now. There's people that would make an
577
00:28:00,908 --> 00:28:03,734
argument, Bo, everybody's racist and sexist. But
578
00:28:03,772 --> 00:28:06,040
here's the thing. Back then,
579
00:28:07,630 --> 00:28:10,394
the thought was, women have kids,
580
00:28:10,512 --> 00:28:12,986
so if we don't want to have kids, it's up to the
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00:28:13,008 --> 00:28:15,866
woman to be sterilized. That
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00:28:15,888 --> 00:28:17,100
was the thought process.
583
00:28:18,350 --> 00:28:21,274
But tubal ligation is more
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00:28:21,312 --> 00:28:24,302
invasive, carries far more risks than
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00:28:24,356 --> 00:28:27,246
getting the snip. That's what they found. They did all that research.
586
00:28:27,348 --> 00:28:29,966
They did almost 100 years of research and
587
00:28:29,988 --> 00:28:32,910
then countless years of research after 1971,
588
00:28:32,980 --> 00:28:35,842
when it got a lot more widely used. And they're like, you know what?
589
00:28:35,896 --> 00:28:38,434
This seems better by far. And
590
00:28:38,472 --> 00:28:39,060
then
591
00:28:41,190 --> 00:28:44,146
here's my freaking problem with science. So they figured it
592
00:28:44,168 --> 00:28:47,006
out. They're like, we can go in. We can snip this tube.
593
00:28:47,118 --> 00:28:49,506
We're going to call a stupid name, but we're going to snip
594
00:28:49,538 --> 00:28:52,342
it. But
595
00:28:52,396 --> 00:28:55,318
maybe we need to make it better. Like, we got to come up
596
00:28:55,324 --> 00:28:57,586
with something new. What's the newest way to
597
00:28:57,628 --> 00:29:00,506
vasectomize a man? Well, they came
598
00:29:00,528 --> 00:29:03,094
up with a method called the no scalpel method.
599
00:29:03,222 --> 00:29:05,658
And when I read that, I went, tell me more.
600
00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:08,266
Because, um, a
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00:29:08,288 --> 00:29:10,460
scalpel and your
602
00:29:12,530 --> 00:29:14,926
business do not go together.
603
00:29:15,108 --> 00:29:18,046
Like, generally speaking, you want to
604
00:29:18,068 --> 00:29:20,030
keep anything sharp
605
00:29:21,010 --> 00:29:23,970
miles away from that. Like, you don't want it
606
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,260
to go there, stay away.
607
00:29:26,770 --> 00:29:29,666
Um, but a no scalpel method was
608
00:29:29,688 --> 00:29:32,334
invented in 1974 by Dr. Lee
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00:29:32,382 --> 00:29:35,060
Shuni. I'm going to screw this up.
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00:29:35,450 --> 00:29:36,790
Dr. Lee
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00:29:37,450 --> 00:29:40,310
Shunikiyang. Now, I didn't.
612
00:29:40,730 --> 00:29:41,720
Moving on.
613
00:29:43,370 --> 00:29:45,800
And that's, like, the end of
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00:29:46,170 --> 00:29:48,710
the updates that they've made now. Uh,
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00:29:50,030 --> 00:29:52,214
essentially a no scalpel
616
00:29:52,262 --> 00:29:55,162
vasectomy. Instead of making a cut
617
00:29:55,296 --> 00:29:58,230
in the sack, your doctor
618
00:29:58,390 --> 00:30:00,970
makes a puncture in the skin,
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00:30:01,130 --> 00:30:03,966
and then they stretch the skin like a
620
00:30:03,988 --> 00:30:05,950
flipping balloon
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to, quote, see inside it. Woohoo.
622
00:30:10,218 --> 00:30:12,720
And then they use that as, like,
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00:30:13,030 --> 00:30:15,794
they're able to, from that point, from
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00:30:15,832 --> 00:30:18,286
the stretched
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00:30:18,318 --> 00:30:20,926
out, flipping brain
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00:30:20,958 --> 00:30:23,506
skin, to cut the tube and do the
627
00:30:23,528 --> 00:30:26,434
thing. I would argue a puncture is still a hole.
628
00:30:26,482 --> 00:30:29,142
Like, just because you didn't use a small knife to cut
629
00:30:29,196 --> 00:30:32,134
it, you still made a hole. So,
630
00:30:32,172 --> 00:30:34,854
yes, scalpel free, but,
631
00:30:34,892 --> 00:30:37,846
like, still a hole in your
632
00:30:37,868 --> 00:30:40,678
nard sack. Um, and that brings us up to
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00:30:40,684 --> 00:30:43,420
date. There hasn't been a lot of new technology
634
00:30:44,750 --> 00:30:47,658
in vasectomies. It's pretty straightforward. We put a
635
00:30:47,664 --> 00:30:50,654
hole in your sack, we're going to cut your tube, sew you back up, send
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00:30:50,692 --> 00:30:53,534
you on your way, uh, a couple days rest, you're all
637
00:30:53,572 --> 00:30:54,160
set.
638
00:30:59,490 --> 00:31:02,462
Here at privy, sometimes we have the privilege of looking
639
00:31:02,516 --> 00:31:05,426
to the future. And some things that the
640
00:31:05,448 --> 00:31:08,020
Internet, where everything is true,
641
00:31:08,710 --> 00:31:11,500
says that they have in the works for, uh,
642
00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:14,466
vasectomy technology. Because why would we not just
643
00:31:14,488 --> 00:31:16,470
settle for what works? Um,
644
00:31:17,610 --> 00:31:20,360
one is no needle anesthesia. Now,
645
00:31:22,090 --> 00:31:24,470
I like what I'm hearing. Uh, because,
646
00:31:24,540 --> 00:31:27,080
again, needles, much like
647
00:31:27,450 --> 00:31:29,894
scalpels, which are essentially a fancy
648
00:31:29,942 --> 00:31:32,730
knife, should stay very far away from
649
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,754
all of your zone at all times. Uh, so a no
650
00:31:35,792 --> 00:31:38,602
needle situation, pretty great. Um, the other
651
00:31:38,656 --> 00:31:41,462
is a planned reversible
652
00:31:41,526 --> 00:31:44,410
vasectomy. This, to me, is for the most
653
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,358
waffly hearted man I've ever heard. He's like, I want to
654
00:31:47,364 --> 00:31:50,314
get a vasectomy, but I don't know if I want to get a vasectomy
655
00:31:50,362 --> 00:31:53,342
to be forever. If only I could get one,
656
00:31:53,396 --> 00:31:56,174
because it's what all the cool kids are doing. And then when it quits
657
00:31:56,222 --> 00:31:58,978
being cool, I can, like. It's like a
658
00:31:58,984 --> 00:32:01,874
tattoo, brother. If you're going to get
659
00:32:01,912 --> 00:32:04,274
it, you're going to have it. But
660
00:32:04,312 --> 00:32:06,834
essentially, the planned reversible
661
00:32:06,882 --> 00:32:09,286
technology vasectomy, which I think is just
662
00:32:09,308 --> 00:32:12,118
stupid, but they do the same
663
00:32:12,204 --> 00:32:14,566
thing. Everything's the same. But instead of
664
00:32:14,588 --> 00:32:17,254
cauterizing, which is. Yeah. Oh, by the way, they
665
00:32:17,292 --> 00:32:20,266
burn the tube. Fun. Uh, fact, it's like
666
00:32:20,288 --> 00:32:22,380
a fun little barbecue. But
667
00:32:23,630 --> 00:32:26,106
instead of doing that, they put this
668
00:32:26,208 --> 00:32:29,002
gel or this stuff on it that
669
00:32:29,136 --> 00:32:32,090
seals it. So you have two tubes. Well, four,
670
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,102
I guess, because you got two. One on each side and
671
00:32:35,236 --> 00:32:38,074
four ends once they cut it, but they put this gel
672
00:32:38,122 --> 00:32:40,560
on it that blocks it. So that way, when the
673
00:32:41,650 --> 00:32:44,290
juice tries to go through, it can't.
674
00:32:45,270 --> 00:32:47,890
It's kind of like when you got yourself, um.
675
00:32:48,390 --> 00:32:50,660
For me, it's always chick fil a,
676
00:32:51,110 --> 00:32:53,854
but it's like when you got yourself that peach milkshake
677
00:32:53,902 --> 00:32:56,790
and you're just taking a big, fat. Draw
678
00:32:56,860 --> 00:32:59,318
that peach milkshake, and then just
679
00:32:59,404 --> 00:33:02,274
friggin the biggest clump of Georgia peach
680
00:33:02,322 --> 00:33:04,898
just right into the straw.
681
00:33:04,994 --> 00:33:07,770
Nothing. And nothing going through that. Well, that's what this
682
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,794
planned reversible vasectomy does, to your
683
00:33:10,832 --> 00:33:13,814
vast deference. It's like it puts the little peach
684
00:33:13,862 --> 00:33:16,090
clog right on the end of the tube.
685
00:33:16,430 --> 00:33:17,980
Nothing's going through there.
686
00:33:19,230 --> 00:33:22,186
They're also looking at male pill birth
687
00:33:22,218 --> 00:33:25,146
control. Now, they've had women's pill
688
00:33:25,178 --> 00:33:28,110
birth control for some time. Uh, and
689
00:33:28,260 --> 00:33:30,560
women's, for whatever reason,
690
00:33:30,930 --> 00:33:33,630
women's pill birth control often
691
00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:35,954
has fewer side effects, is pretty
692
00:33:35,992 --> 00:33:38,958
reversible, and so they're not finding
693
00:33:38,974 --> 00:33:41,826
that to be the case with male pill birth control. And
694
00:33:41,848 --> 00:33:44,686
so it's not being researched a lot. I will note
695
00:33:44,718 --> 00:33:47,620
again, my wife went that route and it sucked.
696
00:33:47,620 --> 00:33:50,326
Uh, we stopped that process
697
00:33:50,428 --> 00:33:51,840
immediately. Um,
698
00:33:53,290 --> 00:33:55,954
but in the world of vasectomies, there's a lot of positive
699
00:33:56,002 --> 00:33:59,002
here. I mean, as positive as history
700
00:33:59,056 --> 00:34:01,962
can be about a procedure that cuts open and then
701
00:34:02,016 --> 00:34:04,660
cuts a part of your nutsack, uh,
702
00:34:05,550 --> 00:34:07,994
there's a lot of positive. The
703
00:34:08,032 --> 00:34:10,274
procedure is considered safe.
704
00:34:10,422 --> 00:34:12,830
Complications are relatively rare.
705
00:34:13,170 --> 00:34:16,062
It's an outpatient procedure with more than half
706
00:34:16,116 --> 00:34:18,846
a million men getting one each year in the US. That is a
707
00:34:18,868 --> 00:34:19,920
staggering number,
708
00:34:20,210 --> 00:34:23,090
um, at least to me.
709
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,410
But recovery is usually
710
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,940
painless, uh,
711
00:34:28,310 --> 00:34:31,022
and they're viewed as, like, 99% effective.
712
00:34:31,086 --> 00:34:34,002
Now, I want you guys to go back to high school health
713
00:34:34,056 --> 00:34:36,934
class. Put yourself in there.
714
00:34:37,052 --> 00:34:39,526
I'm going to hit you with a fact. This is an
715
00:34:39,548 --> 00:34:42,486
ironclad fact. Teens, listen up if you
716
00:34:42,508 --> 00:34:44,070
want to go. If teens.
717
00:34:45,770 --> 00:34:48,220
No teenager listens to this, but
718
00:34:48,990 --> 00:34:51,820
hypothetical teens that might listen to this
719
00:34:52,670 --> 00:34:54,842
if you plan. This is
720
00:34:54,896 --> 00:34:57,782
facts. You cannot stab
721
00:34:57,846 --> 00:35:00,814
someone with a sword if it is in its
722
00:35:00,852 --> 00:35:03,600
sheath. Are, uh, you with me now,
723
00:35:04,290 --> 00:35:06,590
you cannot dirty your
724
00:35:06,660 --> 00:35:09,322
sausage if you keep it in the package.
725
00:35:09,386 --> 00:35:11,914
That's facts. That's
726
00:35:11,962 --> 00:35:12,670
facts.
727
00:35:16,150 --> 00:35:18,914
I'm sorry, but it's true. The
728
00:35:18,952 --> 00:35:21,666
only 100% effective 100% of the
729
00:35:21,688 --> 00:35:24,274
time birth control is
730
00:35:24,312 --> 00:35:26,206
abstinence. That's facts.
731
00:35:26,398 --> 00:35:29,046
Anytime, anytime you play hide the
732
00:35:29,068 --> 00:35:31,320
bacon, you have
733
00:35:33,210 --> 00:35:35,590
a statistically higher probability
734
00:35:36,570 --> 00:35:39,346
of producing a miniature of
735
00:35:39,388 --> 00:35:42,218
you than if you did not play hide the bacon at
736
00:35:42,224 --> 00:35:44,966
all. That's facts. And anyone can argue
737
00:35:44,998 --> 00:35:47,930
against it, but that's the truth. So, teens,
738
00:35:48,350 --> 00:35:51,050
get yourself cold shower, take a lap,
739
00:35:51,730 --> 00:35:54,554
drink. You know what? Just drink a train load of those freaking bang
740
00:35:54,602 --> 00:35:56,640
energies that's going to sterilize you anyway.
741
00:35:57,730 --> 00:36:00,030
But recovery is usually painless.
742
00:36:01,090 --> 00:36:03,826
Dang teens and their caffeine. It's pissing me off.
743
00:36:04,008 --> 00:36:06,770
But it's, uh, so
744
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,714
widespread that there is even a
745
00:36:09,752 --> 00:36:12,482
world vasectomy day today. Did you know that?
746
00:36:12,616 --> 00:36:15,506
A world vasectomy day. We had to create a holiday
747
00:36:15,538 --> 00:36:18,358
for it. We got a holiday for everything. Now, um, everybody gets a
748
00:36:18,364 --> 00:36:20,840
holiday. And so,
749
00:36:21,690 --> 00:36:24,642
in world, vasectomy day this year is on November
750
00:36:24,706 --> 00:36:27,638
17. That's all I'm going
751
00:36:27,644 --> 00:36:30,282
to say, is you might want to keep your ears out for a special
752
00:36:30,336 --> 00:36:32,746
episode. As far as
753
00:36:32,768 --> 00:36:35,130
etiquette, here's the skinny.
754
00:36:36,030 --> 00:36:38,714
Men should be willing to talk about it with other
755
00:36:38,752 --> 00:36:39,340
men.
756
00:36:42,050 --> 00:36:44,574
I would imagine if, hypothetically, I
757
00:36:44,612 --> 00:36:47,198
imagine that if a person was going to have a
758
00:36:47,204 --> 00:36:49,694
vasectomy, finding some
759
00:36:49,732 --> 00:36:52,142
dudes who have been there, done
760
00:36:52,196 --> 00:36:54,834
that, who are willing to talk at length about
761
00:36:54,872 --> 00:36:56,930
it might be helpful.
762
00:36:57,180 --> 00:36:59,534
Um, men, it's
763
00:36:59,582 --> 00:37:02,382
cheaper, easier, less risky
764
00:37:02,446 --> 00:37:04,834
for you to do this, and I would
765
00:37:04,872 --> 00:37:07,826
argue that it's your opportunity to
766
00:37:07,848 --> 00:37:10,694
put your nads on the line and put your money
767
00:37:10,732 --> 00:37:13,606
where your mouth is, because God knows the ladies have already done
768
00:37:13,628 --> 00:37:16,486
plenty of childbearing work. As for etiquette, it
769
00:37:16,508 --> 00:37:19,190
comes down to this. Follow your doctor's instructions. Um,
770
00:37:19,298 --> 00:37:21,654
most your doctors are going to say, shave
771
00:37:21,702 --> 00:37:24,300
it, shower it,
772
00:37:25,070 --> 00:37:27,914
support it. Afterwards. It's the three
773
00:37:27,952 --> 00:37:30,794
s's. Shave, shower, and support. Um, you might
774
00:37:30,832 --> 00:37:33,626
say no. Well, Hunter, it's
775
00:37:33,658 --> 00:37:36,426
all very good. Like, thank you for the history lesson.
776
00:37:36,618 --> 00:37:39,534
It's too bad for those dogs that they went after their
777
00:37:39,572 --> 00:37:42,334
nards, but why don't you put your
778
00:37:42,372 --> 00:37:44,000
money where your mouth is?
779
00:37:45,430 --> 00:37:47,810
Well, um, I'll see you in November.
780
00:37:48,470 --> 00:37:51,426
This has been another episode of privy. Thank you
781
00:37:51,448 --> 00:37:54,418
guys for listening. As always, we'd love for you to leave a
782
00:37:54,424 --> 00:37:57,394
rating and review. The five star options are preferred. And we
783
00:37:57,432 --> 00:38:00,326
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784
00:38:00,348 --> 00:38:03,158
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785
00:38:03,164 --> 00:38:06,134
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786
00:38:06,172 --> 00:38:08,470
not always free. You can send us an email,
787
00:38:08,540 --> 00:38:11,266
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788
00:38:11,308 --> 00:38:14,070
you. Comments, uh, episode ideas?
789
00:38:14,150 --> 00:38:17,146
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00:38:17,248 --> 00:38:20,154
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media. We're at Privycast. Wherever you socialize on the
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Internet, we'd like to thank Kevin McLeod and Pottington
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Bear for the use of their music this week. Thanks, Kevin and
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Pottington. This has been another episode of Privy.
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Thanks so much for joining us. Wash your butthole. Keep pooping in the free
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world. And now, as always,
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don't forget to flush.