cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29563625

In over 30 years of practice, Dr. Errol Billinkoff rarely saw a man without kids come into his Winnipeg clinic to get a vasectomy. But since the pandemic began, he says it’s become an almost daily occurrence.

And he’s not alone.

“At first, I thought I was the only one who was noticing this,” Billinkoff, who brought a no-scalpel vasectomy procedure to Winnipeg in the early 1990s, told CBC News in a November interview.

“But I am part of an international chat group where doctors who do vasectomies participate and the topic came up, and it’s like everybody notices it.”

    • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      Same. My shitty insurance even paid for every last dime of it. I guess they know as well as anyone how much kids cost.

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    I’m a gay man(ish) working retail. The number of times I’ve thought about getting one from all the condom accidents running around…

    • Im_old@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 days ago

      Oh man, I would have imagined being gay accidentally making kids is one less thing to worry about? But if you occasionally dip in clam sauce, get one. You get someone else to jiggle your junk while doing casual conversation 😂

      • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        5 days ago

        Oh definitely less to worry about, but damn, the way these kids act, makes me want to get the snip in solidarity.

        • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          but damn, the way these kids act, makes me want to get the snip in solidarity.

          True dat, you’d think that woukd put most people off kids.

          I had mine done 3 decades ago, slight pain but a bit better every day, 5 days after, all good.

      • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
        9·
        5 days ago

        You get someone else to jiggle your junk

        NGL I was so anxious leading up to the procedure I was basically inverted down there. My little dude straight up turtled himself into my pelvis. I mean, I’m a grower and all, but this was Scandinavian polar plunge levels of nope. I would have been embarrassed if I wasn’t so impressed with the amount of retreating that was happening