Having a vasectomy will prevent pregnancy and is a simple operation. There has been about 50 million men to date that have had a vasectomy which is about 5% of all married couples who are still of reproductive age.

There are about 6 out of every 35 men who make the decision to have a vasectomy. Family planning usually involves either female sterilization, oral contraception as the main topics of conversation but less often than vasectomy.

Vasectomy is a simple operation that makes a man sterile permanently. There is a no-scalpel vasectomy that has fewer complications than the traditional vasectomy.