Does my logic behind a vasectomy make sense? What do you think? (Semi-NSFW)

If you are committed to having no children, why not?

Not a bad idea, but I know you are young, so see about making some deposits at a sperm bank. You very well may change your mind in 15 or twenty years.

A vasectomy may prevent unwanted pregnancies, but it won’t protect you against STDs. And I agree with @zenvelo…it seems too early to be making such an important decision about how you may feel down the road.

You may be sure you don’t want kids, but do you want a long term relationship with a woman? Do you plan to get married at some point? What if she wants kids?

At that point you may want children as well. Either for her, or because the idea of a family with her is different than your idea of a family right now. Logically you can adopt, but there’s few things more emotional than the question of children.

I don’t know if you can really use the arguments of money or ease because you can buy a lot of condoms for the cost of a vasectomy. May you be so lucky as to burn through your funds on needed condoms, there are worse ways to go. As for the ease of drunken hookups, there are other concerns there that are just as life changing and more effectively handled by condoms as well.

Condoms are cheap, effective, keep you safe from STDs, easy to find and widely understood by the opposite sex. Also, easily reversible.

A vasectomy is semi-permanent, expensive, offers no protection from exposure to STDs and more difficult to explain to potential partners. “Don’t worry, I’ve had a vasectomy” sounds like it makes perfect sense, but don’t be surprised if you end up with a condom on anyway.

Buy condoms, use condoms, keep your options open and your vas deferens intact.

Uhm….You still need condoms….But since you really aren’t fully protected by condoms and it is possible for a woman to lie about being on birth control, a vasectomy sounds like a good idea. If you decide you want kids later, it can apparently be reversed.

@Blackberry is absolutely right, even with the vasectomy, condoms are your only protection against STDs including HIV.

I knew a guy who knew he wanted to get a vastectomy at 18. Nobody would even discuss it with him until he was 21. At that age, most doctors begged him to wait until he was 25. He finally found someone willing to do the surgery. He had no regrets. He had a baby book filled with pictures of the surgery—it was kinda sicko, but got the point across.

He ended up marrying a woman with kids, but they were all over 10 when he started dating mom. I think they were all in high school by the time they got married and they lived primarily with their father.

A lot of doctors will not be game for it since you’re so young (in general they don’t want to take the risk that you should have a “complication” since its not really a needed or helpful surgery for you as opposed to a much older man).

If you don’t want kids then I suppose its not a terrible idea. But at the very least I would get some sperm stored somewhere, because thats the type of thing that appeals a lot more when you get older.

Having this procedure done will not protect you from an STD, if you are going to have sex with a perfect stranger that you met Saturday, chances are she has been out since Thursday Ladies night and had a good time before YOU.

I know it wouldn’t protect from STDs