while showering today i found lots of red spots around my hip-al region. they look like some kind of bites. i shall ignore them. maybe i should stop computing on the floor.
we visited a woman today who is 38 weeks pregnant. she is 19 and has a 5 year old daughter. she was asking about sterilization. morena, the health promoter, was advising her to wait two years, that she might be lonely when her kids start school, that she might remarry and her new husband might want children. i understand that tubal litigation is a serious surgical procedure and that 19 is pretty young to undergo it. i said, why don't you just have your husband get a vasectomy? i cited the fact that at the pro familia clinic, tubal litigation is $38 while a vasectomy is $6, and that vasectomies are much less invasive. morena said the men here aren't ready for it, that they think it will make them less of a man. have you ever tried to convince them otherwise, i asked? no, i don't think they'd go for it, she said. and thus i have found a new challenge. i've actually been thinking about this for a long time, that vasectomy is the birth control option that makes the most sense for a committed couple who is done having children. check out these facts/reasons on tubal litigation vs vasectomy. if women spend years injecting hormones into their bodies to prevent pregnancy, it's the least their partner can do in return, right? if i convince one man to get a vasectomy i will be overjoyed. it's a tough sell in a machista culture. but isn't the prime audience for your manliness your wife? and won't your wife be elated to be able to stop taking pills or getting injections?
while we were leaving this house, a neighbor guy who had been watching the consult and listening intently to the vasectomy conversation yelled out to morena "i want to add that flower to my garden" (me). thanks, i'd love to join your harem, really, it sounds neat. let's get together sometime, just me and you and your wife, and talk about cutting your vas deferens. i'll bring diagrams.
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"but isn't the prime audience for your manliness your wife?"
ReplyDeletei think this assumption is the crux of the difficulty you will face in this battle, amiga. es la cultura...la sociedad es la audiencia primera, siempre.
This was hilarious and great.
ReplyDeleteI have frequent conversations with my girlfriend where she asks me whether I would go on a male birth control pill if there was one, and my answer is always "For the thousanth time, yes!"
(although, given the biology involved it would probably be more invasive than the female pill... but that aside...)
Anyway, great project down there (ha).
a good point, chris. i shall design some kind of vasectomy competition so it will appeal to particularly manly men.
ReplyDeletethanks nick! project down there. that's funny.