...an outpatient procedure under local anesthesia that takes 10 minutes and lasts 10 years? It's hard to imagine how it could be better unless they literally just waved a tricorder over your junk.

You know that's exactly the same thing that's involved in a vasectomy, right?

Except with a vasectomy you have the risk of chronic testicular pain.

You know that a vasectomy is at least two weeks of hell, right? Of course, in the long run it may worth it.

Should You Get a Vasectomy?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775066

All you have demonstrated is that one person had a bad experience with a vasectomy and decided to write about it.

>The operating room is cold. The walls are busy with gruesome anatomical diagrams, cross sections that make the male genitalia resemble charcuterie. I lie back on the table, draw the paper sheet over my crotch, and seconds later the doctor and an older, hen-shaped nurse enter the room.

I know that all reporting is biased, but the signal-to-noise ratio here is abysmal.

compared to other means of male birth control, it is quite tame as I see it.