It is Thursday the 20th of June 2024 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K

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host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. Hello.

And Alice.

So I recently, this is more information than anybody.

I went for a referral to get a vasectomy.

Okay, this is something I thought I'll do this because I don't want children and it's a sensible thing like going I'll go get myself spayed.

Yeah, yeah, is what I'm going to do. And it was especially because I've read a lot of

content of people saying it's very hard to get a sterilization procedure on the

NHS. There's lots of people and lots of people go together get it and they go,

are you sure though, you're sure though?

But those people tend to be predominantly,

mostly women, lady type women.

Lots of women talk about how difficult it is

to get serialization procedures

and that they get dismissed and asked if they're

sure and told that you know they might want to they might want to just stay intact for a little

bit longer just in case you meet a man who wants children.

Yeah, which is, it is bollocks, but at the same time of this

ecstomy is a much less of an operation than sterilization generally.

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