Vasectomy

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What do you think of when you think of birth control? Is it condoms, IUDs, the pill? What about vasectomies?

From monkey testicles to possible cancer treatments to ties of honour, over the past 150 years ‘the snip’ has had a few variations and uses … not all of them are scientifically sound. But what is it? And how did it come about?

Kate Lister is joined on Betwixt the Sheets by Georgia Grainger to discuss the vasectomy’s place as a contraceptive, as well as its relationship with eugenics and masculinity.

WARNING this episode includes mentions of mental illness, eugenics and themes of an adult nature

Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Pete Dennis.

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0:00.0	Take this ad break to breathe in and out. Breathe in and out. Small things can
0:22.7	make a big difference. Such every mind matters for more free ways to be kind to
0:28.4	your mind.
1:28.4	Hello dear listener, this is Kate Lister jumping in here with a warning for you that this
1:48.1	episode of the Twix the Sheets contains absolutely no adult themes or sexual content whatsoever.
1:53.7	I'm kidding, I am kidding, honestly there is loads of it in this episode so if you don't
1:58.8	want historical smutty talk or pretty graphic descriptions of how the sect music carried
2:04.1	out then you are perfectly welcome to sit this one out. To anyone else who's still with
2:08.8	me, let's do this.
2:12.3	And here's a pretty scene a father and his five dogs. You can only see three of them. The
2:16.3	other two are behind him and he's behind the eight ball to coin a prey. Depends on
2:20.4	the straw and straightens the string. Next he clips off the feet of the straw and throws it away.
2:24.8	The snip. That sounds pretty simple doesn't it? Although mentioning that in public might
2:32.9	bring a wince to the eyes of anyone with a necessary equipment but what is the
2:36.9	sect to me exactly? How might it be the answer to all of our contraceptive problems?
2:42.1	And why wouldn't it be? I'm Kate Lister and today on the Twix the Sheets I am going to find out.
2:51.1	Why do you look for a man? Oh money of course. You're supposed to rise when an adult speaks to you.
2:56.1	I make perfect copies of whatever my boy needs. I just turn him down and push him.
3:01.7	But you're right. Now. You're right. Yes, social courtesy does make a difference.
3:11.7	Goodness, my beard's not bad. Goodness has nothing to do with it, Darius.
3:19.7	Hello and welcome back to the Twix the Sheets, the history of sex scandal in society with me,
3:24.3	Kate Lister. Aversect to me is a 99.99 percent effective method of contraception carried
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