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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Jessica Phelan

What's stopping more men in France from getting vasectomies?

A patient consults a urologist at the CHU Angers teaching hospital in western France, on 25 October 2013. © JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD / AFP

The number of men in France getting a vasectomy – a minor operation to cut the tubes that carry sperm – has rocketed in the past decade, but the procedure remains far less common here than in many other countries. Vasectomies were illegal in France until 2001 and, despite growing interest, lingering reservations continue to put patients and doctors off.

The first time Justin asked a French doctor about getting a vasectomy, he got an answer he wasn’t expecting.

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