For further information about impotence, please consult a physician. Then the incision is sutured. The suture material dissolves so the stitches do not need to be removed. The doctor may advise a day's bed rest following the procedure. After vasectomy, there's usually not a change in sexual functioning.
Ejaculation still occurs, and sex glands continue to function as usual.
Since reversal operations are difficult, costly, and often don't succeed in restoring fertility, sterilization should be considered permanent. Every year, about a half-million men in the United States choose to have a vasectomy. A vasectomy is a simple and safe outpatient surgical procedure in which the tubes that carry sperm are cut and tied to make a man sterile. Using a local anesthesia, a small incision is made in the scrotum. A vasectomy is commonly done as an office procedure, and takes about twenty minutes.