#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #335 - Antipatriarchy, Contraceptive methods: Stop sperm! About Testicular Contraception (ca, de, en, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 While women are confronted with guilt-ridden speeches about the management of

their fertility, men mostly grow up ignoring the theme. Faced with this
inequality, here are some elements of reflection on testicular contraception, one
of the ways, among others, of empowering men in the management of fertility. ----
Testicular contraception[1]is a subject which, in feminist circles, occasionally
comes up on the table. However, testicular contraception has a long and rooted
history in anarchist circles, and most of the methods currently used have been in
use for sometimes a few decades, even a hundred years. But when it comes to
meeting the costs and constraints of contraception, men are not in a hurry, and
testicular contraception remains extremely marginal and underused.

CONTRACEPTION, EUGENICS...
The use of vasectomy for contraceptive purposes began at the end of the 19th
century. At that time contraception was promoted by the eugenics and
neo-Malthusian movements. It was therefore marked by very strong class relations,
the objective being to limit in particular the reproduction of the working
classes[2]. The development of contraception will generally be limited after the
First World War. The fall in the birth rate and the excess mortality linked to
the war will lead to the adoption of several repressive populationist laws from
1918. In particular the "rogue law" which represses "contraceptive propaganda and
the adopted in 1920, to which will be added, in 1923, a law which corrects
abortion to better repress it[3].

Handmade penis rings. The device allows the testicles to be raised and maintained
in the inguinal canals.
SAMUEL FLAMBARD
Of course, the repression was aimed above all at women, and in particular at
abortion. But these laws, by criminalizing all forms of contraception, have also
prevented the development of vasectomy. In particular, the so-called "sterilized
Bordeaux" trial led to the conviction of Austrian doctor N. Bartosek, a pioneer
in the practice of vasectomy and having essentially practiced within libertarian
circles.

... TO THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN.
It was from 1967 that the law of 1920 was abolished, in particular with the
Neuwirth law, which decriminalized access to information and the practice of
contraception, under pressure from the feminist movement, and resulting in the
development of medical research on contraceptive methods, focusing on female
contraception. These methods have been a source of real emancipation for women,
freeing them from the control of men when it came to controlling the occurrence
of pregnancies.

This reality is not that of the majority of men who can easily pretend to ignore
the consequences of the search for their own pleasure[4]. Therefore, to speak of
testicular contraception is to question male privilege. The challenge of making
men responsible for the construction of egalitarian relationships between sex
classes then appears. It is this question in particular that the Ardecom group
(Association for the research and development of male contraception) has tried to
tackle head on.

But this contraceptive activism has unfortunately fallen into oblivion, and the
methods they have developed have remained largely unknown to the general public,
ignored by the medical profession, and neglected by scientific research. We can
however note some legal advances, as in 2001, the legalization of vasectomy. In
general, the permanent oblivion in which testicular contraceptives remain
confined testifies to one thing: a social class does not leave a position of
power out of goodwill, awareness of inequality, or activism, even of the extreme
left. .

The few people who begin to take an interest in testicular contraception often
find, after one or two hours of research, a good reason to abandon their good
intentions: maintaining the status quo is often much better than an obstacle
course. . However, if the difficulties are very real, the methods of
contraception are numerous, effective and known. Thermal contraceptives aim to
increase the temperature of the testicles by pushing them up the inguinal canals,
thus hindering spermatogenesis. Several tools can be used for this purpose:
slip[5], jogstrap or ring. Hormonal contraception exists today in the form of
weekly injections of testosterone enanthate.  The "pill for men", the only
horizon that seems possible in the media, exists, but for the moment requires
taking a large number of pills on a daily basis. Finally, the vasectomy aims to
cut the vas deferens (which transport sperm from the testicles to the prostate).
It is currently the most widely used method of testicular contraception in the
world. However, in France, only 1% of men use it against 20% in Great Britain for
example.

A CONSTRAINT FOR WOMEN
The political stakes of testicular contraception remain numerous. There is a lack
of medical studies, the vast majority of doctors are poorly informed, and the
devices encounter great difficulties in being approved. But the main obstacle to
the development of testicular contraception is undoubtedly a lack of interest
among men for devices that would make them lose their carelessness. For more
info, see Garcon.link, the thermal contraception blog, the CNT-AIT website, and
Pointpointpoint.org. So, a word for the end? Comrades, finally use your detailed
knowledge of who has the biggest for useful purposes: the diameter of your future
contraceptive ring!

Albe and Doriane (UCL Haute-Savoie)

To validate

[1]We choose to use the term testicular contraception and not male contraception
contrary to common usage. Indeed, not all men have testicles and not all people
who have testicles are men.

[2]See in particular Opération vasectomy, Élodie Serna.

[3]See Do not free us, we take care of it, B. Pavard, F. Rochefort and Michelle
Zancarini-Fournel.

[4]On this subject, A. Dworkin in her major book Les Femmes de Droite analyzes
the rejection by some women of the development of contraception and abortion as a
way of forcing men to assume their responsibilities, through marriage and the
financial support of the children of which they are the origin.

[5]See "The Toulouse ball lift", on the website of the Jef Klak magazine.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Methodes-contraceptives-Stop-aux-spermatozoides-A-propos-des-contraceptions
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