It soon wastes, and becomes as functionless as
though it were removed.
This operation can be performed in a Surgery with the aid of a little
Cocaine, and the patient may walk to his home, sterilized for the rest
of his natural life, after the complete loss of any accumulated fluid.
Of these two operations for the sterilization of men, vasectomy is
preferable. The major operation for the purpose of inducing artificial
sterility should never for a moment be considered.
But vasectomy, though surgically simple, and a less violation of
sentiment than castration, cannot be justified except in exceptional
cases.
Neither of these operations makes the subjects of them altogether or at
once impotent, certainly not for years. It sterilizes and partly unsexes
them and in the end completely so.
But the physical and mental changes that follow the operation in the
young adolescent are grave and serious, and a violent outrage upon the
man's nature and sentiment.
Society can hope for nothing but evil from the man she forcibly unsexes;
but if he must be kept in durance vile for the whole of his life there
is little need for such an operation.
The criminal cases bad enough to justify this grave and extreme measure
should be incarcerated for life.
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