This is pretty amusingly oddball (ha, a bit of a pun): this video from France 24 starts with a collective of young-ish, French men who meet to sew harnesses to, um, make their testicles ride high and hot as a means of male contraception. (!)
It does go on to note that French men (and I presume, their doctors) are remarkably reluctant to have vasectomies - the rate is apparently 20% in Britain, and 1% in France. (Can't remember if that is age related - men over 40 perhaps? I see the figures in Australia are apparently 25% of men over 40.)
The national cultural differences relating to contraception are pretty remarkable. In Japan, it seems it is still only 1.3% of women who are on the pill - compared to about 15 % in America (according to the top story on my Google search.) Oddly, I can't easily see figures for the number of Japanese men who have vasectomy. I did find a recent study of its effects in Chinese men, though. Seems that physically, they were fine, but had more psychological issues. Complicated!
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