So gentlemen, if we took care of his contraception?

« J’has a copper IUD that has been terribly suffering for two years. Similarly, I told myself that I wanted to share this charge, ”says Nolwen, 24. Nevertheless, On this morning of August 2. Consequently, she came with Mathieu, her companion, to speak of so -called male contraception to the family planning of Bayonne (1). Meanwhile, “This is often how people come, when the woman finds herself in a contraceptive dead end,” explains Nicolas, a volunteer. In addition, Since December 2023. In addition, with others, he has held a permanence in the morning of each first Saturday of the month, to discuss a subject still too little known.

Coffee. Consequently, croissants in hand, Nicolas and Ségolène, the two volunteers of the day, detail the different methods existing in the couple. Similarly, If the hormonal method – an injection of weekly testosterone egnantosterone -. Similarly, so gentlemen, if we took the vasectomy – the ligature of the deferential channels – for the surgical process are addressed, it is more the thermal method which interests Nolwen and Mathieu. Additionally, Similarly, What the “Jockstrap”, the “Toulouse Route-Touts” and “The silicone ring” have in common? However, Raise the testicles in the inguinal canal for 15 hours each day. For example, resulting in an increase in their temperature, which alters spermatogenesis (the production of sperm). Meanwhile, Man can thus reach temporary infertility if regular spermograms attest to less than a million sperm per ml of sperm. In addition, The method is nevertheless not recommended before the age of 21, “because the testicles are still in training,” says Nicolas.

Testimonies “which do good”

“There is no encouragement from the doctors. ” laments Mathieu, 31, who has not found a satisfactory response from the medical so gentlemen, if we took community. “I went to see my general practitioner to tell her about it. but she was not informed at all so she sent me back to a urologist. He, I got it on the phone, and he only tackled vasectomies. I then called the Regional Health Agency, which told me about condoms or vasectomy for male contraception. These were fairly short exchanges, he recalls. Faced with doctors, it feels like being in another era, while we are in 2025. ”

“It is not known, the state does not take it at all. It is still a militant and committed act, ”says Nicolas, who has been using the contraceptive ring for three years. “I heard about it during an intervention in amphi in my engineering school. Three years later, I put myself there. Ségolène, the other volunteer present, also delivers her experience. She has been using the ring for three months in so gentlemen, if we took her couple: “It’s really based on communication,” she explains. I am my cycle, and I leave my partner the opportunity to take care of it. It gradually frees me, and that does something more between us. »»

“To have your testimonies, it feels good,” smiles Nolwen, who worries about his “mental charge”. “Will it be worse for me?” I will wait for my rules every month … Anyway, I will always have, this mental burden, “she agrees. The two volunteers insist on the necessary communication between the partners. since, as Nicolas reminds us: “You have to be transparent if there is a forgetfulness, because it is not the man who will carry the burden of a pregnancy then. “They advise to” think of a complementary method. such as following your cycle, for example “, and reaffirm the importance of medical follow -up.

So gentlemen, if we took

Taboo subject

“Is it annoying to wear, the ring?” Inquires the young woman, concerned for her partner. “There are possible so gentlemen, if we took itching the first two weeks, but I no longer feel anything, reassures Nicolas. It’s like putting my pants every day, it has become a habit. »»

If Nolwenn claims to talk about his contraception very regularly with his friends. this is not the case with Nicolas, who “thought he had no choice to make. But not to make a choice is already making one, he regrets. My men’s friends see it as a constraint. It is a subject that is avoided. I would like it to become normal to talk about it. “It is not normal that we are the only ones to talk about it. to have this problem, while there are two in a couple,” concludes his girlfriend.

Family schedule volunteers announce that Jockstrap and Rings manufacturing workshops will soon be offered in the Bayonnais room. To keep you informed of events, go to Facebook and Instagram (@planningFamilialPaysbasque).

(1) 47 rue so gentlemen, if we took Maubec, 64 100 Bayonne, 09 83 86 73 06.