Vasectomy is a rapid means of achieving permanent contraception. It is expertly performed by Urologists, as an exercise in careful surgical dissection. It is a day procedure under an anaesthetic.

Often once the family is completed, it is preferable for the man to have this procedure, since the woman has given birth several times, and no longer wishes to use female contraceptive pills, nor the intra-uterine devices. The woman also does not tend to wish for laparoscopic tubal ligation.