Article: Pearl Jam: an essay, of sorts, in which the author and his dog weigh the pros and cons of castration vasectomy, and other drastic measures.(Column)

GROWN MEN ARE BABIES, AS GROWN women know. Relentlessly seeking out pleasure, we whimper and shrink back from pain. We may no longer drool, but I still we come crawling on hands and knees (or staggering sideways), always on the lookout for nipples. Which is why women lust for us most of the time. They want babies.

Even so, as a fifty-two-year-old father of four, I'm thinking about getting a vasectomy. My wife, Jennifer, is thirty-seven and will be fertile for another few years, but we seem to be done having children. Except during two pregnancies and for brief interludes with a diaphragm, she has been on the Pill since she was a junior in high school. Her ...

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