That was echoed by several other urologists and fertility specialists contacted by AFP, with many reporting a multi-fold increase in vasectomies and a sharp spike in web traffic to pages offering information about the procedure.

There is evidence that vasectomy rates have 'significantly increased' since the court ruling, urologist Marc Goldstein from the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University told AFP. 'Many of the recent vasectomy videos on TikTok highlight the Roe vs Wade ruling as the impetus for the decision to get a vasectomy, and how the onus of birth control should not fall mostly on women,' Katrine Wallace, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, told AFP. The trend stands in contrast to many others on TikTok, a platform that experts say is flooded with unqualified influencers who peddle health misinformation, including vaccine and abortion-related falsehoods, often to boost engagement and views. 'I do believe they (TikTok videos) are helping to fight the myths and misinformation around vasectomies,' the 23-year-old told AFP. The common misconceptions include that vasectomy is akin to castration or that it affects the libido and hormonal production, said Texas-based influencer Keith Laue, who created multiple TikTok videos about his procedure. 'You're getting neutered' was the title of one such video by Las Vegas-based comedian Jimmy McMurrin, which garnered over five million views. Some men have gone as far as filming themselves, from the waist up, while undergoing the surgery. Viral TikTok videos packed with buffoonery and mirth seek not only to demolish some of the myths, but to also promote the procedure as an option for men in solidarity with women robbed of basic reproductive rights. Myths about vasectomy – a contraception method popularised as the 'male pill' – have long flourished on the internet, fuelling what experts describe as negative attitudes about the procedure that has often been used as a punchline for emasculating jokes. Wade last June, according to multiple urologists and reproductive health experts. Men across the United States have chosen to get snipped since the Supreme Court scrapped the federal right to abortion when it overturned Roe v.

SQUEEZING his eyes shut, a man breaks into song while filming himself getting a vasectomy – a TikTok trend helping dispel misinformation about the procedure whose demand has soared following US upheaval over abortion rights.

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