Confirmed: More American men got vasectomies during the recession

Before the recession, 5.8% of men surveyed had had a vasectomy; after the recession, 7.5% had, say researchers who looked at data on 8,000 men ages 18 and over.

During the recession, “men in our study were reporting less income, they were less likely to be working full time and were less likely to have medical insurance,” says researcher Bobby Najari, a fellow in male reproductive medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. “In spite of all that, vasectomy increased.”