Most men get vasectomies before the March Madness NCAA basketball tournament. That is so they can recover while watching college hoops.
. The company launched a “Tender Meat for Tender Meat” care package giveaway for people who get a vasectomy before the tournament. Yes, March is a popular month for vasectomies. Experts say March Madness is the main reason for the spike in people getting the procedure. of the approximately 500,000 men in the U.S. who get vasectomies in a year, a large percentage of them get it scheduled in March. that stops sperm from being able to get to semen.
Since vasectomies take a few days to heal and rest is needed, many men get them done during March Madness so they can watch basketball while they recover,The March Madness and vasectomy combo began as a marketing ploy, Ajay Nangia, M.D., urologist with The University of Kansas Health System, told VERIFY.
Nangia thinks the trend started in the early-to-mid-2000s, when another urologist used the tournament to get more sports fans walking through clinic doors. After that, in the same way some businesses offer pizza specials during the college tourney, other urologists started offering discounted vasectomies.
“And then it took off, whereby then other doctors started doing this, then the media picked up on it, then it became, you know, a vicious circle of ‘which is fact, which is fiction.’ And initially, it was much more of a sensationalism, but actually started becoming true. An urban legend that actually became true,” Nangia said of the trend.
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