My brother had a vasectomy at the Marie Stopes clinic in London about twenty years ago.

He got the business done, rested for the required period and then set off, on his motorbike, back to his army base in Germany.

Now, our family does have pretty good recuperative ability and a reasonably high pain threshold but, by the time he completed the journey he had got to thinking that maybe he'd have been better flying that sitting astride that bike.

To add insult to injury, within a year he contracted mumps, with the side complication that sometimes occurs. He was so pissed off that he'd spent money on something that then came naturally!