In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, former Observer music writer Matt Weitz wrote a 1996 piece on the Vas Deferens Organization — an avant garde music collective that engineered ...

With two small children and no desire for any more, Jim Segermark’s wife sat him down for that conversation. It was time he took some responsibility for birth control. After years of taking the pill, ...

A vasectomy is a form of permanent male contraception that involves surgically cutting or blocking the vas deferens, the tubes that carry sperm from the testicles to the penis. Sperm is needed to ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This next reader shows a lot of self-awareness and self-reflection over ...