From 1 January, contraceptives will be subject to a 13% VAT rate – part of a carrot-and-stick approach by the government to increase births
China is set to impose a value-added tax (VAT) on condoms and other contraceptives for the first time in three decades, as the country tries to boost its birthrate and modernise its tax laws.
From 1 January, condoms and contraceptives will be subject to a 13% VAT rate – a tax from which the goods have been exempt since China introduced nationwide VAT in 1993.
The measure was buried in a VAT law passed in 2024 in an effort to modernise China’s tax regime. VAT accounts for nearly 40% of China’s total tax revenue.
I don’t know who will find this information helpful but I wish I knew when I was young.
A woman is only fertile during about 5 days each lunar cycle. Unfortunately those days are the most fun but the other 24 are safer.
Testicles descend when it’s hot to cool down because heat kills sperm. If you buy a microscope, and dunk your sack in hot water for a few minutes each day, you can become temporarily sterile and verify it with the microscope.
Finally, there’s a point you can press just in front of your anus that suppresses ejaculation. Any one of those things by itself would be risky but all three and it would be nearly impossible to fertilize an egg.
This is the worst advice. Is this Kennedy’s account?
Why is it bad advice to give men the means to control their reproduction without any outside party involvement? Because nobody profits off of it? The article is about limiting access to birth control. I’m simply saying, if your government does it you can still have safe(er) sex. No hormones or abortions needed.
Because the advice is BAD. You have no idea what you are talking about and if you keep playing doctor you will hurt someone. Medical degrees are not a scam to get money from you. They are to protect the public from people like you.
Because your advice is “naturalistic” shit. It’s not only famously unreliable at controlling pregnancies but it also offers zero protection from STDs.
or you could just, you know, get a 16 minute vasectomy procedure and bypass all that.
Fully reversable if you ever want kids, truly a better option and something I wished I knew when I was younger.
The reversability is over exaggerated, in the best case it’s about 50% from before the procedure
You can’t make a blatant statement like that without considering age and how long one has had said procedure.
As a general rule while not accounting for age and health too, see the following. Also, feel free to fact check me because I’m that sure of this:
< 3 years: Sperm return ~97-100%, Pregnancy ~80%.
3 - 8 years: Sperm return ~90%, Pregnancy ~50%.
9 - 14 years: Sperm return ~79%, Pregnancy ~44%.
15+ years: Sperm return ~71%, Pregnancy ~30%.
You made the first blatant statement. Furthermore you make claims that seem very dubious and then write feel free tonfact check me? Why not post a source? And pregnancy rate of 80% isn’t very good to begin with but it drops to only 50% after 3 years? Thats abysmal and to suggest to get such a procedure as a temporary solution is kinda insane. Vasectomies should be treated as a final solution.
No, you did with your 50% success rate and did so without a single citation.
But you probably know better than licensed physicians…
Again and as stated. it depends on the age of the patient, their health and other factors. But you probably know better than licensed physicians…
Conpared to the OPs statements, a vasectomy is a far better choice unless you’d rather let the woman suffer a full surgery with abdominal pains and scar tissue with a tubal ligation. Yeah, okay buddy.
I was not the one who wrote the 50% statement, but no worries.
Your statement was,“Fully reversable if you ever want kids,” and that is simply not true. I am not saying that i know better than licensed physicans i am saying that the actual data that you just posted agrees with me. A vasectomy may be reversible, if you decide for it in less than three years it may even be likely. But if you decide for a vasectomy you should not consider that as an viable option because the chances are not very good.
This i a strawman argument and you should know that. Not once have i argued for a tubual ligitation as a viable alternative for a reversible procedure. I am glad to discuss everything but let’s try to maintain some good discussion conventions and not just imagine new arguments.
Edit: from your source “Even if sperm return, pregnancy rates are lower (30-70%) and depend on partner’s fertility as well.” So one in three people wont be able to conceive in the realistic best case scenario.
Those are not great numbers for advocating vasectomy as temporary contraceptive
If the Chinese goverment is increasing taxes on condoms to force people to give birth more, I doubt they will let men get vasectomies easily
Best part about being in Asia is you’re a couple hour flight to Thailand, Singapore, India, Malaysia, and South Korea where such things like medical tourism is common for Chinese.
might as well tell them to make like a couch in a college dorm, and pull out.
Well for an added layer of caution on those 5 days, maybe, but not on its own.
“A woman is only fertile during about 5 days each lunar cycle. Unfortunately those days are the most fun but the other 24 are safer.”
Can confirm that these are the best days to get wiggy with it - ask me how I know…kids.