Surgical methods: Minor surgery to block sperm from reaching the semen that is ejaculated from the penis. Semen still exists, but it has no sperm in it. After a vasectomy the testes still make sperm, but they are soaked up by the body. Men who feel a need to have their sperm available for the future can have it stored in a sperm bank before vasectomy. Important to discuss: -It requires at least 10 to 20 ejaculations to clear the tract of sperm