During the 1890s, focus began to move towards the contraceptive capacities of vasectomy treatments, generally motivated by ambitions of eugenics. In 1899, Harry Sharp, a prison health practitioner in Indiana, done the first claimed vasectomy meant to sterilize a person, rather then address a medical issue, like an enlarged prostate. https://artwork29405.suomiblog.com/vasectomy-an-overview-48560012