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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm investing in the IUD and vibrator markets. Women are not helpless fools.
Now we need to push for much harsher penalties for incest and rape. Minimum 30 years with no parole is my thinking. I'm for adding an extra 5 years if you are also a member of the NRA and a rapist.
My niece from NJ told me in a phone conversation that women shouldn't worry too much because COVID seems to be taking care or the virility of male anti-vaxxers. Her ex caught it and in six months his penis began to shrink and recede. i don't know if this applies to other men but she seemed to think it does based on her girl-to-girl talk with friends.
brewens
(13,581 posts)Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)American Men not so virile....
Mens sperm have been decreasing in number and getting worse at swimming for some time nowand, at least in the United States and Europe, new research says its getting worse. A pair of new studies unveiled this week at the Scientific Congress of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) in Denver suggest that American and European mens sperm count and sperm motilitythat is, the swimming ability of sperm cellshave declined in the past decade, which follows a similar, broader trend observed by many scientists over the past few decades.
One study presented at the ASRM summit, conducted jointly by a fertility center in New Jersey and a fertility center in Spain, found that the percentage of nearly 120,000 male infertility patients whose total motile sperm count (TMSC) numbered more than 15 million (sperm counts below which are considered low, according to the Mayo Clinic) decreased from 85 percent in the 200205 period to 79 percent in the period of 201417. The percentage of patients whose TMSC clocked in between zero and 5 million, meanwhile, increased from 9 percent to more than 11.5 percent.
The other study, conducted by researchers at Mount Sinais Icahn School of Medicine in collaboration with the California Cryobank and Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, compared more than 124,000 samples from 2,600 sperm donors between the ages of 19 and 38 in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Houston, Boston, Indianapolis, and New York City. The researchers found that total sperm count, sperm concentration, and TMSC all decreased over time from 2007 to 2017except in New York City, where all three parameters held steady. (In Boston, too, the researchers note, sperm count held steady, while concentration and TMSC declined.) Given that donors have higher than average sperm counts, these trends would likely be magnified in the general population, writes the lead study author, Sydney Chang, a fellow at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York.
Taken together, the two studies suggest that men who are already experiencing issues with infertility are experiencing further decreases in viable spermbut fertile men are experiencing decreases in viable sperm, too.
Add to this COVID's affect on circulation and blood flow, and we've got a recipe for deflated maga tube steak, no?
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/sperm-counts-continue-to-fall/572794/
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)As Im thinking of aging populations in both the US and Europe as the Baby Boom moves into their senior years.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)The article speaks of American and European men...the white guys.
Wonder what the fertility and motility rates are for everyone those white guys consider "Other."
Wait until they find out it's the F-150s and Budweiser longnecks causing the problem....
samnsara
(17,622 posts)..yep there are a lot of ways we can do without them....