The Bumbling, Crawling Sperms
In
the movies, sperms have been portrayed as swimming elegantly up the female
reproductive tract to inseminate the egg. What baloney.
The truth is that they’re much more like bumbling male drivers who refuse
to [...]
Revolutionary New Birth Control Method for Men
Well, I thought that the DIY vasectomy kit that we sell in the NeatoShop would have been sufficient, but apparently some men are looking for alternate solutions in the field of contraception. Namely, one that isn’t so permanent. An Indian researcher named Sujoy Guha thinks that he’s found the solution. Here’s how the procedure works:
Once [...]
Sperm Warfare (Or: Why it Takes 1 Billion Sperm to Make One Zygote)
The average man produces roughly 525 billion sperm cells over his lifetime and releases, in one way or another, more than one billion of them per month and anywhere from 40 million to 1.2 billion in a single ejaculation. The males of other species boast some equally impressive numbers: 280 million, 1 billion and 3 billion [...]
