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With these abysmal odds, a man clearly needs every last sperm cell he's got. Any fewer than 20 million or so per ml of semen--40 million to 120 million in a typical ejaculation--and his chances of fathering a child begin to plummet. That's why doctors are so concerned about a trend they have noticed over the past few years. In study after study, sperm counts in men the world over seem to be dropping precipitously...
...inexplicably by a third over the last twenty years, a new study shows. The study, conducted by the Cochin Hospital Group in Paris, will appear in tomorrow's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. It reinforces a wave of other research suggesting the quality and quantity of semen is declining among men in industrialized countries. The French study shows the concentration of sperm dropped by 2 percent per year -- from 89 million per milliliter of ejaculate in 1973 to 60 million in 1992. A sperm count of under 20 million per milliliter indicates infertility. The researchers couldn...
...tone. At other times, we are appreciative of his presence, for there are some lines only Keitel can cross successfully. keitel is both charming and endearing when, as Israel, he tells Jennings that he once a gave a lover a ruby and diamond ring to symbolize the blood and semen he had exchanged during their lovemaking. Jennings' response, "I never knew you were a romantic!" almost makes sense...
...California Cambridge Cryobank which Mark visited, dozens of college age men--including many from Harvard and MIT--have applied to become sperm donors in the six months the branch has been open. More than 90 percent are rejected, usually because their sperm count or motility is low, or their semen samples don't freeze well...
...Cryobank--with offices near Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley--recruits college age donors, who are paid $35 per sample. Each sample then produces several vials of semen, which are sold to infertile couples for $135-$165 each/ Vials can be ordered by catalog, using a toll-free number, and are shipped overnight. Indeed, ordering sperm from the Cryobank isn't all that different from ordering clothes from J. Crew...