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...happiest woman in the world," declared Corinne Parpalaix, 22, last week after a civil court in the Paris suburb of Créteil awarded her possession of frozen sperm left in a sperm bank by her late husband Alain. In 1981 he deposited his sperm after learning that treatment for his testicular cancer could leave him sterile. He died last Christmas, two days after he and Corinne were married in a hospital ceremony. In February the young widow tried to recover the sperm from the bank in order to conceive her dead husband's child. The bank refused...
...chilly sludge. If intercourse continues so long that this sludge is dissipated, it is a sign that a fresh injection is required, so that night of love becomes a kind of spermicidal bath. Orogenital contact is definitely counter indicated, especially as the spermicides are about as toxic as if sperm were mice... Why the diaphragm and all that sails within it should be so gross is unimaginable: if toothpaste tasted as disgusting as spermicide, the teeth of the nation would have fallen out years...
...after Elsa's ten-year-old daughter by a previous marriage accidentally shot herself, the disconsolate couple sought to have another child. Unable to conceive by natural means, they turned, in 1981, to Melbourne's pioneering IVF program. Because Rios, then 54, was infertile, doctors used sperm from an anonymous donor to fertilize a number of eggs taken from his 37-year-old wife. Several were implanted, and two spares were frozen for use in case the pregnancy failed. As it happened, Elsa Rios miscarried, but she decided to postpone any further attempts until she felt "emotionally ready...
...results can be traumatic. Many men experience atrophy, or shrinking, of the testicles, falling sperm counts, tempo rary infertility and a lessening of sexual desire; some men grow breasts, while others may develop enlargement of the prostate gland, a painful condition not usually found in men under 50. Women who take too many steroids can develop male sexual characteristics. Some grow hair on their chests and faces and lose hair from their heads; many experience abnormal enlargement of the clitoris. Some cease to ovulate and menstruate, sometimes permanently...
...Cambridge experimenters produced a total of six animals with characteristics of both sheep and goats. Only one of them, however, had blood proteins from both species. That animal behaves like a goat and has even tried mating with female goats, but like another hybrid, the mule, its sperm are defective. At Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, West Germany, other embryo manipulators also reported producing goat-sheep...