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...glass womb" is made from two glass slides, one with a scarcely visible depression containing a ripe ovum. The slides are sealed together and attached to a heater that maintains a constant temperature of 97.7° F. Fluid containing male sperm is then dripped into a tiny fissure in the incubator slide and drawn into the "love chamber" by capillary action. Once fertilization occurs, the embryo is kept alive with regular feedings of oxygenated amniotic fluid, drawn from a pregnant woman. With "cold light" and highly sensitive film, color and black and white movies are made of the process...
...operation that Maharashtra's doctors were performing in such numbers last week is a vasectomy, a simple surgical procedure that is less costly, complicated and confining than female sterilization. The surgeon merely snips off a small section of the vasa deferentia, the tiny tubes that transport sperm from the testes to the ejaculatory duct. A local anesthetic is used, the vasa are tied off, and two stitches are taken to close the wound in the scrotum. The operation takes about ten minutes and requires only three days of convalescence. Indian surgeons tell patients to abstain from sexual relations...
Vasectomies are not foolproof; the sperm-carrying tubes may regenerate themselves if not properly tied off. A Bombay patient recently went insane when his wife twice conceived after he had undergone a vasectomy, and "sterilized" Indian peasants have beaten their pregnant wives or abandoned them in the uninformed belief that they must have committed adultery. Vasectomies are also not necessarily permanent; if the original ligature is not too close to the testes, a skilled surgeon can perform a successful reunion in about seven out of ten cases...
...functions, which permeates religious observances and social custom." Like many a Westerner before him, he was impressed with such yogi feats as reversing peristalsis to take in fluids through the anus and urethra, but was depressed by the far-out theories that went with them-such as that the sperm (bindu) is stored in the head and should be prevented from leaving the body at all costs. The result, says Koestler, is that a large number of Hindu men "suffer from what one might call spermal anxiety...
Covering a political convention is like melting down a sperm whale...