Half a Man?

Hey, guys!  How many of you suffer in embarrassed silence, because you’re not as much of a man as you’d like to be, in the most important department of them all?  One thing you all fear, as teenagers, is putting some girl in the family way, and condom manufacturers do a roaring trade, but as we get older, our views change.

We start to see kids in a different light, as the desire to raise our own inevitably starts to surface.  It’s not just women who get broody about this, and very often it isn’t the woman’s fault when the patter of tiny feet fails to sound on your hall stairs.  More and more couples are having these problems.

You may think you’re all man, and everything any girl could want in bed, but getting it up and getting it on can depend upon the way you live, and what you eat. How many of you silently brood about the fact that, despite heroic sexual sessions with your partner, you’ve never managed to get her pregnant?

“Is there something wrong with me?” You ask, full of self-recrimination and doubts about your manhood.  It could be simply that you are one of the 33% of men, in this country as in many other developed nations, who suffers from having a low sperm count.  The lower it is, the less likely you are to become a father.

Men produce sperm for almost all of their adult lives, but research shows that modern lifestyles have halved this production, for the average man, over the last fifty years.  This inability to produce the goods can have a devastating impact, psychologically, crushing a man’s confidence and putting great strain on relationships.

Think about it.  A highly fertile man will have 80 million+ sperm per millilitre of seminal fluid, where the average is about 60 million.  Below 40, and you are at risk of being infertile, especially if the percentage of sperm that are motile ( can actually swim ), is also low. On average, only half the sperm you produce are motile, so the odds get longer.

Male fertility is generally on a downward slope.  Hot baths, tight trousers, sitting too long – either at a desk or while driving – can all worsen the problem, simply because they will keep your balls warmer than they ought to be. One degree extra, in the body temperature stakes, can inhibit the production of sperm.  Is it, though, a battle you can’t win?  Not in the least, if you really want to do something about it.