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THE BARREN MAN – INFERTILE MARRIAGE

March 11, 2009

When it was realized that a man might be the cause of an infertile marriage, it became obvious that his semen needed to be analysed more exactly. Before this time doctors had not examined the man. Instead, they had instructed the woman to arrange to have sexual intercourse, and to attend about six hours later. The doctor examined the woman’s vagina and took a sample of the secretions found around her cervix, which he looked at through a microscope. If he saw any spermatozoa, the man was exonerated as the cause of the infertility.

The ‘post-coital’ test is still made, but has only limited value. Far more information is obtained by examining a specimen of a man’s seminal fluid. This can be obtained by asking the man to masturbate or by suggesting he has sexual intercourse, making sure that before he ejaculates, he withdraws his penis from the woman’s vagina and comes into a dry wide-mouthed container, such as a small jam jar. The specimen is then taken, within two hours, to a laboratory so that the seminal fluid can be analysed. The alternative method is to produce the specimen by masturbation in the laboratory, a procedure many men find difficult to achieve.

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