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Daily Sex Helps Improve Fertility

Posted by samzenpus on from the use-it-or-lose-it dept.

mmmscience writes "While fertility studies lately seem to have been exclusively focused on in vitro fertilization [IVF], new data coming out of Australia may help with unaided successful conceptions. The study has found that men who have ejaculate daily produce sperm with less damaged DNA. While such actions decrease sperm concentration, it does increase motility, meaning healthier sperm have a better chance of making it all the way to the egg. Good news, as another report has found severe chromosome abnormalities in over 90% of IVF eggs, meaning artificial insemination is just now discovering a whole new field of problems."

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  1. Nothing to do with sex... by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Although if 'twice a day' helps, all of slashdot should have near perfect DNA.

    Now to just find someone to spread it to..

    1. Re:Nothing to do with sex... by ceoyoyo · · Score: 5, Funny

      All those sperm, dying for your sins. That's ironic on so many levels.

    2. Re:Nothing to do with sex... by sopssa · · Score: 5, Informative

      You can count my DNA will be *great*, as I wank atleast 4 times a day.

    3. Re:Nothing to do with sex... by sopssa · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sorry, I browse the world at +4

    4. Re:Nothing to do with sex... by symbolset · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually, yes. Yes it does. As bad as this group is, it's far above the common troll. Consider idiocracy. Now go read 4chan, MSNBC, CNN and Fark. Then come back and comment about how the people here need to surrender their reproductivity to support the Darwinian selection of those mental giants.

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  2. Summary misleading by Macgrrl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While the news services have all been reporting that Daily Sex will improve fertility - surely a more accurate description would be that daily ejaculation (via whatever means) improves fertility.

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    1. Re:Summary misleading by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, but the headline "Daily Ejaculation Helps Improve Fertility" would not help convince my wife to have sex with me. It would instead encourage her to send me to the bathroom with the SI Swimsuit issue.

      That is no good.

      I would prefer the headline to stay as it is, or perhaps to be changed to "Daily Receipt of Fellatio Helps Improve Fertility".

      But I think that might be too much to ask for.

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      "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
    2. Re:Summary misleading by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

      When I sent my wife this article, she suggested we try "annual sex". Sounds pretty kinky to me. But first, I'm going to have to help her with her spelling.

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  3. Re:Hold on... by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does masturbation count?

    Yes

    Oh thank god.

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  4. Re:90% ??? I call Bull. by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm sure if there were "severe" chromosomal abnormalities we would have noticed by now.

    We have noticed. It is one of the reasons that multiple eggs are implanted, since so few of them are viable.

    This is related to why we have so many multiple births from IVF -- sometimes 2 or more of the implanted eggs are viable.

    Also note that IVF is done primarily when people have trouble conceiving normally, so incidence of abnormality should be high anyway... perhaps these abnormalities are part of the infertility issues that brought the patients to the fertility specialist in the first place.

    Someone I know very well has tried IVF twice... out of all the eggs that it was tried with (I think 6 or 8 each time), only one egg was viable... and that one miscarried during week 5.

    It's really not surprising to anyone who's been through it or has had frank discussions with someone who has.

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    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  5. Cruel by slave_to_coffee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Posting this on Slashdot is like sending Pizza Hut circulars to Ethiopia