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Penile–vaginal intercourse, or vaginal intercourse, is a form of penetrative sexual intercourse in human sexuality, in which an erect penis is inserted into a vagina. [1] Synonyms are: vaginal sex , cohabitation , coitus ( Latin: coitus per vaginam ), (in elegant colloquial language) intimacy , or (poetic) lovemaking .
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Sperm storage organs in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.Female was first mated with GFP-male and then re-mated with RFP-male. Female sperm storage is a biological process and often a type of sexual selection in which sperm cells transferred to a female during mating are temporarily retained within a specific part of the reproductive tract before the oocyte, or egg, is fertilized.
English: A video example of penile-vaginal intercourse between a man and a woman in the woman on top or “cowgirl” position, including ejaculation inside the vagina. Date 20 October 2020
The vagina also sheds its outermost cells to clean itself, flushing them out in discharges and mucus, Wider says. Fact No. 2: You can't actually 'lose' anything in your vagina
[citation needed] The sperm (being one of approximately 250 million sperm in a typical ejaculation) travels through the vagina and cervix into the uterus or fallopian tubes. Only 1 in 14 million of the ejaculated sperm will reach the fallopian tube. The egg simultaneously moves through the fallopian tube away from the ovary.
Only about 100–1000 sperm reach the fallopian tubes, [8] where they may survive for up to six days. [4] If ovulation occurs and the sperm encounter an ovum in the fallopian tube, fertilization may occur. A woman may also be naturally inseminated while having penile–vaginal intercourse for pleasure without any intent to conceive.
A 1992 World Health Organization report described normal human semen as having a volume of 2 mL or greater, pH of 7.2 to 8.0, sperm concentration of 20×10 6 spermatozoa/mL or more, sperm count of 40×10 6 spermatozoa per ejaculate or more, and motility of 50% or more with forward progression (categories a and b) of 25% or more with rapid ...