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Male infertility. Male infertility refers to a sexually mature male's inability to impregnate a fertile female. [1] In humans, it accounts for 40–50% of infertility. [2][3][4][5] It affects approximately 7% of all men. [6] Male infertility is commonly due to deficiencies in the semen, and semen quality is used as a surrogate measure of male ...
The diagnosis of infertility causes many males to question their masculinity.Male factor infertility is frequently associated with high levels of social stigma; for example, in a study exploring the views of fertile individuals towards infertile men and women, Miall (1994) [6] found that male infertility was frequently seen as arising from sexual dysfunction and was thus associated with higher ...
Infertility and childlessness stigmas are social and cultural codes that identify the inability to have children as a disgraceful state of being. Broadly speaking, in many cultures, "Demonstrating fertility is necessary to be considered a full adult, a real man or woman, and to leave a legacy after death," and thus the failure to make this ...
Frequency. 113 million (2015) [1] Infertility is the inability of an animal or plant to reproduce by natural means. It is usually not the natural state of a healthy adult, except notably among certain eusocial species (mostly haplodiploid insects). It is the normal state of a human child or other young offspring, because they have not undergone ...
Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) is a tool of assisted reproductive technology against infertility. Eggs are removed from a woman's ovaries, and placed in one of the fallopian tubes, along with the man's sperm. The technique, first attempted by Steptoe and Edwards [1] and later pioneered by endocrinologist Ricardo Asch, allows ...
Klinefelter syndrome (KS), also known as 47,XXY, is a chromosome anomaly where a male has an extra X chromosome. [10] These complications commonly include infertility and small, poorly functioning testicles (if present). These symptoms are often noticed only at puberty, although this is one of the most common chromosomal disorders, occurring in ...
Genetics of infertility. About 10–15% of human couples are infertile, unable to conceive. In approximately in half of these cases, the underlying cause is related to the male. The underlying causative factors in the male infertility can be attributed to environmental toxins, systemic disorders such as, hypothalamic–pituitary disease ...
Docking (the insertion of one man's penis into another man's foreskin) is also practiced. Manual sex is another non-penetrative sex act that can occur between men. This includes handjobs, which is the use of one's hands to stimulate someone else's penis or scrotum, and anal fingering, which is the use of one's fingers to stimulate someone's anus.