Sperm

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  • The secret life of sperm

    New theories on how evolution has reacted to the threat of infidelity. Consider this our post-Valentine's Day gift.
  • The secret life of sperm

    The author of a new book on the social history of "baby gravy" discusses sperm in children's books, the frontiers of artificial insemination and how semen became a TV star.
  • FDA to gay men: No thanks

    George W. Bush's Food and Drug Administration says men who have engaged in gay sex in the last five years shouldn't be anonymous sperm donors.
  • Seeds of life

    A company in California is offering soldiers heading to Iraq free storage of their sperm for a year.
  • Men, guard your genes!

    Baby-obsessed bachelorettes will soon be able to create sperm from stray skin cells, warns Britain's Telegraph.
  • STD e-cards, sex beats romance and more

    V-day greeting: "I got screwed while screwing, you might have too."
  • Dead man's sperm

    An Israeli court gives parents permission to have a woman inseminated with their dead son's sperm.
  • Progress on the male pill

    Hurray for contraception! But will men take a pill that prevents ejaculation?
  • Sisterhood of sperm

    Meet 11 women who have one sperm donor in common.
  • It's the sperm, stupid

    A Scottish study shows that while larger sheep may mate more often, they don't sire more offspring than the little guys.
  • Designer eggs

    This month a panel of medical experts responded to a Web pornographer who tried to auction supermodel eggs.
  • 31 Ejaculations: No. 18

    I just get hard the minute they screw the metal clamps around my penis.
  • Healthy wombs

    Zinc and selenium are better for you than beer and potato chips.
  • Blame Canada

    Canadians are importing U.S. sperm in record amounts.
  • Model children

    From beautiful eggs come little darlings who simply can't work under these conditions.
  • My seeds are sprouting in two wombs

    Hank Pellissier, giver of sperm, is about to receive. Last heard from while contemplating insemination, he's now got a girl coming with the wife and a boy on the way with the lesbian gal pal.
  • Italy mulls assisted fertility law

    Parliament's lower house approves prison terms for human cloning or artificial insemination using donated sperm.
  • Hot Flash: I want your sex

    How ethical is it to choose the sex of your baby, and what does it mean for the future of the human race?
  • I want your sex

    How ethical is it to choose the sex of your baby, and what does it mean for the future of the human race?
  • Confessions of a lesbian sperm donor

  • I'm stuck on you

    Sometimes, love hurts in the strangest places.

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