Used in medical or scientific discussions about reproduction and fertility.

Medical Context

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Sensitive Topic

In law, 'semen' can be a form of evidence in cases of sexual assault or paternity disputes.

Legal Evidence

 no common language or anything, so it's not an idea that spread, it's an idea that's arisen around the world -- they believe that a fetus is literally made of accumulated semen. So a woman who wants to have a child who's smart and funny and strong makes sure she has lots of sex with the smart guy, the funny guy and the strong guy,

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 With no living males and no females able to carry a pregnancy, this is a complicated and risky process to say the least. Though scientists had stored semen, they would have to collect the eggs— a complex procedure that requires a female to be sedated for up to two hours.

The last living members...

 Semen is relatively basic, so it can disrupt the vagina’s pH. Tight, non-breathable, and wet garments incubate moisture and are thought to facilitate a more Candida-friendly environment. Soaps can damage the protective mucus that coats the vagina,

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 Very heavy hetero guy. But he wrote in this book, "Ideal Marriage" -- he said that he could differentiate between the semen of a young man, which he said had a fresh, exhilarating smell, and the semen of mature men, whose semen smelled, quote,

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 and in rats, an absence of sperm in the testicular tubules as well. And of course, we don't do these experiments in humans, but just by coincidence, my colleague has shown that men who have low sperm count, low semen quality

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 and I was even asked to wash my clothes on a hotter setting. This wasn't head lice, y'all. This wasn't scabies. This was HIV. It can be transmitted through blood, sexual fluids like semen or vaginal fluids and breast milk.

Our treatment of HIV has...

 Excess steroid use can also reduce fertility in males and females— by reducing the sperm in semen or by causing missed periods and conditions like polycystic ovary syndrome.

How do steroids affect...

 artificially inseminated because the male she had the hots for is not a good genetic match but rocky is his semen is about to be collected using an artificial vagina

The 'George Clooney' Of...

 basically a sperm machine either spur machine absolutely it's very early in the morning for the semen is now collected is in the artificial vagina and from there we

Meet the Super Cow PIPE...

 it's very early in the morning for the semen is now collected is in the artificial vagina and from there we will process the semen in order to be able to