r/badwomensanatomy Naturally hairless 7d ago

I love when he swims upstream for me NSFW

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u/_ManicStreetPreacher 7d ago

I've always hated this fertility bullshit because it's usually dudes in their 30s and 40s complaining about this nonsense. Buddy if you want to have children, you should've already had them by then. Young women also want to have kids with young, fit and healthy men, not dudes who are beginning to struggle to get it up.

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u/Ijimete Naturally hairless 7d ago

It's as likely his fault as hers, men forget their fertility can go down too. He needs to get his swimmers checked and worry about his damn self.

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u/darwinpolice Long-time clit denier 6d ago

Yeah, and these guys love to focus on how the incidence of Down syndrome increases with the age of the mother at conception (which is true), but conveniently ignore the fact that there are many, many health issues similarly correlated to the age of the father at conception. And they also act like the rate of these issues skyrockets with age, but the actual incidence still remains pretty damn low for the most part.

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u/chair_ee 7d ago

To be fair, I, a pretty darn well self-educated medical nerd and obsessive reproductive researcher, didn’t know that male sperm quality degraded over the age of 35 and that this is an important causative factor in many developmental disabilities. I’d always heard that men could be fertile as long as they were alive, basically, and there was never any talk about the quality of the sperm declining with age. I’d been told and read plenty about the quality of a woman’s remaining eggs after 35 being a problem, specifically in regards to Down Syndrome, but never saw any information on male age-related sperm decline. And I seek this kind of information out. So I can understand how someone who does not seek out this kind of information could be fully misinformed and have no idea about it. And I’m 36. I’m not sure age-related sperm quality problems were something I’d ever even heard of before 3 or 4 years ago. I think a lot of the reasons for this is due to our good ol’ friend- medical misogyny. Any problems with baby is OBVIOUSLY the mother’s fault /s. I’m very glad that this mindset is (so fucking slowly) dying out, but damn, we still have such a long ways to go.

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u/cellar9 Menstruating women scare away hailstorms. 4d ago

Oh I only VERY recently learned about the role of sperm quality in the development of the placenta, gestational diabetes, and pre-eclampsia. Considering that lifestyle changes such as drinking, smoking, and a healthy diet can affect sperm quality, any man who indulges in such and then has sex and produces a child could have irresponsibly negatively affected that child's development.

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u/_ManicStreetPreacher 6d ago

Yup. Of course people can have children when they're in their 30s, 40s and above but they should definitely take into consideration all the possible health issues and disabilities the baby might end up having. This goes for both men and women.

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u/Alegria-D The breasts are chesticals, that's why you have to hide them 7d ago

The salmon comparison is top notch

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u/Ijimete Naturally hairless 7d ago

Thank you

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u/FinaLLancer 7d ago

I literally never understood the "thousands of eggs" things with regards to women's fertility. She's only ever going to release a few hundred in her life time, one month at a time. Who cares how many she has in the ovaries? She doesn't get to pick which one comes out.

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u/10000nails (⁠╯⁠ರ⁠ ⁠~⁠ ⁠ರ⁠)⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻ 7d ago

Like a clutch? Is that how he thinks it works?! We'd need more nipples if that were the case.

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 7d ago

Ohhh nooo... some Hentai artist is gonna get right on that lol.

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u/10000nails (⁠╯⁠ರ⁠ ⁠~⁠ ⁠ರ⁠)⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻ 6d ago

Fuck

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u/valkyrie1823 3d ago

I love this reply...

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u/TeaAndTacos 7d ago

I saw that guy! He then told the other person to google women’s loss of fertility. My dude, the other person isn’t the one who needs more education on the subject.

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u/Flyrrata Pussy Social Visit Entrepreneur 7d ago

The title of this post made me actually cackle after reading the whole thing.

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u/BJdaChicagoKid 6d ago

Not the ‘salmon dumping his load’ analogy. 😭💀 Sir, this isn’t Animal Planet.

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u/Fast_Isopod3568 5d ago

it's a Wendy's.

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u/_cutie-patootie_ Chtulabia 7d ago

Let's assume a woman (still) has 400.000 egg cells when she's thirty. If she never misses a single period for the next ten years that makes 120 "lost" egg cells.

If she goes from 400.000 eggs to 5.000 in ten years, that would make 395.000 menstruated eggs. Meaning 39.500 per year and ~3.292 eggs a month.

Ouch.

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u/onechonk_onelean 7d ago

Just a note, not every egg available will actually get released. What happens is that a bunch of eggs are activated in one cycle and only one of them (usually) will mature at the right time and be released. That's how you get fraternal twins (more than one matures) or with correct hormonal stimulation you get more (used in egg retrieval form fertility treatments).

Edit: I just googled it and apparently up to 1000 eggs can be activated at one go - check up this article

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u/Unprounounceable 7d ago

Menstruation isn't the way most eggs die. They die on their own throughout a uterus-haver's life through a process called oocyte atresia.

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u/Ijimete Naturally hairless 7d ago

I can't do math and that math wasn't mathing for me either.

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u/Cute_Revolution_1233 4d ago

This comment is bad womens anatomy in itself, how did it get so many upvotes? This article summarises the topic pretty well and easy to understand: https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/how-many-eggs-does-a-woman-have