The decline in sperm counts is a growing concern worldwide, with rates plummeting by as much as 52% since the 1970s. This alarming trend has far-reaching implications for human health and reproduction, raising questions about the future of fertility and the potential consequences for individuals, families, and society as a whole.
Wasn’t this a result of a change in measurement technique, and these articles are just comparing the two datasets as if they’re direct equivalents? I remember seeing an explainer about this like a year ago.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41585-022-00626-w
17 August 2022 - Spatiotemporal trends in human semen quality
Overall, available data do not enable us to conclude that human semen quality is deteriorating worldwide or in the Western world, but that a trend is observed in some specific areas. To understand these trends and contrasts in sperm and semen quality, prospective studies should be encouraged and combined with assessment of the male exposome.
It’s the globohomo! The DEI department of Dow Chemical has been running things behind the scenes this whole time and now white men can’t come!
so fucking cursed why am I posting this
Is sperm the part of semen that has the protein, if it does?? Is it just weird nothing goo nutritionally otherwise?
The part without the sperm is called seminal plasma, and its contents are the following (just remove the testes' contribution since that's what provides the sperm):
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So it does have quite alot of nutrition even without the sperm, most notably protein (even without sperm), vitamin C, and sugars
Also this is a thing apparently
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And so long as it came from a willing partner, it's also vegan.
Wow, sure is good to see someone work out their pseudoscientific misogyny kink on NATOpedia.
Those are rookie numbers! We need to get those numbers even lower!
"THIS IS BECAUSE OF WOKE!"
less westoids?
less protein.
