Problems With Male Infertility

Problems With Male Infertility
Many people assume that having children is something all
people have the capacity to do, when they choose to. Most
of the efforts related to conception arguably involve
preventing conception from occurring to begin with. The
thinking seems to be conceiving children can always happen.
This however is not the case. There are any number of
people who would like to conceive a child but cannot. This
inability to produce offspring is often referred to as
infertility.

Contrary to what some males may believe, male infertility
can and does occur. Male infertility can be especially
difficult for a man to cope with from an emotional
perspective as general stereotypes of men as vital and
vigorous sexual beings often persist. When a man is unable
to produce a child, it can be seen as a direct failure of
the male to live up to expected standards. The term
impotent for example typically refers to males, not
females, who are unable to conceive children because of a
sexual dysfunction. At its root, the word impotent refers
to one who lacks potency, or strength. An impotent man then
may literally be considered a man who lacks strength. Most
men would likely consider it an insult for someone to refer
to them as being weak.

There are various causes of male infertility, but typically
male infertility comes down to one of two causes: an
inability to perform sexual intercourse, or nonfunctional
semen. The performance of sexual intercourse, thought not
absolutely vital, is the typical means for producing
offspring. When a couple is unable to have sexual
intercourse at all then, there's obviously going to be
problems with conception. While women can have difficulty
with intercourse, they may still be sexually functional. A
male who isn't functional sexually will find it highly
difficult, if not impossible, to have intercourse under any
means.

Males may generally take their ability to produce healthy
semen for granted, but the male's ability to produce semen
that is capable of fertilization can be compromised. There
are any number of ways that a man's semen can lose its
capacity to fertilize. An obvious way would be through a
vasectomy, a sterilizing surgical procedure. Physical
trauma to the testicles can also damage semen output, as
can excessive heat in the area of the testicles. Studies
suggest that smoking cigarettes can also damage semen and
potentially make a male infertile.

While the reasons for male infertility can and do vary,
infertility solutions for both men and women do exist. The
issue of infertility is broad enough that there are medical
facilities that treat infertility and nothing else. Some
men who are infertile may not consider their infertility to
be a problem. Those men who are infertile and do consider
it a problem have treatment options available, and should
seek them out.

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