How Many Sperm Does One Man Need?

Raising Your Sperm Count According to the research of Danish endocrinologist Niels Skakkebaek, sperm counts of men in the United States and twenty other countries have fallen dramatically over the last half century – by as much as 50 percent. The cause of this precipitous decline is still being debated, and possible culprits range from tight underwear to chemical pollutants. In reporting on the environmental dangers that seem at least partly to blame, University of Florida researcher Louis Guillette told a panel of U.S. Congressmen, "Every man in this room is half the man his grandfather divas." Low sperm counts are a major reason that couples have difficulty conceiving a child. Given the declining sperm counts, it may not come as a surprise that infertility is an increasing problem worldwide. The World Health Organization has reported that one in ten couples are involuntarily infertile. In the United States, a staggering one in six couples is infertile – twice as many as ten years ago. It is worth mentioning that infertility is a vague and imprecise diagnosis that, like impotence has a tendency to become stigmatized. More to the point, this diagnosis of infertility is simply made after a certain amount of time has passed (usually a year of unprotected intercourse) without conception. According to one medical textbook, “Pregnancy is the only irrefutable proof of the sperm's capability to fertilize.” You are diagnosed as infertile until you conceive. Guilty until proven innocent! So even if you have a low sperm count, you may still be able to conceive a child. Problems in ovulation are also a significant cause of infertility, and if there is no egg to fertilize, it doesn’t matter how many sperm you have. Nevertheless, if there is an egg, the more sperm you have, the better the chances of your partner getting pregnant. Though only one sperm finally joins with the egg, all the sperm actually work together to get through the uterus and fallopian tubes and fertilize the egg. If you have a low sperm count, you will be relieved to know that there are Sexual Kung Fu exercises you can use to help raise it. Engaging in nonejaculatory sex is the most important thing you can do to increase the volume, concentration, and count of your sperm. According to Western medical research, each day you do not ejaculate, you raise your sperm count by 50 to 90 million sperm. In addition to storing up your sperm, you can help your testicles produce more by shaking, massaging, and tapping them. When our testicles were able to swing freely (before tight underwear and pants), they rubbed together and against our thighs naturally, but now that we sit most of the day and spend very little time running through the jungle naked, we must help them. You can stand with pants that are loose in the crotch and shake your testicles up and down. Then rock your lumbar region and sacrum left and right and forward and back (this will help bring blood to your genital area). The Testicle Massage exercise described earlier in this chapter is also quite effective – especially step 4, which involves tapping your testicles.