chugging microplastics instead of getting a vasectomy
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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.
There's lots of different ways to measure sperm health and ultimately sperm count isn't really that much of an impediment to eventually knocking someone up, unless it's very very low - see this study graph
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.
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Let's get that to 100%, no more cum
less westoids?
less protein.
People with a breeding kink in shambles rn
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):
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
Real
And so long as it came from a willing partner, it's also vegan.
Now this is the type of posting I log into hexbear for
Wow, sure is good to see someone work out their pseudoscientific misogyny kink on NATOpedia.
Damn shrinkflation.
I've always wanted to live Children of Men....
the US desperately needs a Department of Semen Retrieval
Those are rookie numbers! We need to get those numbers even lower!
More like Mission Nocumplished
I don't think whoever came on that banana is part of the problem.
the west has fallen
I'm doing my part! 
Oh I love you all so much. I read the title, saw 33 comments and my first thought was "shit, someone's probably being weird in the comments, talking about how actually, for real, this is an important problem (it isn't)". Then I get in here and it's all jokes, except for one possible debunking of the article.
Thanks for brightening my day by not buying into "muh birthrates!!1!!!" nonsense!
I wonder if it tastes the same.
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