Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title |
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... KAMIKAZE SPERM Beyond the arena of reproductive science, other scientific representations of sperm are being constructed. Particularly salient at this historical moment, given the current crisis in masculinity, is the way sperm ...
... kamikaze sperm hypothesis” (KSH), which suggests that animal ejaculates consist of different types of sperm, each programmed to carry out a specific function. Some, often very few, are “egg-getters,” programmed to attempt to fertilize ...
... kamikaze,” Baker and Bellis provide readers with detailed typologies of each. Egg-getters are thought to be “macros”—sperm with ovalshaped heads that are longer and wider than those of other sperm. In addition to the normal challenges ...
... kamikaze sperm hypothesis, no sperm morph is unaccounted for in the division of labor and the quest to fertilize the egg. Even the old, sedentary, and dying sperm cells can go out with glory by blocking the access of other sperm to the ...
Contents
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The Money Shot in Pornography and Prostitution | 71 |
Sperm Banks and the Crisis of Fatherhood | 92 |
Semen as Evidence | 121 |
The Future of Sperm | 147 |