Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title |
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... women's self-help movement. Their mission statement and governing values actively resist the trends of corporate America. As a budding sociologist, I decided to approach TSBC to see if I could do an on-site study of the organization, or ...
... women consciously trying to conceive, I became preoccupied with the stereotypical images of sperm swimming fast and furiously against great obstacles to penetrate my elusive egg. In my journal, I wrote: Each time I am inseminated, I ...
... women our relationship to semen is markedly different from what it is for men; boys and men are far more intimately acquainted with the substance than are girls and women. Perhaps no relationship is more shrouded in secrecy than that ...
... women, in terms of both their gender and their sexuality. This hypervisibility of stories about semen reminds us that, of course, these cells are integral to human life, but they are something more, too. They are “little soldiers,” the ...
... women than to men, as women can now control and be protected from sperm in ways that were previously not available. As New York Times writer Jennifer Egan put it in a recent article, “Buying sperm over the Internet . . . is not much ...
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 |