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How's Your Sex Life?
Great Sex Matters When You're Trying to Conceive
By Jane Merrill
"And as his seed sprang in her, his soul sprang towards her too, in the creative act that is far more than procreative."
– D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
The idea that good sex makes likely conception is widespread in folklore, as is the idea that a woman potentially knows very soon after intercourse if she's conceived – much sooner than could be verified by objective tests.
Most people in the medical field are completely skeptical, but consider the perspective of an expert on sexual health at the top of his profession, Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, Harvard Medical School professor and author of The Viagra Myth (Jossey-Bass, 2003). "Biologically, the whole purpose of good sex as we know it is to make the chances of pregnancy increase," he says. "We know for a fact that women do not need to have an orgasm to become pregnant. However, when a man goes for semen analysis, if he obtains a semen sample during sex, it will be far better than in the lab washroom. This indicates clearly on the man's side that men do have considerably greater amounts of fluid ejaculated when they are more aroused."
Circumstantial evidence seems to point to the idea that you are more likely to get pregnant if you feel the sex. Ask your gynecologist if the quality of sex relates to conception and you'll probably hit a steel wall, as I did initially, researching this topic. A candid doctor acquaintance of mine who has delivered thousands of babies in my town said merely, "It would be nice." In the end, doctors talked to me about everything from timing, ovular temperature and menstrual cycles to egg meets sperm in the fallopian tubes.
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Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous-GG on 11/16/2009 08:18AM
im having fun trying to get pregnant this yr. as advised by my OB a woman should not be stress.
Re: How's Your Sex Life? by trying so hard on 11/11/2009 03:57PM
Good but it's frustrating the whole timing and feeling like it's a chore suckswe need to relax and have FUN baby making and we need to make it about us and our closeness instead of putting pressure on each other. . . my husband swears he is NOT fertile because he is an ex-addict and thinks he can't have babies but I told him not to stress and just relax so WE HOPE THERE IS A MIRACLE IN STORE FOR US good luck to everyone! :) Ultimately HAVE FUN
Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 11/10/2009 07:36PM
Sex Sex Sex, no babies for me....
Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 11/10/2009 12:16PM
Ight but worried
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Re: How's Your Sex Life? by Evelyn on 11/18/2009 03:20AM
its good,i've been trying 2 get preggers for a year and nothing sometimes i get mad that we have not gotten preggers i even get a little board when we do it but not in the bad way but in the way that cause of our religion we can't do many positions so we have traditional sex.... does a guy's age matter to have a baby??? help!!!!! i am young and last year i was a virgin but now that i have sex i love it but i'm not obbcessed with it.. we used to do it every day but now its day in a half one day yes one no ect...