My boyfriend is convinced he's shooting blanks because he's never had a scare with a girl before and he didn't use any kind of protection with girls... Basically ever.
Did he at use withdrawal? Is he sure that none of his partners were taking oral contraceptives, or using FAM, and didn't tell him? Might a coincidental number of his partners had a condition like PCOS that can impair their fertility? Were most of his partners short-term, or occasional sex, or were there lengthy periods of regular sex with a partner?
At any rate, though it's always possible your partner may have a low sperm count, lack of a pregnancy scare doesn't necessarily mean he's shooting blanks. If there has truly been no contraception used ever, then he may have a low sperm count... or he may just be lucky.
Look at it this way: 15% of women won't conceive over the course of a full year of regular sex with no contraception, so there is some reasonable statistical probability that one could have regular sex with repeated partners and never see a pregnancy scare.
Add to that the fact that as many as 50% of conceptions are miscarried so early in the pregnancy that most women don't think it's anything other than a normal period, and I wouldn't take lack of babies as any reliable indicator of lack of fertility.
As far as I know, other than obtaining a sperm count directly from a medical professional there's no real way to verify that.
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Date: 2007-10-14 10:16 am (UTC)Did he at use withdrawal? Is he sure that none of his partners were taking oral contraceptives, or using FAM, and didn't tell him? Might a coincidental number of his partners had a condition like PCOS that can impair their fertility? Were most of his partners short-term, or occasional sex, or were there lengthy periods of regular sex with a partner?
At any rate, though it's always possible your partner may have a low sperm count, lack of a pregnancy scare doesn't necessarily mean he's shooting blanks. If there has truly been no contraception used ever, then he may have a low sperm count... or he may just be lucky.
Look at it this way: 15% of women won't conceive over the course of a full year of regular sex with no contraception, so there is some reasonable statistical probability that one could have regular sex with repeated partners and never see a pregnancy scare.
Add to that the fact that as many as 50% of conceptions are miscarried so early in the pregnancy that most women don't think it's anything other than a normal period, and I wouldn't take lack of babies as any reliable indicator of lack of fertility.
As far as I know, other than obtaining a sperm count directly from a medical professional there's no real way to verify that.