“Raising well-informed, respectful men who understand their sexual health while reproductive health care is in jeopardy feels more critical than ever,” argues health entrepreneur lesliejz in a guest essay for The Economist
NFERTILITY AFFECTS one in six couples, and for half of those, the problem lies with the male partner. Sperm is on the decline. Its concentration and count—the number of sperm per millilitre of semen and the total number of sperm in an ejaculate—has dropped by more than 50% on average in Western countries since the 1970s.
I have interviewed fertility experts around the world and discovered just how little most people know about this topic. The fertility industry’s marketing only targets women and reminds them of their biological clocks, partly because the word sperm is banned on many ad platforms. But men experience age-related fertility decline starting at 35, too.
Boys get even less reproductive health education than girls, and are often told that men don’t complain about health problems. The result is that many men avoid seeking help until an issue is too big or painful to ignore and male fertility problems go untreated, since, most of the time, symptoms are mild. Urology deals with the urinary tract and andrology addresses infertility, but there is no medical specialty that proactively manages men’s reproductive health as gynaecology does for women.
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