How can or does pregnancy happen, for real? What do you do if and when you think you or a partner might be pregnant? What are some false beliefs or fears about reproduction that might be stressing you out for no good reason?
Reproduction
Articles and Advice in this area:
Advice
- Heather Corinna
The short answer is that it is techinically possible, but is not likely. The longer answer is that there are a lot of variables, and we still need more study to be done on this to give a better answer. Do we know that pre-ejaculate fluid can contain sperm? Yes, we do. We also know that there are far…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
Yes, she could. As well, the same – and sometimes slightly higher – STI risks are present during menstruation as any other time. For most people who can become pregnant, pregnancy is substantially less likely from intercourse that happens during menses than from intercourse at other times. However…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
This is absolutely, positively, no cause for concern. Sperm can’t live in dried semen, and generally only thrive in moist semen that is outside the body (save in a lab environment where it’s carefully preserved) for about 20 minutes at a maximum. Too, when people with penises urinate, there…
Article
- Heather Corinna
- Isabella Rotman
How a pregnancy happens is a lot more complicated and a whole lot more interesting than just a sperm cell and an egg cell running into each other. Here’s our map to the way there…or not.
