file.newsgroup.med.59326 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Jennifer Scheiber)
Subject: Re: Pregnency without sex?
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Kenneth Gilbert) writes:
>In article [email protected] (Stephen Montgomery-Smith) writes:
>:When I was a school boy, my biology teacher told us of an incident
>:in which a couple were very passionate without actually having
>:sexual intercourse. Somehow the girl became pregnent as sperm
>:cells made their way to her through the clothes via persperation.
>:
>:Was my biology teacher misinforming us, or do such incidents actually
>:occur?
>
>Sounds to me like someone was pulling your leg. There is only one way for
>pregnancy to occur: intercourse. These days however there is also
>artificial insemination and implantation techniques, but we're speaking of
>"natural" acts here. It is possible for pregnancy to occur if semen is
>deposited just outside of the vagina (i.e. coitus interruptus), but that's
>about at far as you can get. Through clothes -- no way. Better go talk
>to your biology teacher.
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>= Kenneth Gilbert __|__ University of Pittsburgh =
>= General Internal Medicine | "...dammit, not a programmer!" =
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what is the likely hood of conception if sperm is deposited just outside
the vagina? ie. __% chance.
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