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From: [email protected] (Philippe Lebrun)
Subject: Re: Pregnency without sex?
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?
Sperm deposited near the entrance of the vagina has been known to cause
pregnancy, even in the presence of a hymen. I doubt that sperm could make
it through a layer of cloth then find the right path to a waiting ovum,
but it might be possible.
So, it is possible for a woman to be both virgin and pregnant.
Also, some hymens are sufficiently loose to allow near-normal intercourse
without rupturing. The problem when investigating these phenomenae is,
of course, getting an honest account of what exactly happened.
-philippe