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Apr. 22nd, 2010 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaAlex, apropos of absolutely nothing, on the way to school: What happens to the rest of the sperm?
Me: ...
Me: ...Oh, you mean after one joins with the egg to start growing a baby? The rest of them just kind of die and come out of the mom's body. They're so super tiny that you couldn't see them, though.
Alex: Can you smell them?
Me: No. (Semen has a smell, but not sperm. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.)
Alex: Maybe, when a baby boy is nursing, the mom gives him the leftover sperm.
Me: No. The mom's body doesn't have any sperm to pass on.
Alex: What about when the baby was just born?
Me: Not even then. Even by the time the baby just starts to grow inside the mom, the leftover sperm is already gone.
She went on to ask a lot of very detailed questions about what sperm look like. And whether the first people were born from sperm and an egg. Not to mention monkeys. Where did this all come from?
Me: ...
Me: ...Oh, you mean after one joins with the egg to start growing a baby? The rest of them just kind of die and come out of the mom's body. They're so super tiny that you couldn't see them, though.
Alex: Can you smell them?
Me: No. (Semen has a smell, but not sperm. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.)
Alex: Maybe, when a baby boy is nursing, the mom gives him the leftover sperm.
Me: No. The mom's body doesn't have any sperm to pass on.
Alex: What about when the baby was just born?
Me: Not even then. Even by the time the baby just starts to grow inside the mom, the leftover sperm is already gone.
She went on to ask a lot of very detailed questions about what sperm look like. And whether the first people were born from sperm and an egg. Not to mention monkeys. Where did this all come from?
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Date: 2010-04-22 04:21 pm (UTC)