16/03/2026
Involuntary childlessness affects both women and men.
Infertility and involuntary childlessness are predominantly framed as a women’s issue. Yet male factors such as low s***m count, poor s***m motility (the ability of s***m to travel swiftly and in a straight line) or the absence of s***m play a role in about half of infertility cases. About 7 per cent of men are clinically infertile and male infertility is on the rise. Research suggests that s***m counts globally halved between 1973 and 2018, with an increasingly sharp decline since 2000 — with lifestyle and environmental factors being blamed, for example the high consumption of ultra-processed foods and the endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in certain plastics.
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