lock opener MESSAGES * Infertility affects men as well as women * Infertile men stomach stigmatization.

lock opener MESSAGES

* Infertility affects men as well as women

* Infertile men stomach stigmatization.

* Men can preserve themselves and their partners from STIs and possible infertility by dint of practicing abstinence, being faithful to common partner, or using condoms.

"Any man who has no children is considered a dead man."

--Second-century Talmud writings

When a coupling cannot have children, the woman is usually blamed. However, men can be infertile, too--a situation that causes them embarrassment and disappointment.

Infertility affects about 8 percent to 12 percent of the world's population and--in about half of the cases--men are either the single cause of