Banking on your sperm for fertility and the next generation

What do you do if you are old enough to get married and you've decided to wait for the right moment, but the right moment hasn't arrived yet and you think you are fast getting old for a healthy fertility?

Answer: store your sperm for potential future use, should something terrible happen to you... accidents, premature death, ED or other worst-case scenarios.

Storing sperm are also crucial for people who have a high-risk occupation, or are undergoing chemotherapy, surgery for testicular or prostate cancer or a vasectomy.

But, storing sperm for fertility or other health reasons can be very expensive and tiring.

You think it’s easy to get your wife pregnant all the time? Sometimes yes. But most of the time, after looking at the numbers, it seems surprisingly hit-or-miss.

So, if you are not the 'sharp-shooter' who always misses the bulls-eye, then it's time to visit the sperm bank. A sperm banking keeps a stock of sperm from a donor so that women may have the choice of additional children from the same donor.

First of all you need to find a sperm bank in your country where you need to store or 'freeze' them. The next step is to go for a health check, 4 days prior your visit to the bank to be tested free from STD and this will cost you some money.

Cost of initial consult: US$100-150
Cost of STD lab panel: US$150-200

You also need to abstain from sex and masturbation 48 hrs but no more than four days before each 'session'. If you keep more than four days, dead sperm cells begin to accumulate and cause trouble, as you need a certain ratio of live sperm to dead sperm per 1 cc (cubic centimeter) of volume.

At the bank, you have to 'do it yourself' until you can ejaculate for 6 times (you should make six sperm deposits for each child you’d like to have). Why six times? -- 50%+ of your sperm count is annihilated from the freezing (or storing) process.

The sperm deposit is then transferred into vials which are stored (frozen) in liquid nitrogen for at least six months before being made available for use.

Cost per sample frozen: US$150-200 (x 6 = US$900 – 1,200 per potential kid)
Cost per year: US$300 – 600 (often for all samples)

In Malaysia, the Gleneagles Medical Centre Penang has the facilities for sperm banking and fertility treatment.

Well, unless you're in China (Shanghai) where they have pretty girls to give you a 'hand job'. At the Shanghai Sperm Bank, the girls were reportedly willing to go that extra mile to give you a hand! But in this case, those guys in the pic are not there for storing reasons, they could be there for donations or simply being paid for their sperm (or just having fun getting a free hand-job). The website purportedly said that these donors are getting paid RMB200 (US$30) at the end of each session.

Anyway, if you think this story is true, then read this:

Shanghai Sperm Bank Denies "Helping Hand" Rumor

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Beating your meat, flicking the bean: Some facts about masturbation

According to many religion, masturbation is forbidden. In Islam, many ulama' (Islamic scholars) considers it as haraam.

But fact is, most people do it — and yet they worry about doing it either due to their religious faith or out of conscience towards their physical and mental health, as many believe masturbation is unhealthy.

But most people are unwilling to masturbate just because they are embarrassed if they are caught doing it or if other people knew they are doing it.

Nonetheless, there are a lot of myths out there that masturbation is unhealthy, dangerous and so on.

Click on the pic (right) to learn some interesting facts about Masturbation.

Source: Facts About Masturbation (Infographic)

Read the discussion on the topic: here

Slang terms for masturbation

Bercerai sebab ibu mer'gas'tuaku dan perut buncit?

Datuk Aminah Abdul Rahman









In conservative Malaysia, married couples are accustomed to the term ‘Monsters-in-law' (or ibu mergastuaku), meaning the bothersome mother-in-law meddling in their sons/daughters family affairs.

This problematic factor was known to be among the main reasons of divorce here. Read the Star's article ‘Monsters-in-law’ among main causes of divorce dated 26 May, 2009.

This phenomenon is not only significant in Malay family divorces as was superbly portrayed in P. Ramlee's 1962 movie-drama Ibu Mertuaku, it was also cited as the the main reason for Indian couples divorce.

The 2004 study by the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN) showed that meddlesome in-laws are the main reason couples divorce. Two other factors were incompatibility (42.3%) and infidelity (12%).

"Interference of in-laws is the main reason why Indians divorce. It is the top ranked reason at 30%," said LPPKN Director General Datuk Aminah Abdul Rahman.

Among Malays, the second most common reason for a divorce is infidelity and a refusal to put up with polygamy (enggan dimadukan), the study said. Nonetheless, infidelity appeared to be tolerated among the Chinese.

"The Chinese considered infidelity the least crucial reason to demand for a divorce", she said.

Another overall reason that ranked high among the three races at 11.5% is ‘not being responsible'.


In another related news, as was reported in Utusan Malaysia today (9.03.2010), Minister in Prime Minister's Department, Datuk T. Murugiah said other reasons why couples divorce are about their partners being too fat (obesity) and having bad breath.

He said, the random study done by the Public Complaints Bureau (BPA) found that these factors were not only applicable to women. Men were also said neglecting their personal hygiene such as having pot belly, bad breath, not brushing their teeth or other poor physical traits resulting in their wives to reject them.

Murugiah also pointed out that the percentage of divorce has risen to about 22% since a few years back and is expected to increase in the future.

He stressed that the best way to keep divorces at bay was for couples to keep healthy and attend courses on how to be a complete man or woman.

Hmmm... so, for us men@husbands, better go check the measurement of our tummies before our wives petition for divorce...women too (excluding pregnant@mothers-to-be).

So what's the standard tummy measurement for men and husbands-to-be now?