You can keep your
sperm now and use it months or years later when ever you need it or feel like using it. There is nothing extraordinarily new in this concept. There are sperm banks that are doing this for quite some time now. They are doing this mainly for the use of woman whose husbands are not capable of giving them a child. Dr.Iqbal Mehdi, head of Cryogenie says that the facility was initially intended for malignancy patients who undergo chemo or radio therapy and, as a result, often suffer from low sperm count.But of late more young men, at least in India’scapital city Delhi, are choosing to freeze their
sperms to be used when they are ready from their fast track careers to become a parent no matter what their age is. This is partly because of the increasing consciousness among certain segment of the population of the low sperm count and low mortality. Cryogenie, Delhi’s only
commercial sperm bank, finds that almost half of its long term frozen samples of sperm are from young and healthy men who are not ready for procreation and want to use it themselves later instead of going for a donor’s sperm. Sperms are stored in liquid nitrogen at 192 degree Celcius and Cryogenie charges
rupees thousand for the first
sample and two thousand rupees for every sample stored thereafter. This facility is available with them for more than nineteen years but it was only a decade ago that one customer refused to let his sperm be given away to someone else. This was an exceptional behaviour then. But now more young men are keeping their sperms for themselves.Interestingly women are not that keen on
freezing egg and embryo for an instant family in future. Cryogene has samples from two women only.
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