Or so says a new book by Dr. Harry Fisch entitled, Size Matters: The Hard Facts About Male Sexuality That Every Woman Should Know.
In a Q&A published in  Saturday’s Calgary Herald
Urologist Dr. Fisch shared some info from the book he co-authored with Kara Baskin. Some of the pertinent points from the doc include:
“penis size doesn’t vary as much as people think. The average is 5.4 inches. Most men are between four and six inches. When you have less than three inches, then that’s a real problem fertility-wise — it’s too small of a penis to actually reach the cervix.”
“the larger …read more

You already know that I love the organization called Fertile Hope.
Fertile Hope is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing reproductive information, support and hope to cancer patients and survivors whose medical treatments present the risk of infertility.
Fertile Hope helped me realize that there were options available to me, even though I spent my entire adult life assuming I was infertile and that was that. Had Fertile Hope existed when I was just beginning my cancer treatments twenty years ago, I would have even more fertility options open to me.
Luckily, Fertile Hope exists now. And it has joined forces with …read more

When I was little and had a cold, my mom would crush baby aspirin into applesauce (just a spoonful of sugar….) to help the medicine go down. Lately, I’ve been finding myself singing that Mary Poppins tune as I surreptitiously slip pumpkin seeds into just about every meal I make. Why?
A few months ago I wrote a post on “Fertile Foods” and mentioned that increasing one’s intake of zinc and folic acids is said to increase sperm count. Pumpkin seeds are small, versatile (can be use in sweet or savory dishes), and a great source of zinc and other goodness, …read more

The Economic Times reports today that Laptops May Affect Male Fertility. More specifically, resting your heat-generating laptop on your lap (exactly like I am doing right now) raises the risk of infertility in men.
Prof Sheynkin and his fellow researchers at the State University of New York came to the conclusion after studying 29 healthy young men aged between 21 and 35 for two, one-hour sessions in a climate-controlled room.
Now here’s where I wonder if participants really knew what study they were signing up for:
The men’s scrotal temperature was recorded every three minutes. The temperature on the …read more