Sexual function and fertility are not the same thing

Sexual function and fertility are both very important to men. In daily life, many people confuse these two things. Some people believe that the stronger a man's sexual function is, the stronger his fertility is, and it may even be related to whether he will have a boy or a girl. This makes men who are not so satisfied with their sexual function worried and may even cause a crisis.

Simply inferring and associating fertility with the strength of sexual function is a purely self-evaluation and does not correspond to the facts. Everyone knows that men cannot have children without sexual activity, but men who have sexual activity (even those with very strong sexual function) are not necessarily fertile. Among the patients in male clinics, the vast majority of men seeking treatment for infertility have normal sexual function, but they are still troubled by the difficulty of reproducing offspring.

In fact, the strength of sexual function only determines the activeness of men in participating in sexual activities and their performance in the process of sexual activities, and cannot replace fertility. As long as a man has well-developed reproductive organs, a sound sexual psychology, a complete vascular system, normal neuroendocrine activities, and necessary sexual knowledge and sexual skills, he has the basic conditions for normal sexual function. However, for men's fertility, simply having these is not enough. Men's fertility is mainly determined by the number and quality of sperm in the testicles. Only when a man has a certain number (tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions) of sperm with normal morphology and good motility can he have natural fertility.

Therefore, sexual function and fertility are not the same thing. Sexual function is the process of realizing the desire to have children, and is the basic guarantee and premise of men's fertility, while the sperm produced by the testicles is the seed of life and the foundation of men's fertility. It is just like the sowing of seeds by farmers and the flowering and fruiting of seeds. Sowing is just a process, and the fruitful harvest is the credit of the seeds. As for whether to have a boy or a girl, although it can be affected by certain internal and external factors, it is basically a completely natural random choice and has nothing to do with the strength of sexual function.