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If your hand contains sperm and you touch various thing like phone, door, clothes and then your hand become dry from touching these things .does the sperm lose its mobility and doesnt become fertile and die ?
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Sperm are fragile. They are formed with limited energy reserves that can sustain their life only inside the moist body temperature environment of the female genitals after they are emitted. Exposure to the air/drying/all inactivate or kill sperm within a few minutes.
Answered 1/21/2023
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Yes the sperms die if more than 10 mts after ejaculation
Answered 1/23/2023
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