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If sperm got onto your hand, as soon as your hand was dry, would the sperm be dead? like around half an hour or so?
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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 5/2/2023
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Tes. They would die within 10 mts in this situation.
Answered 5/2/2023
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