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I learned in school that as soon as sperm reaches oxygen it dies. if this is so then how come it doesn't die when u donate sperm in a cup?
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Not to worry...: Sperm are a little more rugged than that. We and many other earthly species would not have survived all these millenia if sperm died at the first breath of fresh air.
Answered 12/9/2013
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