Men Must Contend With a Biological Clock, Too

Old sperm

'Advancing age does effect male DNA. Men can have children at any age if they have sperm but it won't give them the same genetic qualities as the sperm from a younger male.

A man's biological clock really begins to wind down in the 30s and sperm motility drops .7 % yearly staring at age 22. I already knew sperm count decrease the older we get and we can end up fathering a child with schizophrenia, autism and Down syndrome but I heard nothing about the copy error theory and how over a man’s life, sperm continues to replicate itself and eventually begins to mutate.

Our cells break down and deteriorate as we get older. Therefore, though sperm cells constantly regenerate themselves, as opposed to eggs, the constant turnover of sperm cells lends itself to genetic mutations and a long list of diseases in the children of older fathers. And because our sperm production is so high, males have to keep copying their DNA over and over again to make sperm. The older you are, the more sperm cells have divided and the more divisions, the more chance for a disorder to occur because all this DNA copying leads to small mistakes- mutations. After the age of 30, there is a drop in testosterone of 1 percent a year. Testosterone is the energy, the hormone that you need to make good-quality sperm.....

50 percent to 70 percent of a man's sperm are viable enough to fertilize an egg. This suggests that sperm may be especially vulnerable to environmental toxins, such as exposure to pesticides, excessive heat or toxic chemicals, in addition to constant sperm cell turnover. 'humbledmales

Engagement

Dear Sarah,

It’s good of you to so delicately headline your present status in life: “engaged” and “successful”. This is a critical time and you should be especially on your guard, as even the humblest pescador can tell you that bait will snag the fish, but it often gets away while attempting to reel it onboard. Presently, this is your challenge; i.e., to make sure your fiancé doesn’t get away. There are great hoards of predatory females, “successful” like you, who are intent on offering distraction and sinking their own hook. You see, it’s not only your clock that’s headed for terminus, it’s theirs too. Plus, few females really like working. Having husband, home and baby is far more appealing, and marriage promises some chance of freedom from career drudgery and inane performance reviews.

Retaining the man’s interest is serious business.

There are all sorts of tips and hints about keeping your prospective mate from dithering. I’m sure you’ve seen all those magazines sold at grocery store checkout counters. There’s lots of advice served up on those racks: “Invest in a Good Bra”, “Dr. Tarnauer Gives Diet Tips from the Grave”, “Twelve Steps to Thicker Lips”, “Make Those Brown Eyes Blue”, etc.

Employ cleverness and guile and things might work out for you. You may one day be in a warm home making gooseberry pie for your family, while less secure and less lucky women are trapped in a dreary career.

I say, good luck to you.

Best greetings,

Ronald

Humorous

Dearest Ronald Pruner:

It is apparent to all that you either have the unfortunate circumstance of being one of these vastly older men desperate to justify the urge to go after much younger women no matter how often you are rejected, or perhaps you are starting to see the effects of age in your erectile dysfunction and are hoping to cling to anything that makes you feel as though you are still a virile, potent, strong man. I am sure I am not the first to sadly inform you that you are failing on both fronts.

At first glance, your sentences are formed quite well and your grammar is above average as well. It is only upon reading your words that the black holes of certain parts of your logic and reasoning are apparent.

It is interesting how you suggest that a woman who chooses to follow a different path than the traditional wife and mother roles must have a "God-awful" look. I would be even more interested to see what kind of looks God has graced upon your person, though I imagine I would not be surprised to see a failure in that sector as well. The reason I am confident in this is that an intelligent, successful, confident and secure man would have no reason to go to such great lengths as you to provide reasoning (albeit extremely weak) for women to assume the subservient role of yesteryear lest they be left alone, penniless, and looking rougher for the journey.

One of my favorite sentences in your entertaining blather is the one in which you decide that those women choosing to further their careers and perhaps not bear children have no choice but to end up desperate and in poverty. Au contraire, ma connaissance d'idiot, those women who choose to focus on their careers are more likely to end up accomplished in the professional world and extremely stable financially...but I digress.

Perhaps, rather than attempt to sound intelligent while spewing blatantly self-serving nonsense, you should join some sort of self-help group and work on your confidence and issues (or fears?) of strong, intelligent, successful women. Furthermore, if nature is not allowing you to procreate, for whatever reason, she might just have a good reason for it and this should just be left alone.

Happy grumbling and low self-esteem transference to you ol' chap. Here's hoping things look up for you some way.

all comes down to

Hullo Capt. Obvious. it all boils down to the same thing anyone contemplating parenthood should assess. Can I support a child? Do I want the responsibility? Am I ready physically, emotionally, mentally for whatever I get? It's not just older parents that have the greatest risk of having a disabled or damaged child. You also have to ask: can I deal with being the parent of a college age kid at at 60, 70, 80 or 90? There are tons of reasons that being an older parent is much more risky beyond anything medical.

The posters here saying this is just misplaced, warped or otherwise "schadenfreude feminism" is just a reflexive and symbolic 'covering their genitals for protection.'

It's women whose clock is running out, not men.

This is a study with conclusions pre-ordained by the outraged feminist lobby. Fact is that men can fertilize fecund females at any age, be they past eighty, ninety, or one-hundred and produce healthy, bouncing babies. It's the women who flames out early, and it's the way nature intended. A wise, fecund female seeks out an older, genetically proven male, really the older the better provided he can provide for her and offspring. All this talk about age limitation on male potency and quality is pure fiction.

Western society is about to have the lid blown off of degenerate feminist influence. As the economy implodes, women who have bought into the career-over-marriage-and-offspring dogma will be exposed in great masses to poverty and desperation as they face stark realities alone and without the help of a strong, vital male. A pitiable lot they will be and sorrowful terms like "old maid", "barren spinster" will return to usage. A woman needs a man to survive what life brings.

One needs only to open eyes to the obvious to see how far off track society has gone. Go to a workout gym and one will see that the typical male lifts five times the weight of the typical female on any given exercise. Women aren't the same as men.

One need only to collect portraits and images of notable feminist leaders and see how generally God-awful they look. It's very clear they're all mad at the world for not ever having been asked out on a date. Some of these women have noses that extend beyond their upper lips like a typical artist rendition of a witch. It's quite obvious their work is dedicated to retaliation against men, and the more normal women who are influenced by the sordid feminist campaign are complete fools.

In the early nineteen-hundreds, when the suffragettes were struggling to gain the ominous right to vote for women, one young wag said, "Vote for a suffragette and you'll suffer more than you've ever suffered yet". Yes, and it's the suffragette who suffers most.

DEFECTS

AS YOU GROW OLDER TOXINS ACCUMULATE WITHIN YOUR SYSTEM, PESTICIDES, INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS, TOXINS ETC REACH HIGH LEVELS IN LYMPH LIVER KIDNEYS ETC... I TEND TO BELIEVE THAT THESE INDUSTRIAL WASTES ACCUMULATE OVER TIME, EFFECTING VIRTUALY EVERY SYSTEM WITHIIN THE BODY OVER TIME FLUSH THESE TOXINS, TRY TO EAT ORGANIC EVEN IF ON A BUDGET...RO

Sex requires no IQ

I guess an article like should do some good in curbing todays overpopulation problems. Unfortunately, the very people who shouldn't or should be prevented from having children prob can't read this or simply don't care how their kids come out. You see that's the whole problem with today's society, too many irresponsible people having too many kids who in turn are just like their parents, ha ha. Now the people who read such an article like this who want to plan their children's future would say" Better not have kids because there's a 50/50 chance they'll come out defective if dads sperm is too old" these people are prevented from breeding. Go figure. Just goes prove Gods biggest blunder was to make breeding possible even to complete imbeciles.

rent-a-kids

take your nephews and nieces out or baby sit or volunteer at youth activities - just don't risk having your own because you feel like you are missing something. The combination of resentful unhappy working moms and chemical, public school system, and media induced moronic brats just makes very expensive enemies that live in your house - and even long after they kick you out of it.

I agree kuds are pain and not worth it

I would disagree with dontgetmarried.proboards75.com regarding marriage. I see his point, most American woman are just a waste of time and energy. Find yourself a nice foreign girl not tainted to badly by this femminist crap. If American women want to try and be men, I say let them! Just don't marry them, that's all. I have been married to a lovely latin woman for 15 years, and would never trade her for anything. Take my house, car etc. but you can't have my lovely wife. Now kids on the other hand, don't have them in the US. 1, you want them to have a chance in life, 2, you need to be able to control these little b@stards, and in the US, with the laws stacked against parents, you simply can't.

dontgetmarried.proboards75.com

Just boycott fatherhood. Avoid marriage. Have a vasectomy in your early twenties, have fun till the day you die.

What you earn will be spent for yourself, not for a wife or children. And in the case of a divorce, no alimony, no child support. Total economic freedom.

Children are overrated. Let those who insist children are 'God's gift' do all the breeding.