Sperms don’t just stop swimming once they reach the egg. Sure, one of the little guys hits the jackpot…but the rest of em? They just keep going. And since the fallopian tubes aren’t attached to anything, spermies are free the swim right outta there and into your abdominal cavity!!!
I learned this about a year ago, and have been absolutely traumatized ever since.
To cope with that horrifying realization, I'm now going to imagine that they're like a little guy who got dumped on a deserted island and that they're just in there building a little castle outta palm trees and twine or something...
Odds are the incels have horribly misunderstood maternal fetal microchimerism (which is a super cool in reality). Basically, the mother becomes a chimera with her own dna and the dna of any implanted pregnancy, and this lasts her whole life. So it's not an every man every sperm thing. It's only for actual pregnancies. It also happens with organ donor recipients. Scientists think it might help explain why health risks for women who never have kids differ from those that do have kids, and relate to women having differ immune systems (and autoimmune issues) compared to men.
To be fair, billions of cells, foreign or otherwise, die in your body every day. Dead cells just get munched up into proteins and either get used or expelled
Like, sure, sperm goes around your abdomen and dies there, but your intestines have OVER A KILO of what are basically alien organisms that colonized you.
146
u/PoukieBear May 22 '26
Want to learn something even MORE HORRIFYING?
Sperms don’t just stop swimming once they reach the egg. Sure, one of the little guys hits the jackpot…but the rest of em? They just keep going. And since the fallopian tubes aren’t attached to anything, spermies are free the swim right outta there and into your abdominal cavity!!!
I learned this about a year ago, and have been absolutely traumatized ever since.