Couples having trouble conceiving a child might want to have “gourmet sex.” That’s the advice of reproductive physiology expert Dr. Johanna Ellington.
“Couples who are trying to have a baby often mention that the sex becomes a bit of a chore, a bit mechanical,” says Dr. Allen Pacey, researcher at Sheffield University in Great Britain. “That’s the wrong thing to be doing.”
Instead, says Pacey, couples should indulge in wild, uninhibited “gourmet” sex. “Sex should be as thrilling as it was when they first met, when they weren’t thinking about babies, to give them the maximum possible chance of having a baby.”
According to Pacey, the number of sperm a man produces during intercourse increases up to 50 percent when he is enjoying gourmet sex. The extra sperm are of higher quality than those produced during ordinary sex, and more high-grade sperm mean a greater chance of conception.
“The better the sex, the better the chances of conception,” says Ellington in the television program “The Great Sperm Race.” “One of the things that men don’t realize is that the more excited they are, the further back in the testicle they are going to draw on reserves. So if you have what I call ‘gourmet sex,’ where you really spend time and you make it fun for both partners, that is going to make the man more stimulated and he is going to ejaculate more and healthier sperm.”
Gourmet sex also enhances the woman’s fertility. “When a woman experiences an orgasm, we think the intensity of the muscular contractions she has during the big pressure changes going on in her body helps to pull or suck up the sperm into her cervix and from there into the uterus,” Pacey says.
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