Male Infertility: What?
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2003 Mar / Apr VOL V NO 2.
Dr Manu Kothari
Dr Lopa Mehta
Hear, Nature hear! Dear Goddess hear!!
Suspend thy purpose, if thou did not intend.
To make this creature fruitful.
Into his testis put sterility.
Or dry up his ways to deliver.
And from his derogate body never spring.
A babe to continue his name.
(modified from William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Act I, Sc. iv, Line 297)
A sterile man, truly speaking, is potent but fruitless. So
true sterility rules out male sexual dysfunction, loss of libido, or in short,
the inability to satisfy the sexual urge in him and/or her. Such a strange
combination of potency pumithis no productivity is a problem plaguing many a man
hankering for a babe to be born of his balls.
The foregoing raises the delicate question of how many
fertile fathers or men are truly so, for it is generally known that when a man
declares that he is the father, it is more knowledge (right or wrong) whereas,
when a woman says she is the mother, it is direct experience. The masculine
pride could often be fiction whereas the feminine counterpart is a fact. So in
the world, the truly sterile men must be greater in number then those attending
the infertility clinic.
Male infertility is a problem quantitative and/or qualitative. He may produce and deposit good quality sperms that are so few in number as not to reach the spot of rendezvous with the ovum in the fallopian tube or there may be additional problem of his throwing out poor quality of sperms, that nature in its inscrutable wisdom, does not allow to consummate the task of fertilizing an ovum. It adds to the burden on the society of greater number of abortions or malformed babies. So often sterile men should succumb to the wisdom of nature and not add to the number of humans who, in the telling words of the biologist Sir Julian Huxley, has turned into a cancer of the planet Earth. It’s a travesty of justice that whereas there are so many orphans waiting to be adopted, medical sciences is conquering one obstacle after another to provide a baby to the sterile.
Be as it, may, sterile parents, especially males, need not worry, for there are a number of ways in whcih the person’s own good sperm can meet the ovum. Or a sperm can be quietly or openly borrowed to make the mother pregnant and the father too pregnant, but with the satisfaction of being a father to the child born off his dear wife or girl friend. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, male or female. So does pregnancy spring eternally from the genital area male or female. The number of frustrated sterile fathers is on the deadline.
To top it all, is the success with cloning that started off with a bang with Dolly and now has extended to rats and rams. A day is not far when the Brave New World that Aldous Huxley dreamt off and penned as a book, writes to promise a "sterile" man of being fertile just by giving the diploid nucleus from his skin, burral mucus or even a leuzocyte. All that the ovum demands of the sperm is to join the diploid of ovum with haploidy of sperm to provide to the cytoplasm of the ovum, a diploid nucleus. In the absence of the male providing the sperm, the ovum can be asked to dispense with it’s own original haploid nucleus from any of the somatic cells of the male. In 1967, Coppleson and Ried, two gynecologists of Australia, jointly conceived and delivered the idea that cervical cancer is the outcome of the sperm causing fertilization of the lining of the cervix, and they called this the somatic fertilization giving rise to cancers, Now this concept is dead but it has come full circle by the nucleus of the somatic cell of the male turning the enucleated ovum into one with a diploid nucleus, and presto, you have a babe female or male the way you want and in as large a number as you want. That’s how the pioneer book, now outdated, on this was ‘In His Image’, wherein there is a tycoon, who leaves behind many of his somatic cells from which, given suitable array of ova, a whole battalion of Dolly’s or their male human counterparts can be conceived, testrated and delivered. Homoeopathy be proud of Allopathy that has made Huxley’s macabre of dream of The Brave New World such a compelling reality so as to add to the woes and worries of mankind and the world already groaning under a crushing burden. Let us not underestimate the good that scientists can do to an individual even if that is detrimental to the world at large.
All told, male sterility may be defined as a state of potency for satisfying sex in the absence of the male able to discharge his duty of offering his himself called sperm to a homiself called ovum, with no more cause to worry for the science of artificiality of conception is progressive by leaps and is out of bounds.
