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Hi

I was reading this post from your old message boards to help with my anxiety

"What we mean by direct vulva-to-ejaculate contact is that the ejaculate would have come out of the penis and onto your vulva straight away. It can't go onto a hand or a toilet seat or clothing and still be able to co-create a pregnancy with you by getting onto your vulva. The person who has the penis would have to ejaculate onto your vulva. Directly onto your vulva.

This is because sperm cells can only travel around in their semen (Ejaculate is made up of both sperm cells and semen) and once that semen is exposed to air, temperature changes, semen drying a teeny bit - the sperm cells can't go anywhere, their tails break. So no, creating a pregnancy via a toilet seat isn't possible at all. Neither is creating a pregnancy via manual sex (with hands) or clothing.

The ejaculate needs to be fresh. That's why it needs to be directly out on the penis and onto the vulva, with no stops or places it can be transfered by - the seconds it's out of a penis and onto something else like a toilet seat or a some underpants? It's useless at helping to create a pregnancy, it just can't."

It was by one of your volunteers Saffron Raymie although it was posted in 2012 can I trust that this is the correct information still?

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