Hi, My boyfrined and I are very safe and I even track my cycles to know when I am ovulating. Well he and I had sex 2 days ago, when I was ovulating and the condom broke with a lot of precum in it. Well afterwards, we ended up using the pull out method for 2 more times. Now I'm hearing that precum has sperm in it and that it doesn't. Is there a chance that I may be pregnant from precum?
Does preejaculatory penile secretion originating from Cowper's gland contain sperm?
Zukerman Z; Weiss DB; Orvieto R
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel.
PURPOSE: To determine if spermatozoa are present in the preejaculatory penile secretion, originating from Cowper's gland. METHODS: DESIGN: Prospective clinical and laboratory study. SETTING: Andrology and Sex Counseling Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Academic Teaching Hospital. PATIENTS: Five patients referred for premature ejaculation, three for excessive fluid secreted during foreplay and four normal healthy volunteers. INTERVENTION: Glass slide smears of preejaculatory Cowper's gland secretion obtained during foreplay from at least two different occasions, and semen samples after masturbation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Microscopic examination of air-dried smears, and routine semen analyses. RESULTS: None of the preejaculatory samples contained sperm. All the patients had sperm in routine sperm analyses. CONCLUSIONS: Preejaculatory fluid secreted at the tip of the urethra from Cowper's gland during sexual stimulation did not contain sperm and therefore cannot be responsible for pregnancies during coitus interrupt's.
In other words,
Precum contains ZERO sperm!!
Sperm content of pre-ejaculatory fluid March 2011, Vol. 14, No. 1 , Pages 48-52 (doi:10.3109/14647273.2010.520798) HTML PDF (184 KB) PDF Plus (185 KB) Reprints Permissions Stephen R. Killick1,2, Christine Leary1,2, James Trussell1,3, Katherine A. Guthrie1,4 1Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK 2Hull IVF Unit, Women and Children's Hospital, Hull, UK 3Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA 4Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Partnership, Hull and East Yorkshire, Hull, UK Correspondence: Prof. Stephen Killick, The Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Women and Children's Hospital, Anlaby Road Hull, HU3 2PZ, UK. E-mail:
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k This study was designed to establish whether motile spermatozoa are released with pre-ejaculatory fluid and whether this fluid therefore poses a risk for unintended pregnancy. Forty samples of pre-ejaculatory fluid were examined from 27 volunteer men. Samples were obtained by masturbation and by touching the end of the penis with a Petri dish prior to ejaculation. Eleven of the 27 subjects (41%) produced pre-ejaculatory samples that contained spermatozoa and in 10 of these cases (37%), a reasonable proportion of the sperm was motile. The volunteers produced on up to five separate occasions and sperms were found in either all or none of their pre-ejaculatory samples. Hence, condoms should continue to be used from the first moment of genital contact, although it may be that some men, less likely to leak spermatozoa in their pre-ejaculatory fluid, are able to practice coitus interruptus more successfully than others.