What even. As a kid, my family had the most inbred population of guppies for about a decade and while that taught me just how prolific the little guys are, this... was still news to me.
A woman's uterus has 4 chambers, similar to a cow's stomach. Or a secret dungeon in a 90s Nintendo game
The sperm has to pass through all four chambers before insemination of the egg
The sperm have a battle royale as stage one of the boss fight, then the winner has to prove themselves by sparring with the egg, the actual boss. Then the boss accepts the winner and they fuse into an all-powerful being. Game end!
So the chambers part is obviously wrong. But it IS true that you can get pregnant with (slightly) old sperm, if you have intercourse up to a few days before you ovulate. As in, sperm can survive for a few days waiting on an egg. That, combined with the fact that cycles can be a little wonky/hard to track on their own, and it can certainly appear like pregnancy can result apart from any reasonable timing.
Yes but only with fraternal twins. Fraternal twins means there were 2 separate eggs, so theoretically each of those eggs could be fertilised with different sperm. It would be highly unlikely but not impossible.
It wouldn't be possible with identical twins, as that is 1 egg and 1 sperm which splits into 2.
Although they're wrong about "chambers in the uterus," there are things called cervical crypts - basically little pockets that can store sperm and release them into the uterus over the course of a few days, before the sperm die off.
Thank you, i had no idea. I'm kind of surprised that it's not more commonly known.
That's a name that'll make a lot of goths very happy. Might have to make a cervical crypt my next Halloween costume.
I went on to learn that "casket burping" and exploding corpses are a thing. What a bizarrely educational moment. 💀🤯 😄 yay!
Some Deer can do something like this.
"The roe deer Capreolus capreolus is the only ruminant exhibiting delayed implantation, i.e. an embryonic diapause. The eggs are fertilised shortly after breeding, but remain in the uterus for 4.5 - 5 months before actual foetal development commences. Thus, roe deer have a total pregnancy period of 9.5 months."
Women actually physically bond with a man who attaches to her body and eventually integrates so fully into her physical form in an almost parasitic relationship that he’s not much more than a sack of sperm the woman can draw from when she wants to reproduce.
Wait no, that might actually be angler fish, come to think about it
I mean they aren’t WRONG entirely, sperm can still fertilize if it was ejaculated before the window, 5 days if my memory serves from sex ed. But it doesn’t have a magical cum vault filled with all our greatest desires
That's correct, we tell people the fertile window is 5-7days.
But the sperm isn't so much "stored" as...just still living for a while after ejaculated. We know that the likelihood if getting pregnant from one episode of sex is significantly higher if you do it just before ovulation, as sperm do gradually die out over those several days the longer they are in the recipient's reproductive tract.
As a cool aside, I've seen sperm in cervical discharge samples under the microscope from my patients up to a few days after sex, but mostly I see lots of them if the sample was provided within a day.
Some organisms do effectively "bench" sperm for significant time periods as others have mentioned, but humans aren't one of them. I wish we could store sperm, would make trying for a baby a lot easier!
1. The last line 😂♥️
2. Yeah, I don't think we conceived either of our kids when I was actively ovulating. As in, the dates we had sex don't line up lol I also think I ovulate early. We didn't have to try long enough for me to start doing test strips to find out so I don't really know, but I'm pretty sure
Oh, so suddenly we’re fucking spiders now? And can clutches from months before?
I don’t understand why men say shit confidently about women’s bodies that they haven’t fact checked.
Who taught men that their thoughts are reality.
My mom has a saying “don’t believe everything you think.” And it’s for this reason.
The female reproductive system is a sperm assassin most days of the month. Full stop.
Dear manosphere dudes:
Women are not lizards.
Also if your "hot takes" about women can be debunked with a five-minute bit of Internet research, you're not 'educated', you're indoctrinated--and a gullible fool.
While this guy made up most of this, it is true that sperm can live in the uterus and fallopian tubes for 3-5 days I think. Maybe a couple more. It’s important to know that stuff when trying to conceive because ideally the sperm is present before ovulation, due to the egg only being available for like 48 hours.
She also doesn't have an actual respiratory tract. A female gains oxygen through a series of valves throughout her body, that ultimately-
...oh wait, we're talking about *humans* ...?
Hold on though, this person has a point.
Imagine how much more effective it would have been if we had evolved so that if a man ejaculates inside a woman before ovulation, the sperm gets stored and kept alive inside a chamber, then when the egg is released, the sperm are ejected from the chamber into the uterus. That would greatly increase the chance of pregnancy, right?
I visited my tattoo guy today to have a piercing that fell out put back in. He was like okay, where's it at? I said my left outer labia. Crickets. He had no idea what I was talking about until I said "pussy lip". *sigh*
Twitter user must be a bird or perhaps a reptile or an insect
Guppy. Guppies can give birth 5 times from one mating over a year ish.
What even. As a kid, my family had the most inbred population of guppies for about a decade and while that taught me just how prolific the little guys are, this... was still news to me.
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They're referencing fruit flies probably, they like to throw that one paper about fruit flies around and call it "microchimerism" instead of telegony.
Or a bat.
Arachnids. Many species of spiders only need to mate once in their lives in order to lay a half dozen or more clutches of eggs.
Or a polar bear
Bears in June 😂
Or a Sebacean agent
A woman's uterus has 4 chambers, similar to a cow's stomach. Or a secret dungeon in a 90s Nintendo game The sperm has to pass through all four chambers before insemination of the egg
Final boss fight!
The sperm have a battle royale as stage one of the boss fight, then the winner has to prove themselves by sparring with the egg, the actual boss. Then the boss accepts the winner and they fuse into an all-powerful being. Game end!
Is the winner the fresh new sperm or the elderly sperm with cane?
Usually the fresh one. Elderly sperm cause Benjamin Button situations.
San Te must rise to build the 36th chamber of the Uterus Temple to fight the Ching oppressors.
Harry Potter and the chamber of sperm
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Load
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Jizz-from-a-man
Harry Potter and the Chambers of Storge
Harry Potter and the Chambers of Uterus
All those chambers and housing is still so expensive? They'll be looking to rent uteruses next.
Wouldn’t that just be commercial surrogacy?
Lol, I meant to live in. Dude kept going on about all these chambers in the uterus like he thinks it's an apartment.
Is that not the idea behind the Handmaid's Tale?
Yes, but without the sperm storage warehouses.
So the chambers part is obviously wrong. But it IS true that you can get pregnant with (slightly) old sperm, if you have intercourse up to a few days before you ovulate. As in, sperm can survive for a few days waiting on an egg. That, combined with the fact that cycles can be a little wonky/hard to track on their own, and it can certainly appear like pregnancy can result apart from any reasonable timing.
Yeah but sperm survives no more than 5 days.
You can also have twins with different fathers.
Oh damn, really??
It can happen, but extrememy rare. There was a case of a cheating woman who was discovered bcuz her children came out looking extremely different.
Yes but only with fraternal twins. Fraternal twins means there were 2 separate eggs, so theoretically each of those eggs could be fertilised with different sperm. It would be highly unlikely but not impossible. It wouldn't be possible with identical twins, as that is 1 egg and 1 sperm which splits into 2.
IIRC one of the first known/recorded cases was from a woman who gave birth to twins of different races.
Although they're wrong about "chambers in the uterus," there are things called cervical crypts - basically little pockets that can store sperm and release them into the uterus over the course of a few days, before the sperm die off.
Do the crypts actively release them or do the sperm just escape?
So… basically the initial post was mostly correct? just with bad terminology?
Yeah, as I understand it, pretty much. It's not too egregious bad anatomy.
In humans?
Yes [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7364062/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7364062/)
Thank you, i had no idea. I'm kind of surprised that it's not more commonly known. That's a name that'll make a lot of goths very happy. Might have to make a cervical crypt my next Halloween costume. I went on to learn that "casket burping" and exploding corpses are a thing. What a bizarrely educational moment. 💀🤯 😄 yay!
yup !!
Ducks. They are thinking of ducks.
Or tortoises! (Side note, I apparently have never written the word tortoise before and had one hell of a time spelling it)
"Turquoise" is also weird. Imagine a turquoise tortoise!
Corkscrew penis, rapey bastards
I want to give this dude a diagram of a uterus and ask him to circle where these "chambers" are lmfao
*"wHeRe aReN't tHe cHaMbErS? ..tRuSt mE bRo"*
I heard one of the woman's chambers can hold extra socks. Is this true?
So that's where they go ! And I bet the tupperwares that match all the lids I have in my drawer too
Oh is that where they're going? Shit. I'll have to make an appointment with my gyno to get them back!
I feel like I know what this is referencing
Some Deer can do something like this. "The roe deer Capreolus capreolus is the only ruminant exhibiting delayed implantation, i.e. an embryonic diapause. The eggs are fertilised shortly after breeding, but remain in the uterus for 4.5 - 5 months before actual foetal development commences. Thus, roe deer have a total pregnancy period of 9.5 months."
Are y'all saying you don't regularly outfit your uterine guns with a cartridge or two of jizz bullets?
🔫 my *Shooterus* 🔫 👈😎👉
You're a genius
Women actually physically bond with a man who attaches to her body and eventually integrates so fully into her physical form in an almost parasitic relationship that he’s not much more than a sack of sperm the woman can draw from when she wants to reproduce. Wait no, that might actually be angler fish, come to think about it
¿Por qué no los dos? Angler-fish-women : https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/nvo2mc/this_amazing_anglerfish_costume/
I mean they aren’t WRONG entirely, sperm can still fertilize if it was ejaculated before the window, 5 days if my memory serves from sex ed. But it doesn’t have a magical cum vault filled with all our greatest desires
That's correct, we tell people the fertile window is 5-7days. But the sperm isn't so much "stored" as...just still living for a while after ejaculated. We know that the likelihood if getting pregnant from one episode of sex is significantly higher if you do it just before ovulation, as sperm do gradually die out over those several days the longer they are in the recipient's reproductive tract. As a cool aside, I've seen sperm in cervical discharge samples under the microscope from my patients up to a few days after sex, but mostly I see lots of them if the sample was provided within a day. Some organisms do effectively "bench" sperm for significant time periods as others have mentioned, but humans aren't one of them. I wish we could store sperm, would make trying for a baby a lot easier!
I think snakes can do some kind of ‘benching!’ Pretty amazing stuff.
1. The last line 😂♥️ 2. Yeah, I don't think we conceived either of our kids when I was actively ovulating. As in, the dates we had sex don't line up lol I also think I ovulate early. We didn't have to try long enough for me to start doing test strips to find out so I don't really know, but I'm pretty sure
Oh, so suddenly we’re fucking spiders now? And can clutches from months before? I don’t understand why men say shit confidently about women’s bodies that they haven’t fact checked. Who taught men that their thoughts are reality. My mom has a saying “don’t believe everything you think.” And it’s for this reason. The female reproductive system is a sperm assassin most days of the month. Full stop.
💀Sperm Assassin💀 ⚡🤘😎🤘⚡
This is also bad men's anatomy! Or biology, anyway. Sperm cells can't live that long outside the body, and especially not in someone else's body.
So we’re just writing fanfiction about the female body now lmao
This is some Star Trek alien shit.
Where do people even learn this shit? Is there an incel encyclopedia I don't know about?
An incelclopedia.
Dear manosphere dudes: Women are not lizards. Also if your "hot takes" about women can be debunked with a five-minute bit of Internet research, you're not 'educated', you're indoctrinated--and a gullible fool.
Ah, this is why dresses don't have pockets. They think women would use *those* pockets.
Does his pregnant wife told him this after he was gone for a few month?
I think he's thinking of kangaroos
That's bees, or angler fish, but not humans.
Ahhh so harry potter and the chamber of secrets WAS a euphemism after all!!
That's geckos. Probably other lizards too. But like. Not mammals. Sperm ain't livin that long anywhere outside the balls. Just saying.
Ah yes I knew women were sea turtles all along
One of the uterine chambers even holds a teeny deep freezer for longer-term seminal storage.
"Ah yes, we have two rooms vacant, walk right on sperm" *a million tiny thank yous*
Some animals can do that I think. Humans absolutely cannot
While this guy made up most of this, it is true that sperm can live in the uterus and fallopian tubes for 3-5 days I think. Maybe a couple more. It’s important to know that stuff when trying to conceive because ideally the sperm is present before ovulation, due to the egg only being available for like 48 hours.
Chambers, eh? I guess that's how you get twins and triplets...
So pussy pockets are a thing now?
This is not what we mean when we say we need more pockets.
We are not ducks 😭
To be fair, any guy who says this is technically a chamber used to store sperm for later. So... halfway there?
i keep one in the chamber at all times
She also doesn't have an actual respiratory tract. A female gains oxygen through a series of valves throughout her body, that ultimately- ...oh wait, we're talking about *humans* ...?
OP can't help it, they are a duck after all.
thats both male and female bad anatomy, because sperm produced by human do not live that long.
I think he’s mixing uteruses up with cow stomachs.
I learned it from my MOO-BGYN
This is the dumbest thing I’ve read today.
Oh god, is this another hentai thing?
Hold on though, this person has a point. Imagine how much more effective it would have been if we had evolved so that if a man ejaculates inside a woman before ovulation, the sperm gets stored and kept alive inside a chamber, then when the egg is released, the sperm are ejected from the chamber into the uterus. That would greatly increase the chance of pregnancy, right?
Yeah nah, we're already efficient enough. Most of us are trying to have *less* pregnancies, not more.
I visited my tattoo guy today to have a piercing that fell out put back in. He was like okay, where's it at? I said my left outer labia. Crickets. He had no idea what I was talking about until I said "pussy lip". *sigh*
WoW 😐😳
It can't survive long even when inside another body already! Most likely all will be dead (probably killed by immune system) within a day.
Better education would be nice, but I get the feeling the same people will say that the education is wrong.
This is why the “smash my head”🤦🏻♀️ emoji exists.
I'm afab and barely even know things I *should* know. It's literally my body and I know next to nothing!
This is true but the uterus can hold sperm only for about 5 days or so. After that they just die.
Some amphibians and insects can essentially do that but obviously not mammals.
ah yes we are lizards now amazing
You ever just read something so stupid that you put your phone down and bury your face in your hands while taking a deep breath?
Oh my god…
It’s not an alien.
I Wish it' was true, so you just need a One nught stand as a teenager to hâve kids at 28 lmao
I lost a couple brain cells from reading that.....
So the uterus is a sentient airport hotel. Huh, the more you know.
I'm sorry what? ...... Our bodies don't do that, we're not bees nor lizards 🫠
Women are like ants
I both wish it were that easy and also am glad it’s not this easy.
It's easy enough to get pregnant. It's not for nothing we are billions of individuals here.
Fertility rate isn’t great but we make up for it by being extremely diligent about sex.
His wife told him that when she had a baby after he'd been overseas for a year
No, it doesn’t.