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From: scheiber@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jennifer Scheiber)
Subject: Re: Pregnency without sex?
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Keywords: pregnency sex
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 20:54:38 GMT
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In article <10030@blue.cis.pitt.edu> kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert) writes:
>In article <stephen.735806195@mont> stephen@mont.cs.missouri.edu (Stephen Montgomery-Smith) writes:
>:When I was a school boy, my biology teacher told us of an incident
>:in which a couple were very passionate without actually having
>:sexual intercourse.  Somehow the girl became pregnent as sperm
>:cells made their way to her through the clothes via persperation.
>:
>:Was my biology teacher misinforming us, or do such incidents actually
>:occur?
>
>Sounds to me like someone was pulling your leg.  There is only one way for
>pregnancy to occur: intercourse.  These days however there is also
>artificial insemination and implantation techniques, but we're speaking of
>"natural" acts here.  It is possible for pregnancy to occur if semen is
>deposited just outside of the vagina (i.e. coitus interruptus), but that's
>about at far as you can get.  Through clothes -- no way.  Better go talk
>to your biology teacher.
>
>-- 
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>=  Kenneth Gilbert              __|__        University of Pittsburgh   =
>=  General Internal Medicine      |      "...dammit, not a programmer!" =
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 what is the likely hood of conception if sperm is deposited just outside
the vagina?  ie.  __% chance.
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