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Polygamous Heterosexuality & Reproductive Fertility

David KB5YLG kb5ylg at gte.net
Thu Oct 15 10:21:17 EST 1998


>* A woman's regular partner's sperm will be dominant and agressively
>"attack" a foreign or new partner's sperm if both are present in the
woman's
>sexual organs at the same time. ( Territorial Phagocytosis of some sort ?)


I saw this mentioned in a recent US PBS broadcast about human
sexuality...basically some of the sperm seem to be more geared towards
setting up a sort of defensive perimeter, while others seek out the egg to
fertilize...







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