You are right that you don't need to have sex to get pregnant...but you need to be pretty close to having sex to get pregnant! Lying near someone, holding hands, touching a man's towel or pants...these behaviors would not cause a pregnancy to occur.
A woman can become pregnant from a man who ejaculates near her vagina, and technically they are not "having sex", but their genitals are exposed to one another. Sperm can not travel through clothing, as the sperm (in semen, after a man ejaculates) is actually very fragile when outside the body, and only lives for a few seconds to a few minutes on items of clothing, linens and even body parts that are not moist environments (like, a hand or finger).
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Glad to hear back from you!
You are right that you don't need to have sex to get pregnant...but you need to be pretty close to having sex to get pregnant! Lying near someone, holding hands, touching a man's towel or pants...these behaviors would not cause a pregnancy to occur.
A woman can become pregnant from a man who ejaculates near her vagina, and technically they are not "having sex", but their genitals are exposed to one another. Sperm can not travel through clothing, as the sperm (in semen, after a man ejaculates) is actually very fragile when outside the body, and only lives for a few seconds to a few minutes on items of clothing, linens and even body parts that are not moist environments (like, a hand or finger).
Hope this helps!
June 20, 2010 - 8:21pmThis Comment
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