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Question:
If a man has sex with a woman and after ejaculating inside the vagina, some sperm/seman spills out of the woman's vagina, and onto the sheets, could that sperm/seman remain viable after a few hours and if it somehow got into another woman's vagina cause her to become pregnant?

Answer:
by Konstance McCaffree:
(05/27/2004)
Good question. The simple answer to this question is that sperm, even inside of semen outside the vagina, is very fragile. That is why there are several hundred million in each ejaculation. Sperm dies so quickly and would not remain viable outside the vagina for several hours. Thus, it will not be able to get someone else pregnant.

Thanks for writing.

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