TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 1月4日 02時02分

Bradley Goldman, now 30, began taking #steroids at 18. He’d heard they could interfere with #­fertility—­steroids can shut down the body’s natural production of ­testosterone—but like many young #men, he was more concerned with not having #babies than with having them. Now he and his wife are trying to get pregnant, and though he gave up steroids two years ago, it seems the damage is done. When he got a semen analysis last March, his sperm count came back a flat zero. “It was earth-­shattering,” he says. Infertility is almost always thought of as a woman’s issue, and it’s true that #women bear the greater burden of it. They are the ones who ultimately either get #pregnant or don’t, and regardless of which partner has the fertility problem, the woman’s body is usually the site of treatment. In vitro fertilization, for instance, often requires just a sperm sample from men but a great deal more from their female partners: injections of synthetic hormones, blood tests, ultrasounds. And yet up to 50% of cases in which couples can’t have babies are due in some way to men. More men are talking about it now, but it remains stigmatized, especially in the U.S. Men are largely absent from public conversation around #infertility, and even those who have looked for #support hesitate to identify as someone struggling with male infertility. “I feel like I’m your stereotypical masculine-­looking man,” says Goldman. “I’m tattooed. I have muscles. I work out. And I’m infertile. How many other guys out there that have this machismo, this mind-set about them, are in my shoes as well?” Read TIME's full Special Report, The Future of Babies, on TIME.com. Photograph by @ryanjamescaruthers for TIME

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