A new study confirmed what we all kind of figured, that sperm quality gets worse as men age.  Not only are men now subject to the equivalent of a woman’s “Biological clock” now, but there is also an increased chance of having children with the birth defect of dwarfism. 

While women face menopause and a decreased chance of having children with age, as well as an increase in the likelihood of pregnancy complications and birth defects, men also have to deal a decreased chance of fathering children normally, as a young healthy man would.

Men’s sperm counts go down as they age, and the sperm they do produce tend to be more inactive, making it more difficult to father children, and many time also relating this to the inability to achieve full hard ons and orgasms (impotence or the inability to become completely rock hard, remaining semi flacid).

A small count of the men involved in the study were found to be at increased risk for fathering children with genetically related problems, like dwarfism and other birth defects, but they were not found, like aging women, to have an increased likelihood of having a child with downs syndrome.