My wife Eva and I were both frustrated and desperate.

We had been trying to get her knocked up for the entire four years we had been married, but to no avail. Finally a doctor had diagnosed me as having a low sperm count. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the fact that I am in the Merchant Marine and had to ship out regularly for a month or so at a time didn’t help either.

Eva finally decided that we had to explore the possibilities of fertility drugs and artificial insemination. Soon sex as ordinary people know it had ceased to exist for us, as all our efforts were centered on collecting my semen to be frozen and administered to her at the times she was most likely to conceive. In addition, these drugs and treatments were quite expensive, and our bank account was really feeling the pinch.

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