[aaffttoonn]

Male factor is 50% of the equation and it is really important for both women and men to understand that from an education perspective. We are customers ourselves for our female fertility test and understand the female market well, but are interested in learning more about if males would proactively test / store their sperm.

[shouldifakeit]

Happy to chat with you about this. I've been through 4 IVFs and have severe male factor infertility, so sadly I know this space all too well. Mens market is trickier - the existing method for home testing for men is too clunky. You need to produce a sperm sample into.. a test tube. Then put it in warm water. Then wait. This is too dirty and too much work.

There is a roundabout way to do this without a sperm sample. Pen prick, blood in a container, ship it out to a lab and then do a karyotype test on it. That'll pick up around 50% of infertility cases. To cover the rest, you'll need to do a sperm test. Also, the 'hook' that gets men in has to be more than just 'check your sperm count'. Men mostly couldn't care less about their sperm count. Something like 'check if you're at risk of passing on a rare blood disease' is a much better hook.

[tvanantwerp]

As a man, I would certainly buy it. If my wife and I can't have kids, then it could be either of us with an issue. And I'm no more inclined to go to and pay for a lab test than she is, I imagine.