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Hantavirus may survive in human sperm for up to six years and cause a transmission risk
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
spits out five year old sperm
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Will pair nicely with the microplastics floating around in there :)
2026 cum is shaping up to be an excellent vintage
Pre-war sperm had better terroir.
vaxxed?
Devastating news for the cum collection squads 😔
sperm don't live for six years
Not with that attitude 
I think it’s like the dude who had Ebola in his eye, it can get inside the environment and stay there and the body’s immune system doesn’t follow it in. So, I guess, hantavirus is stored in the balls?
Immune privilege. You're talking about immune privilege. Sperm is immunogenic, if you took your own sperm and put it inside your body your body would react to it as a foreign body. So the testes get weird about the immune system. The eyes are also immune privileged, although not in the same way.
Also holy crap just looked immune privlidge up and the central nervous system is part of the group—is that why rabies can lurk for years and then crawl up your spine and kill you?
Its one of the reasons why our best tool against an infection you already have is a vaccine.
I haven't heard of rabies "lurking for years", but there are absolutely pathogens that can survive in latent form and cause all kinds of bad stuff.
A classic example is vcv returning as shingles, and JC virus killing AIDS patients and organ transplant recipients years after initial infection.
And cold sores, but that's less scary.
Ah thanks—that sounds much more accurate than my vague description. It’s so interesting that there are these sort of autonomous zones in our bodies. My understanding is that when the viruses are in there, they aren’t necessarily a threat to you anymore—basically just sorta hiding out. But certainly in the testes you could imagine it being a problem for transmission sexually…
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says you, i'm cultivating my most aged sperm like a taoist, so whenever i have a kid they're gonna be at least ten years old before they're even born. it's what any responsible pre parent would do
The microplastics and hantavirus in my balls fighting to the death like the end of Nier: Automata
Hantma balls?
not much, what's hantma with you
The testes are known to act as a “safe harbour” for at least 27 infectious diseases, allowing some pathogens to live in the body and infect others years after the patient has recovered.
I'm sorry to say this, i really am, but unlimited orchiectomies on the entire world population are the only solution to this issue.
And to many other issues as well. Men cannot be trusted with their ball privileges and should have them revoked as a precautionary measure. Women mostly do not want them and should have the option.
Wish there was simply a way to make them switch from producing testosterone to estrogen, though.
Yeah, i can see the appeal of that. Although i gotta say, being fully in charge of my hormone levels is nice as well. And before my orchi, i would never have imagined that feeling the mere absence of something could feel so good and so right.
i would never have imagined that feeling the mere absence of something could feel so good and so right.
I feel this about my hysterectomy so much. It really shouldn't matter that much, but the relief I get from knowing it's not there is immense! The absence of a shitty organ we never needed is so awesome and super cool! I love the cool little ways transmasc and transfem experiences are mirrors of each other
Forced fem on all mankind!!
Coming to Apple TV+, spring 2027
Did you know that testes are named after the Greek hero Testicles (Pronounced Tes-ti-clese) who was renowned for his immense feats of strength involving his balls?
Let's put things into perspective here. The virus is not replicating in people's testes, it is not active, it has not integrated itself into the germline genome or any other cells in the testes (As evidenced by RNAse totally removing it from the sample), the person's immune response is not turned off (As shown by a persistent immune response). This is only possible because of immune privilege in the testicles.
Let's not blow this out of proportion just et.
check your immune privilege in the testicles, sweaty
like 90% of why I posted this was because I thought there'd be funny comments
Cool. Good.
Immune privilege is stored in the balls
unlimited sex bans on the cruise ship class 
theyll have to keep their cum grains to themselves 
Apparently cum itself is safe as long as you remove the balls, so this really isn't that big of a deal.
surely we can't steal the balls of everyone that steps on a cruise ship and put them all in a big heap... unless 
Ahh at last I finally understand the plot of that cgi Final Fantasy movie, it was about this, but like an allegory
Man's didn't understand the geo-smegma
The rat piss and shid disease is stored in the balls
now where am I supposed to blast ropes??????
a sock?
like a dog?
A real man dry humps until he creams his pajamas, hands-free exercise of the gluteus maximus prepares you for true ascension into sigma-alpha territory... 
LUCID DREAMONIC BLASTING! 
Apparently not up to but at least six years:
We demonstrate that the ANDV genome persists within the reproductive tract for at least 71 months.
YOU HANTA BE KIDDING ME
I'll hanta your prostate for six years
Volcel police vindicated?
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
You doubted them? Horniness is a scourge to be viciously policed
you heard the nerds. stop drinking rat piss cum, folks.
Lesbians worldwide, "We are gods chosen people."
I can't produce sperm anymore, does that mean it's ok for me to play with rats?
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