Men who view pornographic images of two men and a woman produce better-quality s

perm than men viewing pornographic images of just women, an Australian study rev
eals.
The finding suggests that humans may be capable of subconsciously increasing sem
en quality when faced with the possibility that their sperm will have to outrun
those of other men in a woman s reproductive tract.
In the study, zoologists Leigh Simmons and Sarah Kilgallon of the University of
Western Australia in Perth asked 52 heterosexual men aged between 18 and 35 year
s to ejaculate into a container after viewing the two types of image.
The volunteers had previously abstained from sexual activity for two to six days
. In samples from men who viewed the images containing the two men and a woman -
the "sperm-competition" images - 52% of the sperm were motile. This compared wi
th 49% sperm motility in the men who viewed the images of women only a differenc
e that was statistically significant after taking into account lifestyle factors
such as cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption.