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Link to an article in the DT - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/arent-talking-male-fertility-crisis/
On Wednesday, as part of Fertility Network UK’s #YouAreNotAlone Fertility Week, the charity will focus specifically on men: reminding us that while male infertility is as prevalent as female, it often goes unspoken and untreated, leaving men in a lonely struggle with the emotional, physical and financial fall-out.
“For some guys, there is an incredible sense of shame involved, because we attach siring a child to masculinity so closely,” Voysey says.
The author and broadcaster has always been happy to identify himself as “the problem” in his and his wife, Merryn’s infertility struggle, in the hope that he can help shift this taboo, much the way we have with male depression.
On Wednesday, as part of Fertility Network UK’s #YouAreNotAlone Fertility Week, the charity will focus specifically on men: reminding us that while male infertility is as prevalent as female, it often goes unspoken and untreated, leaving men in a lonely struggle with the emotional, physical and financial fall-out.
“For some guys, there is an incredible sense of shame involved, because we attach siring a child to masculinity so closely,” Voysey says.
The author and broadcaster has always been happy to identify himself as “the problem” in his and his wife, Merryn’s infertility struggle, in the hope that he can help shift this taboo, much the way we have with male depression.