Fertility treatments rely on storage technology to preserve men's semen and women's eggs before in vitro fertilization and implantation in the womb. The equipment is mainly freezers, as the semen and eggs can be frozen and unfrozen.

Soldiers in Israel, Russia, and Ukraine are offered sperm preservation by their governments as part of the benefits of their military service. They can have their sperm preserved in a sperm bank at government expense so that in case they die in battle, their wives can still bear their child.

In the United States, the government also helps persons with terminal diseases like cancer to avail of sperm preservation so that their partners can still have their children if they die or follow radiation treatment that kills cancer, including sperm cells.

Sperm preservation also applies to vasectomy patients. Doctors, after doing ligation surgery on a man, have to conduct a sperm count within a month to know if the procedure was successful.

A male vasectomy intends to prevent pregnancy by eliminating the production of sperm. Post-surgery, the doctor has to check if sperm is still present in a patient's semen, which requires keeping samples for examination.

The procedure had one unintended consequence for an anonymous couple who already had three children and wanted no more, the New York Post reported.

As the wife was taking her favorite yogurt from the refrigerator, she saw beside it the small container filled with samples of her husband's sperm collected over the past few weeks that was to be submitted to the doctor. She thought it should have been placed discreetly out of sight.

As she started eating the thick and creamy yogurt, it reminded her of her hubby's icky semen in the fridge. She rushed to the bathroom and vomited into the toilet, according to NYP.

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