More Than 15 Million Per Milliliter, Please

I was reading a magazine this week (either Newsweek or Bloomberg Businessweek; I'd stashed it aside for this very reason, but now it has mysteriously vanished) and learned that CVS Pharmacies will start to carry a new product in April called SpermCheck Fertility. The item will set you back about forty bucks, and claims that in just ten minutes can tell a fella with 98% accuracy if he's got a problem with his tadpole count or not.

In the past, checking to see if there was an issue with fertility was always on the woman's shoulders. Women have generally been the ones who have headed to their gynecolgists to see if it was them who was the cause of the infertlity.

With this new product, men and women are on a level playing filed in the world of inception and lack there of. I want to know if people think this is a good thing for a relationship. I mean now we are able to point the finger at the man and say, "It's your fault we can't have a baby."

Yes, I know that's always been the case for women. I'm not making this point because it's now directed at men. I'm making the point now because it's been brought back to my attention. Can knowing that a man or a woman is unable to crete a baby a good thing for a relationship?

I believe it can be a very good thing…for the right couple. Knowledge is power. Once we know where the "problem" lies, we can start working to fix it. That is, if the couple is on the same page. That knowledge can also be the power to ridicule and chastize a partner who is unable to give their partner a child.

The product sounds like a medical break-through, but will it help or hurt more relationships? What's your take?