When it comes to sperm counts, French men aren't what they used to be, according to a new study.
Researchers found that between 1989 and 2005, the number of sperm in one millilitre of the average 35-year-old Frenchman's semen fell from about 74 million to about 50 million - a decrease of roughly 32 per cent.
"That's certainly within the normal range, but if you think about it, if there continues to be a decrease, we would expect that we'll get into that infertile range," said Grace Cen-tola, president of the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology in Birmingham, Alabama.
