'They are called Imperfect men: Male Infertility and Sexual Health in Early Modern England

This article will demonstrate that male infertility was not absent from medical literature, but appeared in a variety of settings including tests for infertility, seventeenth-century handbills for treatments, and surgical treatises. It will show that medical and surgical writers accepted that men could be rendered infertile, but still sexually capable, in a variety of ways. Moreover, the article will show that seventeenth-century surgeons expected male readers to be concerned about their reproductive potential and constructed a framework of efficacy based upon their ability to secure on-going fertility.
Source: Social History of Medicine - Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tags: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Source Type: research