Couples still have plenty of sex when conception is out of the question either because of the time of the woman's cycle, or because she is already pregnant or breastfeeding. But now the mystery of these fruitless bonkings might be solved.

Nematodes are free-living, soil-dwelling microscopic worms.

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But on learning it was twins he shot through to Queensland into – I later discovered – the waiting arms of his lover.