Azoospermia obliges them to rebuild another concept of their virility. Partners sometimes cannot accept oligospermia or azoospermia and become aggressive. Guilt over their felt inadequacy can make impotence persist. In this context, some men suffer scrotal pain, asthenia and depression. Investigation of women s infertility can also be difficult to bear for the two partners.
Intimacy is threatened.
The physician explores the woman s body by clinical examination, hysterography, laparoscopy, and ultrasonography. Women also suffer from this situation, and many women describe a lack of sexual desire after experiencing tests. The diagnosis of infertility The revelation of sterility disrupts the individual s life course, as well as that of the couple and of the family. The break in filiation can be experienced as a kind of death. One of the components of love in a couple is the ability to imagine the partner as a potential parent.