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THE TESTICLES

As you may recall, the testicles, or testes, rest inside the scrotum. Each testicle is made up of separate compartments. We couldn’t draw small enough to get them all in this picture, but there are about 250 of these little compartments in each testicle. Inside each of these compartments are tiny, thread-like tubes called tubules, which are coiled up and packed tightly. If you unwound all the tubules in your testicles and stretched them out end to end, they’d stretch the length of several football pitches. During puberty a boy begins to make sperm inside these tubules, and he continues to make fresh sperm through the rest of his life. Sperm production slows down a bit in old age, but until then a male makes millions of sperm each day.

Sperm are alive. When they’re fully mature, they look like tadpoles, with rounded bodies and tiny tails. Of course, real sperm are much smaller. In fact, it would take 500 sperm lined up end to end to cover a distance of 25 mm (1 in). You can’t even see a sperm unless you use a microscope.

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