Members of Australia's elite Special Air Services (SAS) have started having their sperm frozen ahead of an expected deployment for possible war in Iraq, according to a newspaper Sunday.
Doctors at a Sydney sperm bank told the Sun-Herald newspaper two SAS commandos had contacted them recently after learning of their possible deployment to the Gulf.
"It's a bit of insurance so that the option is there if they are incapacitated in some way while they are serving overseas," Geoff Driscoll of IVF Australia told the paper.
"It's happened before in times of crisis that defense force personnel have thought ahead and decided to freeze their sperm," he added. "When they get back home safely they let us know and we throw it away," he said. (Albawaba.com)
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