Brutkey

Emelia 👸🏻

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io

Wait, what?? I was always taught the sperm breaks into the egg in sex ed, which for me was 2005-2009, yet we've known this wasn't the case since the 80s?!

Source: https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/stronger-sex-science-says-women-bookbite/56612/

4. The egg makes the decisions.

For a long time, biology textbooks told the same story: Sperm were the active heroes of fertilization, racing toward a passive egg, determined to break in and claim victory. But that story is wrong. As early as the 1980s, researchers discovered that the egg is far from passive when it comes to the fertilization process. In fact, it's making the decisions.

"The egg chooses when and if the wriggling sperm can break in."