# Wherein Superdude feels his biological clock ticking away...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 9, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622 "2003-01-09T23:15:55Z")
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/1 "2003-01-09T23:15:55Z")
Ugh.
I just got, in today’s mail, an invitation to a non-Doper wedding in Atlanta on June 20 of this year. No problems there, except that Jay’s younger, and I have now defaulted into the oldest guy in the gang with no wife/SO.
I have attending weddings alone.
Anyone want to go?
Seriously.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/2 "2003-01-09T23:45:50Z")
Biological clock? You’re a _guy_.
You can produce babies until the day they put you in a six walled box!
You don’t feel your biological clock - you feel peer pressure. I say screw 'em!
Then again, I also hear weddings are great places to meet young, single wimmin. With loudly ticking clocks. This might not be bad overall, Superdude.
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### Author:  [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/3 "2003-01-10T00:23:35Z")
I hear you, **Superdude**. I’m a 25 year old woman. In the last three years, every last one of my friends got married.
I’m perpetually single.
At every single one of the weddings, the mothers of the bride, the groom, my old friends, etc. would ask their sons and daughters, “Why doesn’t Laura have a man? She’s pretty!” :rolleyes:
Worse than attending the weddings has been the fact that married/attached people have less time to spend with their single friends. Unfortunately, I still need my friends as much as I ever did. I find it frustrating and disheartening that there are times I need someone, and there’s no one with the time to be there for me.
So I know how you’re feeling. ☹
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### Author:  [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/4 "2003-01-10T00:31:25Z")
Oh, and I feel I must add…
Hey, Kevin’s a handsome fellow! Why doesn’t he have a girlfriend?
😃
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### Author:  [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/5 "2003-01-10T00:47:59Z")
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/6 "2003-01-10T00:55:58Z")
Go down there with some hot crazy stripper and show 'em who the boss is.
😃
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/7 "2003-01-10T01:03:41Z")
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> \*Originally posted by UncleBill \*
> Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
You’re thinking that he dresses up as a woman and attends the wedding in an elaborate farce _a la Tootsie_, and then rips the wig off and tells a touching parable about social expectations and pressures?
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/8 "2003-01-10T01:10:46Z")
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> I just got, in today’s mail, an invitation to a non-Doper wedding in Atlanta on June 20 of this year.
It’ll never happen. Anyone sending out invitations 5 months in advance is just asking to be jilted.
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### Author:  [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/9 "2003-01-10T01:13:18Z")
I know what you mean, **Superdude**. In the last six or seven months, I’ve attended six weddings… and will be at three more this year. (plus at least one in 2004) I wouldn’t say _all_ of my friends are married, but certainly most of them have SO’s. Me, I haven’t even gotten an offer to go out!
Can’t make it to Atlanta, though… sorry. ☹
F\_X
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### Author:  [@Jessity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessity)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/10 "2003-01-10T01:13:50Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Q.N. Jones \*
> \*\*I’m perpetually single.
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> At every single one of the weddings, the mothers of the bride, the groom, my old friends, etc. would ask their sons and daughters, “Why doesn’t Laura have a man? She’s pretty!” :rolleyes:
> So I know how you’re feeling. \*\*
Ditto.
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### Author:  [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/11 "2003-01-10T01:17:24Z")
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> \*Originally posted by lno \*
> \*\*You’re thinking that he dresses up as a woman and attends the wedding in an elaborate farce _a la Tootsie_, and then rips the wig off and tells a touching parable about social expectations and pressures? \*\*
Scary, huh? Great minds…
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/12 "2003-01-10T01:42:35Z")
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> \*Originally posted by lno \*
> \*\*You’re thinking that he dresses up as a woman and attends the wedding in an elaborate farce _a la Tootsie_, and then rips the wig off and tells a touching parable about social expectations and pressures? \*\*
Bwahaha!
I hope he looks like Tootsie and not Mrs. Doubtfire. 😛
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### Author:  [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/13 "2003-01-10T01:48:37Z")
Coldfire is right, it ain’t your clock ticking (but I hesitate to comment on what could be ticking in ya).
I must hang with a less mature group. None of my friends are married (1 is engaged) and I have NEVER been to a wedding (I’m 24 along with about a dozen girls and guys in the same age group).
But I heard weddings are the place to be if you want to meet some nice bride’s maids 😃
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/14 "2003-01-10T01:54:53Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Coldfire \*
> \*\*Biological clock? You’re a _guy_.
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> You can produce babies until the day they put you in a six walled box!\*\*
Damn right. Even if you’re too old to get a boner, they can harvest the swimmers from your wrinkled sack.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/15 "2003-01-10T04:28:54Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Coldfire \*
> \*\*Biological clock? You’re a _guy_.
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> You can produce babies until the day they put you in a six walled box!
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> You don’t feel your biological clock - you feel peer pressure. I say screw 'em!
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> Then again, I also hear weddings are great places to meet young, single wimmin. With loudly ticking clocks. This might not be bad overall, Superdude. \*\*
Maybe so but the quality of the sperm suffers considerably as you age.
[Male biological clock is ticking](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/health/2328909.stm)
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> The chances of a man having children dip past his 35th birthday, researchers have found.
> The researchers, from the University of Washington in Seattle, found that damage to the genetic material containing sperm cells increases with age. Unlike most other cells in the body, sperm cells are unable to repair this damage. In addition, the researchers found that as a man gets older he loses his natural ability to weed out unhealthy sperm cells through a process known as apoptosis. This means that there is a greater chance that a damaged sperm cell will successfully fertilise the female egg.
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> \*\*This could mean that the risk of miscarriage is increased or, at the other end of the scale, that children have a greater chance of developing mild abnormalities such as uneven teeth, or asymmetrical limbs. \*\*
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> Lead researcher Dr Narendra Singh told the BBC: “We found there is a significant change by the age of 35.”
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/16 "2003-01-10T16:24:34Z")
**lno** , better _Tootsie_ than Bugs Bunny in drag, I guess.
**badmana** , you know, I’ve thought about that. I know a few of their friends. One looks like Jane Krakowski with brown hair and two-tones eyes. She’s hot.
**Q.N. jones** , how _you_ doin’? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/17 "2003-01-10T16:34:17Z")
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> \*Originally posted by astro \*
> \*\*Maybe so but the quality of the sperm suffers considerably as you age. \*\*
Pshaw. But that just means you have to _try_ more often. And this is bad, how? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/18 "2003-01-10T17:04:47Z")
It’s a possibility that I will be in Atlanta sometime in June, so if you don’t have a companion by then and I’m there, I can spare an evening.
Other than that…you’re on your own, mister.
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### Author:  [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/19 "2003-01-10T17:53:50Z")
Heh. **astro** , that quote sounds really horrible until you get to the part where it says what defects the old sperm may cause: Crooked teeth or asymmetrical limbs.
::screaming in horror::
_that child needs braces! AND ONE ARM IS SLIGHTLY LONGER THAN THE OTHER ONE! Nooooooooo. Don’t look directly at him!_
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### Author:  [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-superdude-feels-his-biological-clock-ticking-away/147622/20 "2003-01-10T18:14:29Z")
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> Wherein Superdude feels his biological clock ticking away…
I’m with ya’. Over this holiday break I realized just how badly I want both a wife and a child (either because of the marriage, because we conceived, or because we adopted). I am in quite a funk over it because I honestly hadn’t cared much about either wives or children up to this point from a personal perspective. Now I feel like I’ve got absolutely no time to get anything going—which is silly, some say, as I’m only 27, but to tell the truth it doesn’t feel silly.
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