Middle Eastern masculinities in the age of new reproductive technologies: Male infertility and stigma in Egypt and Lebanon
Middle Eastern masculinities in the age of new reproductive technologies: Male infertility and stigma in Egypt and Lebanon
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DOI：
10.1525/maq.2004.18.2.162
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发表时间：
2004-06-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Inhorn, MC
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作者：
Inhorn, MC
在世界范围内，男性不育症占所有无子女病例的一半以上；然而，这是一个鲜有研究和了解的生殖健康问题。本文探讨了埃及开罗和黎巴嫩贝鲁特这两个中东地区的男性不育问题，这两个地区的男性由于环境和行为因素，可能面临更高的男性不育风险。有人认为，对于生育主义社会中的中东男性来说，男性不育可能是一个特别严重的问题。在那里，男子气概和生育能力通常都与男子气概联系在一起。因此，男性不育症是一种潜在的阉割疾病，被秘密和耻辱所包围。此外，专门为克服男性不育症而设计的称为胞浆内单精子注射（ICSI）的新生殖技术，由于与伊斯兰教对第三方配子捐赠的限制相关的复杂的道德和婚姻困境，可能会产生额外的耻辱和保密层。
Worldwide, male infertility contributes to more than half of all cases Of childlessness; yet, it is a reproductive health problem that is poorly studied and understood. This article examines the problem of male infertility in two Middle Eastern locales, Cairo, Egypt, and Beirut, Lebanon, where men may be at increased risk of male infertility because of environmental and behavioral factors. It is argued that male infertility may be particularly problematic for Middle Eastern men in their pronatalist societies; there, both virility and fertility are typically tied to manhood. Thus, male infertility is a potentially emasculating condition, surrounded by secrecy and stigma. Furthermore, the new reproductive technology called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), designed specifically to overcome male infertility, may paradoxically create additional layers of stigma and secrecy, due to the complex moral and marital dilemmas associated with Islamic restrictions on third-party donation of gametes.