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Boris Becker having sex with a Russian woman in a broom cupboard in a Japanese restaurant is an unlikely story to begin with. For the woman, Angela Ermakowa, to claim she now has his love child (apparently backed up by genetic testing) is even more extraordinary.

But if you're wondering what the odds are of getting pregnant from one act of sex, don't bother. Becker is telling the media he didn't have sex with Angela at all. His lawyers allege that Angela targeted Becker, stealing his sperm and inseminating herself to have his baby. The plan, apparently involving the Russian Mafia, was to blackmail Becker over his "love child".

The case raises a few basic biology questions aside from how Angela hid her mouth full of semen. Their goodbyes must have been limited to nods. But can sperm live for any time outside the vagina? Could they survive being given a saliva bath by the mouth? And if you then inseminate these traumatised sperm, do they have it in them to battle through the hostile female reproductive tract to find their egg?

In fact, sperm can be inseminated (using fingers or more sophisticated syringes) from anywhere they've been deposited outside the vagina. "Its possible for a woman to become pregnant with sperm inseminated into the vagina that's been ejaculated outside," says Dr Steve Brody, of the Advanced Fertility Institute of San Diego. "When sperm is ejaculated it's a gel-like, viscous substance. Within five to 15 minutes it liquifies. This gel phase is probably a mechanism to protect the sperm cells in the initial phase of ejaculation. No one knows for sure why it comes out like this. It's only after it liquifies that it really becomes mobile."

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