Dr.

Calloway went through the report with me in a room with a poster of a kidney on the wall.

Volume, normal.

Concentration, fourteen million per milliliter, which is inside the reference range at the bottom end.

Motility, fine.

Vitality, fine.

Morphology: two percent normal forms.

The threshold is four.

She explained it carefully and without any drama, and I am going to reproduce what she said as closely as I can, because I have repeated it to about six men since and two of them have gone and had the test.

She said: “This is called teratozoospermia and it’s extremely common and it is not sterility.