Trying Times

There’s never any discussion about infertility when you’re younger,” says Toby Trice. “It’s kind of automatic. You just assume you’re going to have children.”

Trice is one of thousands of men in the UK who struggle with their infertility and the punishing fallout of not being able to conceive. A semi-professional racing driver, he has made it his mission to raise awareness about the issue of male infertility and the impact it can have on mental health.

Thankfully, he’s not alone. In the wake of comedian Rhod Gilbert’s ‘Himfertility’ campaign, in which he revealed issues with his own fertility, a growing number of men are forming their own support groups and revealing their pain. And with a chronic lack of support from IVF clinics when it comes to mental health, it’s needed more than ever.

DOWN FOR THE COUNT

According to a 2019 Biology of Reproduction paper for Oxford University, sperm counts have halved worldwide in the past 40