Pregnant without having sex

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Skip navigation! Story from Sex. Molly Longman. I was wrong. Turns out, you can get pregnant without having any penetrative, penis-in-vagina sex at all. One in women in the U.

According to the American Pregnancy Association, while it is "extremely unlikely" for a woman to get pregnant without penetration, it is "technically possible. Pregnancy naturally occurs when sperm cells from a man's semen enter a woman's vagina and then travel through her cervix and uterus to the fallopian tubes, where an egg is fertilized. The average male's ejaculate typically contains anywhere from around 40 up to 80 million sperm cells and only one sperm cell needs to fertilize an egg.

Do you remember hearing about that friend of a friend who got pregnant just by kissing in a hot tub? While that ended up being an urban legend, you may be surprised to learn you actually can get pregnant without having penetrative sex. Related: Teenage Pregnancy.