Nynaeve wrote:Sperm stays "fresh" at a certain temperature (somewhat below the body temp), but it can survive 20h tops once out of the body.
But presumably not on the soles of someone's shoes who's spent the day shopping and then make a prodigious leap up some poor, unsuspecting virgin's skirt as the shoe-sperm carrier parks his bum on a park bench and puts his feet up ten yards away from his victim?