How long does semen live outside the body?

my friend had gotten sperm on her hand 10 min later she washed her hands and 10 more minutes touched her vagina there isnt a chance she could be pregnent right?
Answer:
You can get pregnant by smearing ejaculate on the entrance to your vagina. Those little buggers jsut need a warm and wet environment and they can swim in microscopic amounts of fluid!

In those circumstances described however, I would think .. no chance by reason of washing the hands and allowing them to dry.

Sperm likes body temperature. Outside the body ejaculate will stay at body temperature for a very little time before it cools and sperm then die very quickly. About an hour to kill them all is my guess. A good rule of thumb however, is to think that they are alive while ever the ejaculate is still wet. They need a warm and wet environment to survive.

It can last for between 3 to 5 days inside the female. A woman's reproductive tract is hostile territory for sperm. The pH of the vagina kills off most of them, and of the one percent that make it past the mucus plug at the bottom of the cervix, most end up in the wrong tube. Given the vagina's apparent hostility towards the sperm, and the sperm's poor sense of direction 鈥?it seems like getting pregnant is a difficult thing to do.

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It dies pretty quickly outside the body. 2 hrs max.
and no, you can't get pregnant by wiping it on your organ.

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i belive that sperm can last up to 2-3 hours. Depending on how good she washed her hands will find out if shes pregnant or not.

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Sperm lives can live up to 1-2 days outside the body. Get a pregnancy test

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