Both sexes' lives before conception and pregnancy matter - in both cases, cumulative damage to reproductive cells is more likely the older they are. (Women in a

Both sexes' lives before conception and pregnancy matter - in both cases, cumulative damage to reproductive cells is more likely the older they are. (Women in addition have pregnancy, during which there can be big affects on the embryo, for example if she binge-drinks.) The point of the article was that we knew little of the non-pregnancy effects before recent years. And while that information applies to both sexes, it is socially more significant for men, who previously were not considered relevant in this matter, but now are. Higher ages of conceiving babies in both sexes may be contributing to a rise in autism and so forth. But what is novel is that we already knew that was true for women, now the data shows it is true for men as well.