SEX ORGANS LOCATED IN THE PELVIS create new human lives. Each month a ripe egg is released from one of the female’s ovaries into a fallopian tube leading to the uterus (womb), a muscular pear-sized organ. A male produces minute tadpolelike sperm in two oval glands called testes. When the male is ready to release sperm into the female’s vagina, many millions pass into his urethra and leave his body through the fleshy penis. The sperm travel up through the vagina into the uterus and fallopian tubes, and one sperm may enter and fertilize an egg. The fertilized egg becomes
embed ded in the uterus wall and starts to grow into a new human being.
