ABSTRACT
Ten to fifteen percent of couples in the European countries remain childless unintentionally. In the future the problem of infertility will increase – probably more due to changing social structures than to physical conditions of women and men. More and more of them ask for medical assistance. Contraceptive means as well as reproductive technologies reinforce the freedom of the individual to choose the right time for having a baby. Being diagnosed infertile therefore means being disqualified in a very essential dimension of our life. Often infertile couples suspect that they remain infertile; but being medically diagnosed as such they are confronted with a medically defined and seemingly objectified problem. There is a ‘logic’ of fertility. There is a ‘logic’ of infertility. Sometimes it makes sense remaining infertile; especially when living in a very stressful situation. When undergoing in vitro fertilisation procedures the sense of infertility might often be more concealed than revealed.
