‘I’m scared I’ve left it too late to have kids’: the men haunted by their biological clocks

It's certainly not just women who worry about ageing and procreation - and now men have begun speaking about their own deep anxieties

It was when Connor woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom that he started thinking about it. The 38-year-old civil servant from London got back into bed and couldn't sleep: he was spiralling. I thought: Shit, I might not be able to have children. It actually might not happen,'" he says.

It started with me thinking about how I'm looking to buy a house, and everything is happening too late in my life," Connor says. Then I started worrying about how long it would take me to save again to get married, after I buy the house. I was doing the maths on that - when will I be able to afford to be married, own a house and start having kids? Probably in my 40s. Then I started freaking out about what the quality of my sperm will be like by then. What if something's wrong with the child? And then I thought, oh no, what if me and my girlfriend don't work out? I'll be in an even worse scenario in a few years."