<P> "Every Sperm Is Sacred" is a musical sketch from the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life . The song was released on the album Monty Python Sings and was nominated for a BAFTA Music Award for Best Original Song in a Film in 1983 . André Jacquemin and David Howman wrote the music and Michael Palin and Terry Jones wrote the lyrics and performed the sketch, which is hailed as one of the Pythons' great sketches . </P> <P> The song is a satire of Catholic teachings on reproduction that forbid masturbation and contraception by artificial means . The sketch, called "The Third World", is about a Catholic Yorkshire man played by Michael Palin, with his wife played by director Terry Jones . They have sixty - three children, who are about to be sold for scientific experimentation purposes because their parents can no longer afford to care for such a large family with the local mill being closed . When their children ask why they do not use contraception or sterilisation, or why the father does not perform self - castration, their father explains that this is against God's wishes, and breaks into song, the chorus of which is: </P> <Dl> <Dd> Every sperm is sacred, </Dd> <Dd> Every sperm is great . </Dd> <Dd> If a sperm is wasted, </Dd> <Dd> God gets quite irate . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Every sperm is sacred, </Dd>

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