Keeping the affected area clean and dry can usually help reduce skin redness. If an infection is the cause of your skin redness, your doctor may prescribe antibiotics to reduce the infectionâs symptoms. 1  1.
1 Exposed to air, on a cold surface or clothing, for example, sperm usually die within minutes. 2  In a closed and clean container at body temperature, sperm can survive for 4-6 hours or even more.  Sperm can be frozen at extremely low temperatures (but not in the refrigerator) and survive for years.
In a perfect environment inside a woman's body, your sperm can survive for five days only. Your partner can become pregnant only when the sperm are alive. However, sperm die within the first couple of days inside a woman's body generally. The sperm starts swimming up soon after being deposited into the woman's vagina.