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Chinese people view condoms at a condom exhibition in Shanghai, China, April 26, 2005. China Photos/Getty Images

A New York man, who found his girlfriend trying to secretly get pregnant by stealing his sperm from a used condom, posted his dilemma online, asking Reddit users for legal advice.

The 20-year-old man, who goes by the username yeetocheetow, wrote on a legal advice subreddit on Sunday that he was left baffled by what he discovered after he had sex with his girlfriend. Since she was not on birth control pills, they used condoms.

"I had just finished and removed the condom and I went to the bathroom after that. She screamed at me 'peeing or pooping?' Which I thought was weird as f---,” he wrote.

Not suspecting anything, the man jokingly answered with the latter, while he was actually doing the former. His girlfriend had no idea he was joking and thinking he was going to take a while, took the opportunity to implement her plan.

"I came back into the bedroom and found her pouring the contents of my used condom inside her vagina. I'm nervous as f--- honestly and have some questions,” he continued. "1) Is this legal at all? 2) What happens if she gets pregnant? 3) I did not consent to her doing this, 4) Do I legally own my sperm? 5) What are the odds of her getting pregnant?"

When the man tried to stop his girlfriend from stealing his sperm, he said she started screaming “bloody f-----g murder” and “rape.” Eventually, he was left with no other choice but to leave the apartment alone, to avoid the risk of his neighbors calling the police. “What should my next course of action be?” he asked.

He received a number of responses to his query before the thread was locked due to “excessive offtopic [comments] and rule violating comments.” Most of the advice revolved around the man asking for a paternity test, and telling the man to stay away from the woman.

"I would assume that she is now your ex-girlfriend? Stay away from her and if she tells you that she is pregnant, get a paternity test,” wrote one user, while another commented, “Document this - make detailed notes to yourself describing what you observed, and write the date/time of the events, and the date/time you wrote those notes. If she gets pregnant, she carries the child to term, and a paternity test proves the baby’s yours, get a lawyer. The lawyer may be able to help you sue for full custody if you want that, or for termination for paternal rights."

A third told the man not to “let her [his girlfriend] in your place for anything, under any circumstances. If she has stuff stored there, make an arrangement to return it to her someplace where there are lots of witnesses...perhaps a restaurant where you are a regular, or the lobby of the police station.”

In a similar instance, Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal, a British journalist, accused his ex-wife of trying to steal his sperm to get pregnant. In an op-ed for the Sun, he claimed he had caught his former spouse trying to get her hand on his sperm when they were still married, after picking out his used condom from the bin.

“Luckily for me, my little troopers stayed loyal and didn't go to work for her, otherwise I could've found myself a father, emotionally and financially trapped by her for the rest of my life,” he wrote.