This is what I get for reading my friend of list...

[conuly]

The amount of misinformation contained here is scary.

It is perfectly natural to not masturbate. Some people just don't. And, of course, it's perfectly natural to masturbate, and to want to - it will not make you go blind, grow hair, or get pimples. I'm a bit wary of searching for a link to prove that a lack of masturbation isn't connected to a frequency of wet dreams (don't want to find nothing but porn!) but I'm 93% confident that I am correct in that statement.

Nobody *has* to masturbate. You won't die if you don't. It's just that most people prefer to than to not.

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[marveen.livejournal.com]

I admit that I haven't done EXTENSIVE research on it, but my understanding was that while the majority of "sex drive" urges are mental/sociological (how many times have we heard about someone wondering how "normal" they are after finding out that they masturbate less than a quarter the amount that others do?), some of the phenomena of nocturnal orgasms are produced by the fact that the nerves involved "want" to fire.

Thus accounting for the "build up" feeling, which would then have nothing to do with sperm or ejaculate either one.

[stejcruetekie.livejournal.com]

And what is it that makes the nerves "want" to fire? Are they more inclined to "want" to fire if they haven't fired in awhile? If so, that would be build up. Perhaps not build up of sperm, but a buildup of something.

[conuly]

I didn't deny that an increase in sexual tension would lead to more nocturnal emissions, though - simply that the idea espoused in that thread was wrong.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Are they more inclined to "want" to fire if they haven't fired in awhile?

That was what I seem to recall, but I can't find the book I got it from to refresh my memory. (And you know as well as I do that Googling anything about penile nerves, orgasms and ejaculation is going to net you roughly seventeen thousand results, assaying out at fifty percent pr0n sites and forty-five percent Viagra ads, with a small but obtrusive percentage of "herbal enhancement product" listings.)