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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.
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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Date: 2004-12-05 10:47 am (UTC)LOL
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Date: 2004-12-05 11:07 am (UTC)If one had only ejaculation as a means of getting rid of these little buggers, men would have to ejaculate at least once per day, simply to get rid of the dead ones. In fact, men would end up ejaculating multiple times per day. While there are men who do so anyway, it's not a biological necessity.
The argument on the link between masturbation and wet dreams may be true, but it has little to do with the pure biological mechanism of eliminating unwanted sperm, and more to do with gratifying a frustrated sexual drive, as you noted in your comment.
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Date: 2004-12-05 11:30 am (UTC)Some men have lower sex drives that allow them to live comfortably without needing regular relief through masturbation. Conversely, some men have much higher sex drives, and may find themselves experiencing wet dreams if they break with a regular masturbation routine. It all comes down to the individual, just like in women. You're right - it's only social conditioning that tells us that men need release all the time.
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Date: 2004-12-05 11:42 am (UTC)I can't speak for girls - I'm not one, and very few websites even mention that girls have wetdreams. I do wish that you girls would stop trying to speak of something you know nothing about.
The "build up" theory? Maybe it's clinically incorrect - but it sure *feels* true. You can feel it building up over time, you can feel it released afterwards. And there's significantly more sperm after a week than after a day.
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Date: 2004-12-05 11:48 am (UTC)But I *do* know something about this. I educate myself. I read medical information. I don't just make stuff up.
The "build up" theory? Maybe it's clinically incorrect - but it sure *feels* true.
But it's not true. And it's wrong to act like it is just because it "feels" true. It feels true and obvious that the sun is what moves around the earth, but it's not true and there's no need to spread that misinformation.
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Date: 2004-12-05 12:19 pm (UTC)Thus accounting for the "build up" feeling, which would then have nothing to do with sperm or ejaculate either one.
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Date: 2004-12-05 01:54 pm (UTC)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.)
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Date: 2004-12-05 05:29 pm (UTC)So while the whole semen aspect seems liek a bunk, there are actual health benifits asociated with daily masturbation
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Date: 2004-12-05 06:23 pm (UTC)I do think with some it depends on how they feel about themselves/the opposite sex/ the world in general.
She treated him like crap, I didn't & he's still a horny toad after me.
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Date: 2004-12-05 06:43 pm (UTC)Just because we don't experience ejaculation doesn't mean we know "nothing" about it. As Conuly said, some of us actually read about it, whether official studies or simply personal accounts. And some of us have been in relationships for good lengths of time--I think that sleeping with a guy for years allows me some insight into how it all works.
As I understand it, based on a scientific study I read (and my own experience), it's true for some men that when they deny themselves for a long period of time and then give in, the ejaculate tends to be greater in volume. However, that is not due to a buildup of material, as Conuly has said; it's true for women, too, that we'll often spasm harder after prolonged periods of abstinence. And when abstaining, sexual dreams (feminine wet dreams) are more common, too.
So now, perhaps, you can speak for girls, at least in a general way. Such is the wonder of communication and research.
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Date: 2004-12-05 08:03 pm (UTC)Apparently you're very famous on the internet, or on livejournal or something. link (http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web/conuly) Yes...searching for something of mine, and I found there were a lot of links to you, and after a simple search...yes.
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