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So I heard before that everytime your body produces the best sperm and in the future your children would not be normal. Is that true or is it total bs?
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Are you saying that every time you masturbate the sperm become lesser quality?
Because yeah, that is BS.
Or so I'm told.
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Wet dreams. Exactly.
They have no chance to survive make your time.
But yea, sounds like a common myth.
So, whatever sperm you ejaculate out while masturbating were destined for death, anyhow.
And even if you were having sex every single time instead of masturbating, only one sperm would make it to the egg, maybe.
So yeah. Complete and total BS. It's a better myth than the ol "you'll go blind" or "hairy palms" stuff of the past.
*Actually, the exact opposite of this entire paragraph is the real truth. Well, except the part about masturbating so much. That was true.
Next time your priest tells you this, tell him to go fuck himself. Both ironic and poetic.
This sounds like a twist of something that could be true, the theory that a man's sperm changes depending on the state of his body at the time.
Basically the theory is that sperm is kind of like a long term situational forecast, in that your children are more likely to be given traits that will help them survive the first four or five years. In going with that flow, the sperm you make now would produce healthier children when used right now, then say if you froze it and used it fifty years from now, because the environmental conditions they were designed to survive would be slightly altered.
Unlike women, who get all thier eggs just before birth, men make thier special sauce on the fly. Nature's critical update patch, if you will.
Anyway, one would assume that a chronic masturbater would be an expert in the art, particularly in not chafing one's own dick off.
My advice about masturbation (since this is Help/Advice):
1) Don't yank too hard.
2) Think happy thoughts. Like Peter Pan. But don't actually think about Peter Pan. Unless that's your thing. Just don't tell me if it is.
Note that the overall quantity count is also very easy to measure using non-scientific testing. Masturbate every day for a week, and then wait 4-5 days. You'll notice a difference, too.
Fertility, like how active the sperm is. If they just waddle around or zip around all over the place. IIRC that is.
That is kind of interesting on a medical level. I don't know anything about what factors go into producing sperm, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Actually, it sounds more like a spiritual thing, which is not to say that it's any less credible.
It's called a "taste test." At least, that's what I tell women.
How did no one make this joke last night? I mean, this is H/A, granted, but come on. That was so obvious.
Yea, like the biggest thing male sperm can do other than start the human creation process is decide what sex the child will be.
Look! It's Lamark back from the dead!
How about them giraffes?
Edit: Also I'm no fucking scientist, but "theory" is not the word you're looking for. You mean to say "idea". A theory is a hypothesis which has actually been tested to be true in quite a few experiments.
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If you don't know very much about biology, it sort of makes intuitive sense, which is why it needs to be debunked early.
Biologically speaking, that's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard and not a 'theory' based on any remotely scientific evidence. Meiosis(which determines which genes go to which sperm) occurs the same way your entire life and all your genes end up in one sperm or another, it's totally random, no genes get left out because they're not desirable.
This is not necessarily true.
So apparently sperm quality in men has a tendency to decrease with age. This may be a side effect of aging in general, or it may be the cumulative effect of decades of masturbation. Probably the former.
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Exactly.
The dominant theory for why sperm loses "quality" later in life is that random mutations during meiosis introduce duplication errors. Meiosis (and these mutations) would occur whether you masturbate or not.
So in other words the notion of "sperm quality" isn't silly, but thinking that masturbation would reduce sperm quality is silly. (If anything, masturbation might improve sperm quality for the same reason it reduces prostate cancer risk - by flushing carcinogens out from the reproductive system. But that's just conjecture.)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Technically, that's "fact." "Fact" is merely well-tested, accepted "theory" that has yet to be unproven. A "theory" is a well-tested "hypothesis" that has yet to be unproven but is not yet accepted as "fact." A "hypothesis" is an unproven idea that has not been sufficiently tested to be considered even a potential "fact," and so it is not yet considered "theory" - there is not yet enough evidence that it can ever be a "fact." And "bullshit" is is a "hypothesis" which has been proven to be false or which people manufacture to some ill end, like this nonsense about masturbation.