Sperm and Ejaculation Enhancement

Is Too Much Masturbation a Bad Thing?

Hey, we all do it, right? All men masturbate, that’s pretty much an undisputed fact. It’s like saying the sky is blue, or the grass is green. It’s an accepted social and biological fact of nature. Of course, women do it too, but the perception is that women don’t do it as often. So, is that true? Well, it may be true actually simply because women are not as biologically driven to reproduce like men are.

Men are very much more driven to have sex, on a basic level, it’s as nature designed us, to want to “spread our seed” or however you want to put it. It’s not that men can’t be faithful, it’s just that men can definitely be faithful as long as they are feeling satisfied and in love with their partner. Of course, there are one offs like genuine sexual addictions, but I’m just speaking generally.

Other than being a sign of some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder if you engage in self pleasure more than a couple times a week, it can also have some physical effects that you won’t like as well apparently.

Of course, just the aspect of you spending as much time and energy on it as you do if engage that often is not healthy, and can preoccupy your life with thoughts and actions that have no purpose, and that may be the main concern, but are there some other additional health aspects you may want to consider before hitting the bathroom to do the deed too?

Honestly, I could fine no actual physiological issues that result directly from masturbating more than a couple times a week. Believe it or not, some men do it several times a day, and that I think is extremely overdoing it. It’s not socially acceptable, it’s socially isolating, and it focuses your mind on too much of a simply nonproductive activity, which just isn’t good for your psyche.

It may not have any directly bad health effects, besides maybe straining the heart too much, several times a day, or perhaps this may lead to a problem with your ejaculate being expelled too often from your body, but other than that the main concern is that you are focusing too much energy and time on a wasteful activity.

Weird News : Dr. Fertilizes Patient With His Sperm

Ew, well this is a little gross if you ask me, and very unusual, at least as a woman myself, I’d like to think so.  By the way, this is your female guest writer Jill back at ya again so we can get a little refreshing female perspective on this blog once in a while.  I read the most disturbing story the other day about how a Doctor has been accused of implanting his own sperm into one of his patients where he works as a fertility specialist. What I first thought when I read the headline was why?

Was this some strange attempt at having a love child with someone he was in love with and couldn’t have?  Let me state again, I’m a woman, and I tend to blow these things out of proportion from a relationship angle.  Oh, and the fact that I just read about Jennifer Aniston’s new movie with Jason Bateman where Bateman is in love with her and switches out her artificial insemination sperm with his own because he wants her to have his love child.  I know, crazy!

More likely than that slightly more emotional reason, I thought maybe it also had something to do with the fact that he knew his sperm were more viable than the patients husband?

At any rate, the woman actually did become pregnant from the implantation of the supposed Dr’s sperm, and she became pregnant with twins nonetheless.  I also wondered how she found out the sperm that was used was not her husband’s as it was supposed to be?  Read on for more details…this is an interesting one for sure.

The couple who tried to sue the Dr., who by the way denies the allegations, are a mixed race couple, the husband is African American and the wife is caucasian.  So, when their babies came out fairly complected they were a little shocked, and at the suggestion of a doctor, got a DNA test which suggested that the husband was not the biological father of the twins.

So, either the Dr. may have used his own sperm to artificially inseminate the woman, although it is not clear what the motive would have been, or he may have purposely or accidentally used the wrong man’s sperm to impregnate the wife.  At any rate, it’s a sad story that this woman carried these children thinking they were her husbands and they weren’t, however, at least she had two healthy babies, that’s the bright side.  The investigation is supposedly still ongoing.

Did Ya Ever Notice….

That you just don’t last that long in bed when you haven’t had sex in a while?  It’s always sort of a let down you feel to your partner when you haven’t had sex in like a few weeks, a week, or whatever happens to constitute a “long time” to you and your sexual partner, spouse or whatever, and you finally do the deed and end up lasting like 2 minutes, or worse like one minute.  I mean, hopefully you and your partner are candid enough with eachother where this sort of thing can be like a funny little joke between the two of you, but it always does make you feel a little inadequate as a lover.

What’s the lesson here, my friend?  Well, to have sex often!  Sex is therapeutic, it lowers blood pressure in the long term, and the more you have, the better your mood generally is.  Have you ever known people who just don’t have sex?  Well quite frankly, they act like they have sticks up their butt or something, for a good reason.  Sexual anxiety builds easily, and when you don’t have that release often enough, not only do you get anxious, but you also have those moments increasingly where you can only get a hard on for a few minutes.  Having sex often is not only great exercise and good for the heart, mind, soul and relationship, but it also can actually improve your sexual performance overall as well.

There are some things you can do in between your sexual interludes with your wife or partner though that will help you last longer the next time you make love.  For one, autoeroticism, aka masturbation, will help you last lots longer the next time you get in bed with your honey. Also, there are some penis exercises that may help you to not only last longer and have better sexual performance, but they also can help you attain a larger penis when erect by encouraging muscle lengthening of the penis when it is in a flacid state. These exercises must only be done in a flacid state so that the risk of injury to the penis is lower.

Speaking of masturbation, I think we might talk a little about that in the next update.  My partner and I were just talking about how we don’t know when eachother indulges in self stimulation, and we don’t really want to know.  After all, there are some things that should always be sacred, no?  Masturbation to me is still a very private affair, and should remain that way, unless you get into sharing that with your partner.  That’s all a totally individual thing, like everything else sexual!

Sex Once a Day Makes for Healthy Sperm

Those couples who are trying to conceive a baby may want to take note of some news that comes out of a study done by a prominent fertility clinic, which points strongly to evidence that having sex every single day actually creates stronger sperm, and may even improve sperm count.  It used to be debated that men should wait a few days before having sex again when they and their partner are trying to get pregnant, sort of due to this notion that the sperm “get stronger and replenish” when the reproduction systme is given a break of a few days, but now evidence shows the opposite, that in fact having sex every day helps to improve the sperm, and therefore the chances of impregnation.

They go further to say that couples trying to have a baby should have sex every day leading up to the woman’s ovulation period, so that they can be sure those sperm are nice and healthy good swimmers to get to the egg and fertilize it, creating an embryo, and then a bouncin’ baby boy or girl.  This is good news for those guys with huge sexual appetites – and lots of time on their hands to boot, but what about guys who need help with their libido, and don’t think that they have the time or energy to devote to sex daily?

Well, there are of course prescription meds like Cialis, Viagra and Levitra that can help get a guy in the mood in a jiffy and on demand, but who wants to pop these medications every day?  The logic here is that the guy will get used to it and build endurance, and actually having more sex leads to more sexual desire, when you would think it might be the other way around, the abstinence creates more desire.  Abstinence is in fact, not the answer if you’re trying to conceive.

Here’s the theory behind frequent sex and sperm health.  And it actually makes sense!  The idea is that if you have sex every day and ejaculate every day, then your sperm are less exposed to damaging elements, and therefore are able to remain healthier. When you go even a few days without sex and without ejaculating, then your sperm is exposed to cell damage and they die off and are weakened.  So, basically you’re dealing with brand new, ready to swim sperm when you ejaculate every day, and those are the kind of sperm that are going to be willing, ready and eager to impregnate your partner when they do finally reach her egg!

Smarter Men, Better Sperm?

Well, I suppose it does makes sense in a way that a man’s intelligence is related to how high quality his sperm are, since intelligence also correlates to a lot of other qualities about a person, whether a man or a woman.  Now there are some studies that correlate the health and quality of a man’s sperm, those little gametes that produce babies when they meet with a woman’s fertile egg, with the intelligence scores of the man they belong to. 

Maybe this explains why most women are inherently attracted more to intelligent men?  The tests that were run that appear to provide somewhat conclusive evidence of the relationship between intelligence and sperm quality were performed on about four thousands male veterans who submitted sperm samples to be evaluated, while also taking IQ tests.

Only a small portion of those men, about 12% or so though, actually submitted sperm samples.  They were also tested on their fitness as part of the quotient for healthy sperm.  What the researchers found however, was that even with this smaller sample from the test population, they were able to conclude that the higher the IQ of the men who submitted the sperm samples, the higher and healthier their sperm count was.

They don’t know of an exact reason for the correlation, however they came to the same conclusion that I did when I first read of this study. That conclusion is that intelligence correlates usually highly with fitness, and men who take care of themselves, eat the right foods and get proper exercise and nutrition tend to be more intelligent on average, and so the better sperm quality and higher sperm count appear to be related indirectly to intelligence through the fitness aspect of intelligence. 

Shortage of Sperm in the UK?

Stop the press!  There appears to be a reported shortage of donated sperm in the UK at the moment.  Yes, men can donate their sperm to sperm banks and become a sperm donor for artificial insemination if they’d like.  How do you feel about that? What if you became the biological father of someone you never meet, would you be ok with that?  Well, lots of men are, because sperm banks never really seem to have a shortage of donations of sperm/semen.  Except for now, the United Kingdom appears to have a shortage of the precious half of life making cellular structures.

The British Fertility society has reported that there is actually a shortage in willing men to give their donations of sperm lately, for reasons not totally known.  Well, actually a big potential problem, and something that may need to be repealed if they are going to have any success in the future collecting sperm samples from donors, is that Britain has passed a law that does not allow totally anonymous sperm donations.  This means a man’s privacy is not completely protected if he chooses to donate his sperm. 

That fact could definitely be offputting for thousands of men who want to give their sperm.  Men who wish to not be identified as a sperm donor by children who were fathered by their sperm sample through insemination cannot any longer be guaranteed that they will never be contacted because the knowledge is available to the kids when they become eighteen years old.

To put perspective on the sperm donor shortage, the number of women needing artificial insemination to get pregnant in the UK per year is in the thousands, and the number of male sperm donors is only in the low hundreds.  I’d say that’s a pretty bad ratio, wouldn’t you.  Maybe they’d take US men if they get desperate.  Heck, maybe they’ll start offering some cash for it! 

New Technology for IVF?

There may be new technology for IVF (In Vitro Fertilization, where a woman can be artificially inseminated to get pregnant when there are difficulties for whatever reason in achieving pregnancy)  that may reduce the odds of a woman being impregnated with multiple embryos, as is often the case now in a lot of IVF endeavors, with women having mutliple babies from it.   In fact, most women understand this fact and have to be ok with it to be able to go through the process. 

IVF is sort of a “test tube baby” sort of process.  What happens is that eggs are taken from a woman, and the sperm is taken from the man, and  those are cultivated in a petrie dish (or however else they do this, there may be some other mechanism used for all I know).  Currently, the doctor takes the most viable of the bunch and implants them into a woman’s uterus, and the hope is that one of some of them take off and start to develop into little bundles of joy. 

The newer process, and researchers are hoping a soon to be very viable and cost effective process, is that the doctors would take the most viable cells via DNA tests to determine which are the strongest and most able to develop into these blastocysts, which are the precursor to a full blown fetus, and therefore cut down on the need to cultivate multiples of babies since this is essentially what leads to multiple births – the needs to implant multiples for maximum likelihood that one or some will take and the women will be pregnant. 

Newer DNA testing and application techniques are going to make for some very exciting advances in modern day science. Already, there are several DNA tests on the horizon or at least in research and development, that may help determine serious illness before it occurs by determining likelihood of development via DNA structure and background. 

These genetic weaknesses may be able to be exploited to help find cures and tests to prevent degenerative diseases such as cancers and other things that can be prevented if caught early or put into preventive mode before they are even a problem. 

Grandpa Donates Sperm

Well, there’s even more news of the weird on the horizon, and this time it’s about a grandpa, or grandpa to be, who is donating his sperm for what is to be his own grandchild.  Yep, that’s right, this guy’s donating his swimmers to his offspring and partner so that they may use his sperm to create a child, and it would be his grandchild. 

Like you probably are, I was wondering how ethical or socially acceptable this was, but apparently the couple and the grandfather mulled this over with ethics committees and standards committees and all that good stuff before getting the go ahead to do this, which will probably be a landmark occurrence, as there are no other grandfathers who’ve knowingly donated their sperm for artificial insemination of their son or daughters offspring. 

This reminds me of a another story in this same vein that came up a couple weeks back, where a grandmother gave birth to her own grandchildren.  Talk about motherly love, this woman was not only old enough to be a grandmother, but also carried her own grandchildren in her womb for nine months all for the love of her son or daughter (not sure which it was now, I read it a while ago). 

We’re also hearing a lot about women having children at much later ages than what used to be considered non-risky, and they seem to be doing it with fairly minimal complications, as compared to years ago when getting pregnant after a certain age (40 I believe) was basically almost advised against as potentially health complicating and even life threatening for certain women.  Guess we’ve come a long way as a species, eh? 

Male Ejaculate and Fertility

There may be, in the near future, a home test that can test male semen to determine whether the man is fertile or not and can fertilize the female egg to produce offspring.  Fertility problems are either on the rise or more recognized nowadays, whether it is because we have the internet media and everyone is more aware that it is a problem or not, we do hear about fertility a lot more these days.  Usually we hear about it when it is a woman who is having fertility problems, but we know that men can have the same problems. 

A man can be sterile or simply not produce enough sperm in his semen to impregnate a woman.  Sure, college guys who are nowhere near settling down and want to have sexual intercourse with no worries about making babies may think this sounds “awesome”, but when they are older they and their partners may desire to have children of their own, and male fertility issues can prevent them from reproducing. 

The home test would be able to detect a protein in a man’s semen and determine from this whether the man is fertile or not.  Pretty high tech idea, and it may take a while to get to market.  I have a question though, why not just let doctors administer this test, or is this like the male equivalent of the female pregnancy test?  Might this tell men that they need to start consuming the best multivitamins for men that they can in hopes of strenghtening their sperm into better, stronger swimmer?  I keed, I keed of course. 

A protein chemical called MIF for short is the chemical in a man’s body that would show up in his semen.  This chemical is supposed to be responsible for making a man’s sperm strong swimmers, so to speak, so that they can make it all the way up to the female’s egg and live long enough to burrow through the egg, fertilizing it and resulting eventually in a fetus that develops into a baby.

The problem with men who are infertile is that they either do not have this chemical at all or do not have enough of it, and their sperm are rendered weaker and unable to make the swim far enough to fertilize the woman’s egg.  They end up dying before they reach their destination, basically!  This test could help doctors and couples determine what their next steps should be, and also detects who in the partnership is the one that is unable to conceive so that they can be the one that gets the necessary treatment and increases their odds of conceiving naturally. 

Viagra Fails to Get Pandas to Go At It

After a failed attempt at getting rare pandas in captivity to mate and produce offspring using Viagra, zoo and wildlife officials have turned to the help of “panda porn”.  That’s right, apparently pandas may be turned on by watching themselves (or who knows, maybe humans) having sex, and be prompted to mate with one another, producing healthy viable offspring, something that is rare and hard to keep alive in the wild. 

I didn’t know Viagra could be used on other species, but like any other unnatural and natural male sexual enhancement drugs, I suppose it would work the same on a panda, sending an increased circulation of bloodflow to the penis, and enhancing the erection, making for a better shot (no pun intended) at impregnating the female panda successfully, since Viagra is also known to sometimes increase the amount of semen that comes out of the male penis.

This would increase the female panda’s likelihood of getting pregnant, because the more sperm that the male produces and ejaculates, the more chance she has of getting one of her eggs fertilized. 

No word yet on whether the pandas have successfully mated at the point I’m writing this, but who knows, by the time this hits the web, we may be one panda ahead of the game in the race to prevent them from extinction if wildlife experts have their way!  Who would have thought that Viagra, one of the biggest male sexual enhancement drugs in history, would be possibly responsible for the savior of an endangered species?