Originally posted by: SnapIT
	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by: floccus
	
	
		
		
			Nope, that is completely wrong, the body does not "get rid of old sperm through wet dreams" the body reabsorbs it...
		
		
	 
The first mechanism is to realease it.  The second is much more costly in terms of energy because the body doesn't like destroying its own cells unless it abs. has to.  Its sort of analagous to fat cells.  When you lose weight your fat cells shrink instead of being destroyed b/c the body doesn't want to destroy something it took energy to create.
For the guy with the vasectomy, the reason your testicles don't explode is that your body notices that there is a blockage and is forced to destroy and reabsorb the sperm.  This takes energy to accomplish, which when added to the energy used in creating the sperm in the first place, comes out to be unfavorable.
		
 
		
	 
Wrong again, an orgasm is one of the most energy consuming things for the body to perform, far more energy consuming than breaking down cells and reabsorbing them (the body does this with cells at all times during the day)...
Some males never have wet dreams, or have only one or two their whole lives. The old theory was that sperm built up in the male and if it did not come out in masturbation or other sexual activity it would have to come out in some other way: namely wet dreams. According to that theory someone who was masturbating or having other regular sexual outlets would not have a buildup of semen and wet dreams would not occur. But the new evidence is that it is not so clear-cut as all that. Evidently the body can and does reabsorb unused sperm and the occurrence of wet dreams is not so closely related to the absence of other sexual outlets as was once thought. Some males stop having wet dreams about the time they start masturbating. Others only have wet dreams during times in their lives when they are very sexually active. Still others have frequent wet dreams no matter what they do, while yet others never or almost never have them.
Will you have more wet dreams if you stop masturbating or have fewer if you do masturbate? Maybe. Maybe not.
A thing that really shoots down the old sperm-build-up theory is that it is now recognized that some women have sexual dreams leading to orgasm. This doesn't tell us a lot about the function of sexual dreams, but it does indicate that getting rid of excess sperm is not the right answer.