Popular Misconception about Balls
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:33 pm
Hope this isn't too far off topic.
I've gleaned from discussions, accounts, memes, etc that most men, at last the young ones, think that semen is produced and stored in their balls. Thus the origin of terms like "busting a nut," or the practice of squeezing the balls during ejaculation to get more semen, like squeezing an orange to get juice. Most seem ignorant of the anatomical fact that only 5% or less of their semen comes from the balls. Even this does not come directly from the balls, but rather the epididymis, the tubules where the sperm mature. The prostate produces about 25%, the cloudy white portion, with the bulk of semen, around 70%, produced and stored in two glands connected to the prostate, the seminal vesicles. So-called "blue balls" are not due to congested semen.
The obvious conclusion for us is that a healthy male, castrated with immediate T therapy, should notice no difference in his ejaculate. Most of us probably don't fit in this slot, having reduced T levels prior to the cut.
It just bothers me that so many seem ignorant of their own anatomy. How many think the heart is all in the left side of the chest? My parents refused to get me glasses because I would become "dependent" on them, and my eyes would get "weaker." My late mother would complain that her kidneys hurt while putting her hand over her bladder. Unoxygenated blood is not blue -- it's just not as bright red. And, for God's sake, the penis is not a muscle!
Is it the education system? Is it peer-group "science?" Is it aliens?
I've gleaned from discussions, accounts, memes, etc that most men, at last the young ones, think that semen is produced and stored in their balls. Thus the origin of terms like "busting a nut," or the practice of squeezing the balls during ejaculation to get more semen, like squeezing an orange to get juice. Most seem ignorant of the anatomical fact that only 5% or less of their semen comes from the balls. Even this does not come directly from the balls, but rather the epididymis, the tubules where the sperm mature. The prostate produces about 25%, the cloudy white portion, with the bulk of semen, around 70%, produced and stored in two glands connected to the prostate, the seminal vesicles. So-called "blue balls" are not due to congested semen.
The obvious conclusion for us is that a healthy male, castrated with immediate T therapy, should notice no difference in his ejaculate. Most of us probably don't fit in this slot, having reduced T levels prior to the cut.
It just bothers me that so many seem ignorant of their own anatomy. How many think the heart is all in the left side of the chest? My parents refused to get me glasses because I would become "dependent" on them, and my eyes would get "weaker." My late mother would complain that her kidneys hurt while putting her hand over her bladder. Unoxygenated blood is not blue -- it's just not as bright red. And, for God's sake, the penis is not a muscle!
Is it the education system? Is it peer-group "science?" Is it aliens?