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Posted: Sun May 20th, 2007 07:50 pm |
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| do any of you all have wet dreams or nocturnal emissions? I know that if you don't masturbate that is apparently what is supposed to happen as your body gives itself release. I"m on day 9 and I haven't had anything like that. In fact I've never had anything like that. Is it healthy that I have gone 9 days and not had one of those?
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Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 09:29 pm |
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Hello, spe102580. One reliable source of information says 90% of men and 40% of women will have had at least one spontaneous orgasm (usually in sleep) by age 45 (Katchadourian and Lunde, Fundamentals of Human Sexuality, 2nd ed., 1975, p. 264). Although we have those somewhat vague statistics on occurrence, the phenomenon itself has been studied even less by scientists and I shall have to speak to it from experience (I am a 52-year-old man, married at 33). Nocturnal emissions are completely erratic: once I had them three nights in a row, at other times I have gone for weeks without one. Therefore you do not need to worry you are abnormal if you have not had one after just a few days of abstention, or even if you never have one. What causes them? This is one of the mysteries of how the spinal cord communicates with the rest of the body. Since semen production by the glands is steady but wet dreams are uncorrelated with that and unpredictable, we can set aside as false the common idea that wet dreams happen when one's tubes (the vas deferens) are full. By the way, if semen does not get ejaculated it is simply re-absorbed by the tissues. Another untrue theory is that wet dreams are stimulated by contact between the genitalia and the bedclothes. I have had them whether lying on my back, on my side, or on my belly, indifferently (I sleep without clothing); always when motionless, without any pressure or friction. Nor are dreams the cause, for dreams happen in the brain, yet in one clinical case a man whose spinal cord had been severed nevertheless had nocturnal emissions (same source as above). Dreams are rather the effect in the subconscious mind of what is going on in the body at the time. Owing to the fact that wet dreams are involuntary, there is universal agreement among Christian ethicists that they are a non-issue morally and one should not feel guilty over them or try to stop them happening; if one wakes on the brink of a climax, most would allow the climax to come on its own, or, failing that, would not quibble about deft use of the hand to mollify the situation. Moreover the accompanying dreams are not under our conscious control and should not provoke introspection, whatever their content. God judges our deliberate choices, not the range of possibilities that play across the screen of our mind's eye. Why did the Creator in his providence program this phenomenon into our lives? Apparently just to give us a tangible sign that we are sexual beings, whether we are consciously active sexually or not.
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