MALE SEXUAL MYTHS: FANTASIES ABOUT PENIS /LOSS OF SEMEN IS LOSS OF VITALITY - NOCTURAL EMISSIONS OR NIGHT DISCHARGES
This is another sexual outlet. It is most common in single males between adolescence and marriage. Physical stimulation can produce erection and orgasm. During sleep the individual is not so inhibited and therefore an erection and orgasm can occur, though I have known a few male patients who have never had a nocturnal emission in their life. The sexual urge is overpowering and intercourse provides a natural release. However, when there is no opportunity for it and if the sexual urge is denied, nature takes the initiative in her own hands by producing wet-dreams or noctural emissions.
I shall reproduce my conversation with 19-year-old John.
John: Doctor, please give me a sleeping tablet. I cannot sleep at night. I lie awake for hours and I feel 1 will become mad.
Dr. RHD: Is something bothering you? You must be in love!
John: Nothing-, absolutely nothing! I have a girl friend and I am afraid even to touch her.
Dr. RHD: Do you know that masturbation is harmless and you can masturbate whenever sexual tension builds up? (One can, with years of medical practice, find out what is really bothering a patient. I felt John was not sleeping because of sexual tension.)
John: (Obviously relieved and relaxed) Is masturbation not harmful? I was taught that it is a sin. What about night discharges? Are they harmful? 1 feel so weak and run down every time I have one.
Dr. RHD: Night discharge is an absolutely normal and natural process during an erotic dream, if you deny yourself masturbation.
John: I lie awake at night tormented and tortured for hours by an erection. The harder 1 try not to masturbate, the worse it gets. When at last I fall off to sleep, I wake up suddenly with wet pyjamas and a strong sense of shame. I impressed on John that he would never win in his fight against the all-powerful sexual urge. It would be advisable to obtain relief by masturbation.
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Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction