Your Sperm and You

[FHwku]

..."By the time females reach their teen years, their eggs have already been formed—just one new egg matures each month. Men, on the other hand, produce millions of sperm cells every time they ejaculate. After each ejaculation, they must literally replicate those cells, and each replication multiplies the chance for a DNA "copy error"—a genetic chink in the sperm DNA. The more ejaculations a man produces, the greater the chance for chinks to arise, leading to increased point mutation and thus increased infertility and birth defects. While a woman's reproductive capacity halts more or less abruptly after all her eggs have been used up somewhere in their forties or fifties, men experience a longer, more gradual winnowing and disintegration. "We believe that something in men's DNA replication machinery keeps becoming less efficient and less accurate with age, and the problems accumulate."

-Ethylin Wang Jabs, professor of pediatric genetics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore

i tend to look for parallels between religious/spiritual views and genuine scientific reason (e.g. Scientific Adam & Eve.) the idea that it is a sin to waste your seed is found in taoist, hindu, christian, jewish and other traditions. maybe not so much a "sin" as it is wasteful to expend this precious treasure for reasons other than procreation.

i don't plan on having kids. so i'll continue sowing my wild oats. it's just something i thought was interesting.

here's one of the articles i where i was reading about degeneration in sperm cell DNA...

*on a side note, the professor's name i quoted at the top, Professor Ethylin Wang Jabs, could not have a funnier name for the purposes of this post.

[Senusret I]

I have never heard of sperm cell degeneration until this moment.

I'm screwed.

[DaemonSeid]

My jaw just dropped...holy hell.

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by FHwku

*on a side note, the professor's name i quoted at the top, Professor Ethylin Wang Jabs, could not have a funnier name for the purposes of this post.

LOL

[DiamondAthena]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I'm screwed.

Bwahahaha!!!! If I could I'd point and laugh or at least post a cool gif doing so, but I suck at gc life....

[TSteven]

Every Sperm is Sacred from "Monty Python's Meaning of Life"

[knight_shadow]

Yikes.

Aside from the actual content and the professor's name, I am disturbed that they couldn't find a better word than "chinks."

"The more ejaculations a man produces, the greater the chance for chinks to arise."

Fa real, though?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Yikes.

Aside from the actual content and the professor's name, I am disturbed that they couldn't find a better word than "chinks."

"The more ejaculations a man produces, the greater the chance for chinks to arise."

Fa real, though?

Well, that is the real meaning of it - chinks in your armor et al.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well, that is the real meaning of it - chinks in your armor et al.

Right, but the other meaning has been thrust into the forefront.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Right, but the other meaning has been thrust into the forefront.

Quite possible that it's used to talk about DNA so exclusively in their community they're used to it and not sensitive to the other meaning. This is a case where I wouldn't complain about either even if it does make me look twice.

I do question whether sperm only regenerate after ejaculation or not. I was under the impression it was rather constant and thus any degeneration would also be constant and not correlated with the number of times he ejaculates.

ETA: I want a poll option saying "whatever the hell they want to do it's their life"

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Right, but the other meaning has been thrust into the forefront.

Actually, I didn't think about it until you mentioned it.

And LOL at "thrust."

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Actually, I didn't think about it until you mentioned it.

And LOL at "thrust."

That was the only thing I thought about when reading it.

And thrust doesn't get much use nowadays. Trying to bring it back lol

[agzg]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Actually, I didn't think about it until you mentioned it.

And LOL at "thrust."

LOL particularly given the context of the thread.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by agzg

LOL particularly given the context of the thread.

I actually thought of you when I was typing.

"I always take a deep breath when I meet a man. It THRUSTS my breasts forward!" LOL

[agzg]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I actually thought of you when I was typing.

"I always take a deep breath when I meet a man. It THRUSTS my breasts forward!" LOL

Why are all of your thoughts about me lately centered on breasts?

ETA: I guess I should indicate that I got that, Blanche.