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Many people confuse sperm and semen when referring to them. For the layman, that could be forgiven but not for an expert advising someone. Unfortunately, this is the case with many writings purportedly writing by experienced professionals to give ‘useful information’ about sexual health.
Ok. If you have been getting it wrong, you should get it right now. Semen is a fluid – a thick fluid- that comes out when you ejaculate successfully. The ejaculation of semen often comes with the orgasm – that feeling you get when you’re about to finish. The semen is the environment in which the sperm lives in. Other words for semen is cum (informal), seminal fluid, and cream (informal).
Sperm is a biological cell that lives in the semen. It contains chromosomes (23 of them for human beings) which determines our biological makeup (eg. Our gender, appearance, height, behavior, etc.) and contains information about us e.g. genetic disorders.
Oh yes. You’ve read that right. Not one, not two, not a thousand, not a million but up to 30 million sperm. Let that sink in for a while.
Yes, 30 million sperm can be found in your cum when you ejaculate. But what happens to them after that? It depends on where your cum finally lands in. If your cum is placed in a super cold environment, then it could remain alive for a very long time. Many have kept their sperm alive by freezing it for years!
However, if your sperm lands in a hot environment, then it will only have a few hours to live and after that, all of it will die. When it does, the semen becomes watery. If it lands on a woman’s vulva, then it gets a new phase of life when one of it finds an ovary and the rest dies.
You might have been led to believe that only one man can be responsible for a baby. If you believe that, you are almost certainly correct. However, 99 percent accuracy is not the same as 100 percent accuracy – and that’s where you will be wrong about that.
Yes, double fertilization is very rare but it happens. Statistically speaking only about 1 percent of human conceptions are double fertilization. Since it isn’t the normal way of having a fertilized egg, the chances of a doubly fertilized egg of surviving are very slim – only a few cases are known to have made it. Experts often doubt the possibility of this happening until the unbelievable happens.
Double fertilization is not so bad – even if it is abnormal. However, if an egg is doubly fertilized, then the chances of survival are almost zero but when it does the children are chimeras of cells with X and Y chromosomes.
You might have heard about DNA and RNA. That’s the genetic information that your body’s cells carry around. When you lose some of your body’s cell, such information often goes along with it and it says something about you.
Since your sperm is a cell, it also carries your DNA. Such information ensures that your offspring bears your characteristics – such as your color, your shape, your voice, etc. Information about you is contained in the nucleus of each sperm cell which is packed in a thread-like structure called chromosomes and it’s tightly wrapped many times over – in fact when stretched, the length of such info is longer than the distance from the earth to the moon.
In the human sperm cells,23 chromosomes form one half of an embryo (a fertilized egg). The other half is obtained from the female egg to form a zygote making it 46 chromosomes. In some cases, there may be variations in the number of chromosomes, when this happens the offspring might have a genetic disease.
Once you’ve been diagnosed with low sperm count, it becomes a serious cause for concern if you want a baby. Sometimes, you think it’s impossible to get a woman pregnant without a good sperm count. But such fears are borne out of the misunderstanding that many guys have about low sperm count.
If a man has a low sperm count, it doesn’t mean he can’t get a woman pregnant. It just means that your chances of getting a woman pregnant are low but it doesn’t rule out the possibility of that happening. Many guys with low sperm count have had their women impregnated by them without knowledge of their sperm count.
Sperm count is just a way to measure how fertile a man is. But when it is low, it means more effort is needed to get a woman pregnant which means more time for sex. Just keep trying until it works.
Most times when sperm is ejaculated, it can live outside the body for only a few seconds to a few minutes. However, it is also possible to release your cum externally and still find some of it alive after a few hours, but it takes a cold and relatively humid environment to keep those sperm alive for that long.
In other environments such as a hot tub – which is relatively hot – sperm is not known to survive beyond a few seconds after being exposed to heat and chemicals inside the water.
On the surface of a table, sperm quickly dries up and dies. On the skin, sperm doesn’t last beyond a few minutes.
The production of sperm is relatively rapid as it takes just some few hours to reproduce what has been ejaculated out of the testicles. When sperms are produced, cells that make up the sperm divides and change.
Every healthy man should be able to ejaculate once and then get ‘tired’ of having sex – that’s just the norm. However, it is possible to have more sex and more ejaculations during sexual intercourse. If you can go multiple rounds, then you are said to have great sexual stamina.
What makes a man able to go more than one round of sex? The reasons are many but simple to understand. Firstly, the consumption of healthy foods enables such an ability. Foods rich in zinc, iron, magnesium helps the production of sperm and enables multiple rounds of sex.
Secondly, the consumption of sexual enhancement drugs such as Viagra can help the production of semen. Also, many herbal sexual enhancement pills are a solution to the production of semen in the body and they’re also a cure for erectile dysfunction problems.
When an individual consumes healthy foods or substances that supplement these foods, he helps his sexual performance in addition to is overall body health.
When the semen is considered, it is often thought of as the environment where the sperm lives that facilitate its movement and reproductive activities. One thing that’s not even considered as a function of the semen is the fact that it protects it from harm in an external environment
Only at puberty periods does the sperm begin to form in the human body. During such times, the body’s immune system must have known which part of your cells forms part of your body and which are. This simply means that since your semen are left to its own ‘body’ – i.e. the testicles in this case – it could easily be read as an invade and attacked by your body’s immune system. It is for this reason the testicles are in an environment that's external to your body's organs.
Beyond protection, the semen also provides nutrients for the sperm which helps it to survive for sometime before it dies.
When you take a look at the testicles, you might say that’s where the semen is produced because without it you won’t be able to produce semen. Well, you are partially right. The fact is, semen is produced in three different parts of the body namely the testicles, the seminal vesicles, and the prostate.
In the prostate, the milky substance is formed. This substance is full of enzymes, proteins, and minerals from which the sperm draws its nutrient to help its growth and development. When a man ejaculates, this is the substance he gets familiar with and calls it sperm. But there are other substances underneath produced by other parts of the body.
The seminal vesicles produce fructose and much more of the fluid which forms your semen. A low level of fructose in the sperm is associated with a lack of testosterone and androgen – both hormones are essential to sperm production.
The testicles – which is informally referred to as balls – is where the sperm cells are produced. The sperm determines a man’s fertility.
If you’ve been reading this article from the very start, you might have read that the sperm can survive outside the body but not for long. However, everything takes a twist once that sperm is ejaculated inside a woman’s vulva.
When a man ejaculates on his spouse uterus, the sperm cells find themselves in a conducive environment as it is provided with suitable temperature and nutrients required for its activity. In the semen, all 30 million sperm begin their first competition of life by ‘swimming’ all their way through to find an ovary(ies) in the fallopian tubes that are ready for them. When that’s done, the fertilized egg becomes a zygote and it finds its way to the uterus where it develops and forms a baby. This process can last for up to 5 days after ejaculation and it will develop into something else upon successful fertilization. In the human body, there is no such cell with such an ability.
In conclusion, we discussed ten things men might not have known about semen. We hope that this information can help you learn about the male body and semen health and that you can make better decisions regarding your health and lifestyle.