Ejaculate
Depending on the definition of the term ejaculation, ejaculate refers to the "effusion" ( secretion ) caused by an orgasm of a male adolescent or sexually mature man either with or possibly without the presence of sperm . The term is also used for the seminal fluid of other mammals, in which the biological processes are similar.
With the man
Prepubescent
Since in some boys even before puberty from the accessory sex glands in particular the prostate with appropriate may be able to stimulate a secretion to form, it is in boys in childhood possible that even one or more years before reaching sexual maturity at an orgasm an - albeit very small - excretion of predominantly prostate secretion takes place. The excreted ejaculate consists solely of secretions ( seminal plasma ) without the presence of sperm, since as a rule no sperm are formed in the testes at this point in time.
Post-puberty
Since after puberty, in the course of which normally the sperm begins to form ( spermarche ), a azoospermia by various diseases such as by a degeneration of the seminiferous tubules ( seminiferous tubules ) or by an intentional vas deferens by separation at sterilization may be caused and yet the physiologically still Undisturbed process of an effusion of seminal plasma when reaching an orgasm is also referred to as ejaculation by medical professionals, an ejaculate that has come about in this way consists again only of secretions without the presence of sperm.
However, if ejaculation is only understood to mean “ejaculation” in a healthy, sexually mature man, the term ejaculate is synonymous with sperm .
With the woman
Since secretions from the paraurethral gland are released in about a third of women, and even in these only irregularly, when they reach orgasm , this process is sometimes referred to as female ejaculation in the sense of a seedless effusion and this discharge is then also referred to as female ejaculate.