Seed jam

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The congestion of semen is a modern legend which says that the male testicle with continued sperm production during sexual abstinence and lack of emptying through sexual intercourse or masturbation leads to increased libido and to an alleged swelling of the scrotum .

In fact, new sperm are constantly being produced in the testes, but sooner or later unused sperm are either resorbed by the male body and thus dissolved or expelled in a pollution . This means that there is no permanent "backlog" of the semen.

However, after a sexual act or prolonged, strong arousal without ejaculation, there may be a sensation of pressure or pain in the epididymis and the vas deferens . In colloquial language this is also called seed congestion. In fact, it is a cavalier pain (also known as “groom's pain”) that is triggered by cramps in the smooth muscles .

Medically, a real sperm congestion is temporarily possible after surgical interruption of the vas deferens. But even in this case, after some time, the sperm produced will be absorbed by the male body without any signs of disease.

reception

In colloquial language , the “seed congestion” legend is discussed more often by men , mostly by adolescents and young adults, and especially in “pure male societies” in the form of rant . The legend is occasionally also used in literary works , especially in the genres “young novel” and “social satire”, for example by the Austrian writer Thomas Glavinic , who in his novel How to live his contemporary and tragicomic “good-for-nothing” narrator character , Karl Kolostrum , suffers from a "permanent seed congestion".

literature

  • Stephan Dressler, Christoph Zink: Pschyrembel Dictionary Sexuality . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2003, ISBN 3-11-016965-7 , pp. 120, 453.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arne Hoffmann: A question of size: how often men think of sex. - And other questions you never dared ask . Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-641-04119-9 , p. 183.
  2. ↑ Carlos Thomas: Special Pathology . Schattauer, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-7945-2110-4 , p. 388.
  3. ↑ For example, the young German writer Manuel J. Hartung reports in his debut work Der Uni-Roman about the reception of the well-known joke rhyme " Check shirt and seed jam - I study mechanical engineering" ( Memento from January 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (In: The university novel. Manuel J. Hartung reads from his first work in 1LIVE Klubbing ; review by Jan Drees, TV station 1Live , undated; accessed: February 11, 2008)
  4. ↑ Thomas Glavinic: How to Live . Roman, dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-24392-9 .
  5. ↑ Restlessness of the heart. Thomas Glavinic: “How to live” , review by Hajo Steinert, Deutschlandfunk , July 7, 2004