# Copious amounts of ejaculate **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 12, 2001, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669 "2001-01-12T08:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![PepperJett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@PepperJett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PepperJett)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/61 "2001-01-16T23:41:18Z")
A quick question refering to the first posting by Doobieous. He states that the average amount of ejaculate is 3cc. The 70’s pop/rock band 10CC (Not in Love, The Things We Do For Love) named themselves after the supposed avg. ammount of ejaculate. What is the real avg. amount? ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/62 "2001-01-17T00:55:23Z")
How about this & as a plus I give you the URL from, of all places, webmd: "It sounds like you’ve attached significant meaning to the volume of semen a man ejaculates. Your letter indicates that you’ve made this leap based on the way many characters in explicit videos react to semen, which is nearly always released in a very visible manner known as the “cum shot.” In both straight- and gay-themed videos, everyone seems to love semen. But it bears remembering that these are actors in movies. The reality is that when you see semen being ejaculated in videos, you’re seldom seeing footage of a man in a single sexual experience. Quite often, several ejaculations are pieced together with a little editing-room magic. Other times, multiple cameras are used to capture a single experience from many different angles. Thanks to those tricks, an experience that generally takes about three to five seconds in real life often lasts more than 20 seconds in videos. If those scenes were truly showing one sexual experience, that would be a lot of semen! The lecithin story may be another urban legend that has circulated because some people really want to believe that there are men who are capable of such extraordinary sexual feats. Neither I nor any of several colleagues I spoke to have ever heard of it being used this way. If you enjoy porn-star secrets, however, you might find it interesting to learn that in the “early days” of modern explicit films – the 1970s – Tame Creme Rinse was often splashed on the chests of eager, squirming partners who were busily acting out their excitement over the male sexual prowess this fluid was supposed to represent. I’d recommend that you enjoy your sexual experience (whether in masturbation or with a partner) as a whole pleasurable experience. Avoid zeroing in on this brief aspect of the experience that has no bearing on fertility, masculinity or partner fulfillment. Besides, stopping to break out the measuring spoons and scoop up semen seems to me like a surefire way to break the mood. URL:[http://onhealth.webmd.com/lifestyle/columnist/item,89632.asp](http://onhealth.webmd.com/lifestyle/columnist/item,89632.asp) Thank you for the applause 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_Nazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Soup\_Nazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_Nazi)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/63 "2001-01-17T01:51:02Z")
Yo, send me the link please. Send to [nchumley@hotmail.com](mailto:nchumley@hotmail.com) Thanks alot peeps! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/64 "2001-01-17T01:51:30Z")
**handy** …ahem…with all due respect…what was that supposed to prove? Were you giving up on your argument? Because all that really said was that the amount of semen doesn’t matter. > [@](#): > > \*\*Quite often, several ejaculations are pieced > together with a little editing-room magic. Other times, > multiple cameras are used to capture a single > experience from many different angles. \*\* Anyone who has seen the video knows that this doesn’t apply to it. > [@](#): > > \*\*The lecithin story may be another urban legend \*\* You fail to mention what ‘the lecithin story’ is. > [@](#): > > **in the “early days” > of modern explicit films – the 1970s – Tame Creme > Rinse was often splashed on the chests of eager, > squirming partners** Again, this obviously doesn’t apply. > [@](#): > > **Thank you for the applause 🙂** I’ll be happy to applaud you once you earn it. Frankly I think it’s fake too but what you just posted really doesn’t even relate to what we’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/65 "2001-01-17T02:02:34Z")
Seeing as how I have not yet received the link to the video (though I did, strangely enough, get one _request_ for it emailed to me) I don’t know if this is possible, but could it be very carefully spliced/looped video? Or does each squirt stay on screen? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/66 "2001-01-17T02:36:49Z")
YO. Send me the clip, too! [askia@sc.rr.com](mailto:askia@sc.rr.com) ---
**Author:** ![Henry\_Weinhard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Henry\_Weinhard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henry_Weinhard)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/67 "2001-01-17T03:41:46Z")
[clayboy13@hotmail.com](mailto:clayboy13@hotmail.com) Though it sounds like I’m joining this a little late in the game. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/68 "2001-01-17T04:31:57Z")
OK, I finally saw it and my spidey-sense tells me its fake, but I can’t place just how. Here are a few things that I find suspicious. 1. The cum’s consistancy seems a little to steady, especially considering the volume. 2. The guys balls seem far too static, they don’t seem to move inside his sack at all, perhaps a bit of movie magic there. Of course the size is quite odd too. 3. His grip looks a little unnatural, especially the way his thumb and ring/pinky fingers seem to rest awkwardly. Almost as if he’s using them to press something. They also remain essentially obscured throughout the session. 4. He only spurts when his hand presses down at the base, excepting the first large spurt. This also suggests a mechanical assist of some kind. The first large one could be accounted for by the initial volume contained in the tube/urethra. Also his hand never leaves the shaft either. 5. He starts coming as soon as the video starts, this could be there to hide something. But it could also be to conserve bandwidth, but who knows. 6. He is limp as soon as he’s done, and perhaps during the orgasm he is limp too, with his hand there its hard to tell, but if he is hard he sure went limp fast, too fast. The fact he’s pretty small implies he’s limp during as well. Now, none of these are concrete, and they all could probably be explained as trying to hard to find a flaw, or explained as just coincidence. Nevertheless, something seems fishy. The troublesome thing is that at the end of the orgasm he pulls his hand away and I can’t see any place where a tube or pump could be hidden. Basically I think its fake based both on the circumstances of the clip, and the simple ridiculous volume. That said I have no idea how its done. ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/69 "2001-01-17T04:45:11Z")
Apologies for sending the link late, but any who posted here, or sent me an email, i’m putting your names on a mailing list from my school account, because with yahoo it’s a bitch (I have a 33.6k modem and am on dialup, so it’s torture). You’ll get it soon, in fact i’m going to start the email right now. Oh and Mr Cynical is a huge sissy too. ---
**Author:** ![jovius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@jovius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovius)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/70 "2001-01-17T04:47:06Z")
Umm, I’m not really into seeing a guy cream but . . . For pure, scientific knowledge’s sake, I’m curious to see the clip… email [kurston69@hotmail.com](mailto:kurston69@hotmail.com) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/71 "2001-01-17T06:51:29Z")
Well, I finally saw the video. We know that it’s not video editing. There are no cutaways; it’s a single shot, and you can clearly see the jizz piling up on the floor. So that leaves me with one conclusion, which is blindingly obvious now that I have seen this. He is able to accomplish this feat because _he’s not circumcised!!!_ Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Abe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Abe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/72 "2001-01-17T08:44:31Z")
This video is unbelievable. Here is my take based on my activities, some reading, and on pornography I have seen. 1. CONSISTENCY OF EJACULATE I don’t see any problems here. Many men have ejaculate that is consistent. In actual fact, semen can be a bit lumpy or somewhat watery, but it can also be perfectly milky or yellowy. The fact that this ejaculate has a tinge of yellow–normally a highly undesirable colour in pornographic cumshots–leads me to think it may be real. 2. VOLUME clearly it is the volume of ejaculate that is surprising. I owuld have to say though that in the world of sex you are constantly being surprised. Peter North’s cumshots, guys with penises 14 inches long and more, women who ejaculate copiously (1 litre) when administered intense anal sex–all these things are surprising. This video could be yet one more surprising thing in the enormous spectrum of human sexuality. Not the norm, certainly, but it _could_ be real. 3. THE BALLS They are huge, but all in all they don’t **really** look fake. It has been mentioned that they don’t move naturally, but I am not sure how they are supposed to move? When a man comes the testicles are partially retracted and therefore do not sway or move too much. Experts in ball movement can add their say, because this is a field I have never paid too much attention to. As for the fullness and size of the balls, perhaps that is due to a condition of hyperactivity? I seem to remember that the bulk volume of ejaculate is actually produced by the prostate gland, and not in the testicles. What is going on here? 4. THE METHODS a) Definitely not Tantra. In spite of the mysticism attached to anything Tantric, these sex practices are nothing abnormal. The two practices taught by SOME Tantric practitioners that do increase ejaculate volume are prostate massage and ejaculation delay. In my opinion they could not possibly amount for that of volume of ejaculate. b) Drugs, herbs, etc. I don’t know about these, to my knowledge there is nothing that increases ejaculate, although I have heard from a friend (anecdotal evidence!) that “poppers” make one cum a lot more than normal. Still in my opinion not enough to account for that kind of volume. I guess the answer still eludes us (it certainly eludes me). ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/73 "2001-01-17T08:48:45Z")
I remember hearing of a tantric method that will redirect the semen into the bladder, a way to have a semenless orgasm. The only side effect was that your urine might be a bit cloudy afterwards. If this is true, if a person had emptied their bladder and was somewhat dehydrated so it did not refill as quickly, and had multiple orgasms, all of them redirected into the bladder, could this explain the video? ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/74 "2001-01-17T08:51:46Z")
Another possibility occurred to me. I have read that people trying to pass drug tests where they know they are going to have a person actually watch them urinate into the cup have had ‘clean’ urine injected into their bladder through a long hypodermic needle. Could this guy have had some semen-like substance injected into his bladder, and what we are seeing is actually him pissing it out? That would tie in with the apparent flaccidity of his penis (hard to piss when erect). ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/75 "2001-01-17T09:23:31Z")
**badtz** , I was thinking along those same lines. If it’s a fake, and I don’t think it is, dude could have simply filled his bladder up with Elmer’s and water, jerked his dude around on videocamera for a couple of seconds, and pisses all over the room in short spurts. jb I gotta go rewatch the video. My doubts are raised the more I think… ---
**Author:** ![Abe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Abe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/76 "2001-01-17T09:42:25Z")
Badtz Maru, the practice you refer to is known as retrograde ejaculation. It is not supposed to be particularly healthy, and the effect it has is nothing at all like this video! In fact, it is somewhat difficult to urninate after a retrograde ejaculation. The amount this guy is spurting, I am ruling out retrograde ejaculation completely. As for the second theorem, having had something injected in the bladder also sounds a bit… outlandish, but possible I guess. Why anyone would do it is a mystery. I don’t think this guy’s penis is soft. He goes soft at the end, but he’s just been coming for 30 seconds–he is supposed to go soft! It doesn’t look like he has a particularly small penis either, although it is by no means large. If this is a fake, I am guessing that the ejaculate is coming from some container in his fake balls, and that the point of departure for the ejaculate should be looked at very closely. I’m not sure it is a fake though–from over here the penis actually looks like it is spurting. Mystifying. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/77 "2001-01-17T09:51:04Z")
Do most guy’s dicks go soft that fast? I know mine stays hard for about a minute (or more) after I come. ---
**Author:** ![Abe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Abe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/78 "2001-01-17T10:24:45Z")
depends on the orgasm and the circumstances. Mine can go soft in a few seconds, a few minutes, or not at all after an orgasm, and judging from pornography the same is true for most actors and (I am assuming) most men. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/79 "2001-01-17T13:56:21Z")
Oh, what the hell. I’m in. [plnnr@hotmail.com](mailto:plnnr@hotmail.com) ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669/80 "2001-01-17T15:01:38Z")
That’s nuts. I too think it must be a fake, but it sure looks real. I was expecting something along the lines of 6-7x the normal amount…this guy is spurting close to 12 oz of semen. That’s just insane. The thing for me is just how entirely flacid the guy is at the end, and how watery the semen is. That stuff is the consistency of tea…which is not very convincing. The guy is totally and completely limp at the end, not even semi-hard. I will give the people credit…the thing looks incredibly real, but I can’t believe that this is a real shot. This guy expels 10 times MORE than Peter North. that’s pretty hard to do. Here’s one way I can see they could do it: 1. The guy has a circumsized penis. 2. The effects guys add a fake foreskin to hide the tube, which is attached on the top of the penis and the opening is right at the same height as the hole. 3. The fake balls contain his real balls, a small pump, and huge sack of fake semen (the things look pressurized.) 4. When he’s done, he slides the fake foreskin up to hide the apparatus, and lets go. Now, problems with my analysis…the stuff truly does look like it’s coming directly out of his hole. The balls, while outrageously big, do look real. If this isn’t a fake…I hope this guy doesn’t do this every time he comes…when actually having sex with his girlfriend or something, they’d need a bucket at the end to avoid getting mildew in the mattress! Jman [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copious-amounts-of-ejaculate/49669.md?page=5)