# How many ejaculations does it take before a dry orgasm? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 10, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893 "2018-05-10T01:57:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/21 "2018-05-10T16:32:36Z")
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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/22 "2018-05-10T16:47:29Z")
_Crunch_ Well, arrgh. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/23 "2018-05-10T16:51:36Z")
Since the answer to this is enormously variable and probably hasn’t been the subject of controlled studies, and most answers so far have been anecdotes or jokes, let’s move this to IMHO. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/24 "2018-05-10T17:13:38Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > (If anyone was curious, one of my sorority sisters won with just over a hundred over the course of 9 days.) If I were 40 years younger and single, I’d be asking for her phone number. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/25 "2018-05-10T17:38:37Z")
I can’t even imagine ejaculating that many times. I have this mental image of my testicles imploding like the house in Poltergeist or that movie I can’t remember where the armored guy is crinkled up and sucked in by some device. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/26 "2018-05-10T18:54:38Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > see - that’s where i’m at. i guess i figured it was different for guys? now you’ve made me wonder if it was less embarrassing to claim rug burn than to admit they just weren’t interested. huh. I think it will depend on the guy. Judging by some of the answers here, it seems that most men have a far higher sex drive than I do, I guess. I mean, when my wife and I were trying for a baby, I think she had me go seven or ten days in a row and I was just done after that, and that was just once a day. We eventually spaced it out to once every other day, and that was much more doable. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/27 "2018-05-10T19:54:15Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > From [here:](http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/article/semen) > > I haven’t been able to find information on the storage capacity of the ampulla and vas deferens, where semen is stored after production. However, other sites indicate that daily semen production is about 5 ml. Therefore the total daily production could be exhausted by anywhere from 50 to just one ejaculation. However, it most cases it would be exhausted by only 3 ejaculations. More than this would be unusual. The hydration aspect is what caught my interest here, my volume has really decreased in the last decade but for some reason so has my desire to stay hydrated. I stay in a constant state of mild dehydration. I never connected the two. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/28 "2018-05-10T20:40:29Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > > [@Lasciel](#): > > > > (If anyone was curious, one of my sorority sisters won with just over a hundred over the course of 9 days.) > > If I were 40 years younger and single, I’d be asking for her phone number. 😃 I don’t think she needs you. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/29 "2018-05-10T21:35:25Z")
Reminds me of the old joke about the guy who claimed he could ejaculate ten times in an hour. When the time came, he failed to get more than six. “I don’t know what’s wrong. It went fine at rehearsal this morning!” ---
**Author:** ![Santelia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Santelia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santelia)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/30 "2018-05-10T21:40:06Z")
> [@md2000](#): > > Some comedian was talking about this related topic once. He pointed out that men are filled with the “essence of life” and so take the initiative to begin sex while the woman is tired and just wants to sleep. When they’re done, the man has passed this on to the woman. Now she wants to cuddle and chat and so on while all he wants to do is roll over and sleep because he’s drained of that essence of liveliness. “I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence.” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/31 "2018-05-10T21:47:12Z")
When I was 18, and in my first relationship (and my girlfriend had a very strong libido), I was like the Energizer Bunny. I could come, not lose the erection, and just keep going until I came again. That made me very popular with her. 😉 We had a couple of weekend-long trysts, during which I probably orgasmed a dozen times or more over the course of the weekend. I don’t remember ever completely “firing a blank,” though there probably wasn’t much there by the last few. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/32 "2018-05-10T22:16:43Z")
My girlfriend just reminded me of a weekend about 20 years ago where she claims I got off 13 times. She is usually pretty good about stuff like this but I don’t know about 13. I was about 49 at the time. If I really did I am certain I was shooting blanks. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/33 "2018-05-10T23:10:04Z")
Dry orgasms, far more often than not, are _retrograde ejaculations_, and are NOT due to lack of semen. Generally due to an enlarged prostate, orgasm results in the semen being blocked by the prostate gland, and ending up going backwards into the bladder. Later, after detumescence generally the bladder can be slowly emptied by persistence and lengthy concentration. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/34 "2018-05-11T17:57:14Z")
This is kind of like asking “How long does it take for a guy to empty his bladder?”. I depends on a lot of factors, up to and including whether Depends are involved. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893/35 "2018-05-11T19:12:42Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > This is kind of like asking “How long does it take for a guy to empty his bladder?”. I depends on a lot of factors, up to and including whether Depends are involved. TMI but, FWIW, I remember getting into a car for a 90 minute ride home from whatever bar we were in. I’d downed a few pints and didn’t stop to pee before we left. There was no stopping and I’ve never been in such pain in my life. I could barely stand up when I got out of the car and hopped to a nearby bush. I knew this was going to be a long piss and, for some reason, decided to time it. Two full minutes. That’s a lot of damn urine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ejaculations-does-it-take-before-a-dry-orgasm/813893.md?page=1)