Where do you think the expression “starching your shorts” comes from?
If he manages to pull off 7 ejaculations a night there is going to be some serious evidence at hand. If he is using tissue’s then maybe he doesn’t understand that the penis will purge itself after each one and that’s why he’s changing clothes. I’d expect him to figure it out pretty quick if you’re on to his little research project.
Sorry for the puns. It’s not like the subject ever came up in my family.
You’d advocate taking a young boy discovering his sexuality to Dr. Smith? :dubious:
That’s the most terrifying picture I’ve EVER seen.
Don’t ever, ever use the phrase “discovered the joy of masturbation” with a 12-year-old boy. He’ll clam up faster than a cheetah with diarrhea.
(Umm, I was born in 1974. I had to not only click the link, but read the accompanying words to find out who Dr. Smith is. I still don’t get it. I’m a stupid, stupid child.
But the kid in that picture looks pretty satisfied.)
Perhaps you can have your husband talk to him about it? It might be less embarassing coming from Dad.
Caphis, Ace309 - What a sec. What I said was intended to *minimize *embarrassment, not eradicate it completely. While odds are that this is a masturbation issue, there is a very real chance that it isn’t. If the poor kid has a medical condition - if he has a UTI, or BPH, or (Godforbid) gonorrhea, then his mother needs to know. Embarrassment be damned - he might need medical attention!
No, I never was a 12 year old boy. If you have a better way to ask the kid if his penis is leaking, then let’s hear it. But to ignore the issue so as not to embarrass the kid at all could be putting his health at risk.
This may be my (blonde) roots showing, but I don’t get it?
He was a character on the television show “Lost in Space.”
The best description of his character was provided by the writers of “The Family Guy”:
(And, FTR, I was born several years after you were. I caught it on reruns as a kid. ;))
I wouldn’t dismiss the idea that it could be related to OCD. Granted I was never a teen boy, but seven times a night, every night, sounds like a lot if he’s just jerking off. By now he would have figured out to keep a sock under the bed like everyone else 
If he feels ‘dirty’ he may be compulsively changing.
Otherwise, the fact that he says he’s not shaking properly makes me wonder if he is leaking urine a little bit. Maybe he doesn’t realize he is leaking and he thinks he just didn’t shake it all off when he sees a few drops of urine in his underwear.
I agree that you may have to, well, take a closer look at the…evidence. If he is ejaculating into his underwear it should be fairly apparent. (You all know what I mean…right?)
Is is possible you could arrange a trip to his Dr., maybe for a general checkup? Maybe it can be set up so he doesn’t know exactly why you arranged it. The Dr. can make sure nothing is medically wrong, then at least you can rule that out. And perhaps he will feel more comfortable talking to a Dr.
I have been told that if a mother talks to her 12 year old son about his masturbating habits, the boy will promptly burst into flames. So I have been warned about the future with my son.
Ejaculate can be quite slimey (and I imagine slippery).
I remember when I was about 12, I first noticed that when I got erections, “stuff” seeped out once in a while. I wasn’t masturbating yet, it was just the onset of pre-come.
I also remember it felt really gross when it would get my underwear wet and touch my skin. I think I may have changed the underroos more than a few times just to get that wet feeling away.
He might not be masturbating in the traditional sense of the word. But I would imagine the juices are starting to flow, and the erections may be getting to be more frequent, and this discharge may just be weirding him out. I mean, who wants damp undies?
Happy
I know but… was he just standing in the shower with the water off? I’m a girl, so my experiences with semen in the shower are limited to times when I have a male companion, but I’ve never had a problem with slippery-ness. After a few seconds, it just washed down the drain.
I’m not suggesting to ignore the potential for health risk, just that your idea may be more embarassing than is necessary. Perhaps I’d go as far as to say “Your not shaking properly/changing too often/urine soaked underwear worries me that something might be wrong… do you know if something’s wrong? I’m going to make an appointment with Dr. Juarez if it hasn’t stopped I’m going to make an appointment next week if it hasn’t gotten any better by then.” That would probably be enough to tip him off to be a bit more subtle about his ejaculating, and if that’s not the problem, then I think it would become apparent pretty soon after. I mean, this is all coming from someone who just a few years ago was a 12 year old boy, and who would’ve freaked it my parents had said “is something wrong with your penis, or have you learned the joys of masturbating?”
It could coagulate and stick to the surface of the tub. Squirt hand lotion from one of those pump-style bottles into the tub sometime (from between 6" and 1.5’). Give it three or four good pumps. Let it sit for about 10-20 minutes.
It’ll still wash down when you run water over it, but the thickness makes it a little tougher rinse away than your typical liquid.
Happy, aka the Mr. Wizard of Masturbation
Huh. I’ve never even noticed it. Then again, masturbation’s something that I usually do while soaping up, so the rinse cycle leaves time for it to wash down.
YMMV. (M can be mileage or masturbation.)
Oooo, ding ding I think we may have a winner here. That sounds entirely possible. But the question is, what to do about it? It isn’t really the poor kid’s fault, but who wants to do all that laundry?
I was going to suggest this. Hearing it from Dad or other male (uncle, etc) may be a lot less stressful.
Oh… meant to add… I started masturbating in 5th grade at the latest. Maybe late 4th grade, which would have put me around… 8 or 9.
Jesus. TMI: (But it was all dry masturbation for me until about the end of 6th grade. Why I continue to open up my big fat mouth here, I will never understand.)
I’m begging you, do not have that sweet, well-meaning talk with your son about how masturbation is natural and OK. There is no better way to freak out an adolescent boy.
Here’s an alternative. Tell him you are tired of washing all his things, and that from now on he can clean his own pajamas and underwear. Show him how to do one load, and from there on he’s on his own.
Walloon beat me to it, though I was going to say that barring medical problems (perhaps there’s a trusted guy who might be able to find a way to ask him if everything’s okay?), the easiest way to avoid embarassment for all parties is for him to start doing his own laundry. Why is it unreasonable for him to do it when it’s got to be equally unreasonable for you to, what with the broken dryer?
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