Wendy Zukerman

Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman.

You're listening to Science Versus.

Today on the show, we're pitting facts against fapping.

That's right.

With No Nut November just around the corner, we thought it was a great time to ask, what are the benefits of saving your seed and not ejaculating?

And this is something that former tax accountant and current comedian and also my friend, Saren Jayamana, has been curious about for a little while now.

Hi, Saren.

How do you feel about being introduced as a sort of semen retention curious?

Now, for those who are uninitiated, semen retention, I've now become very familiar with this term, but it basically means you retain your semen, you keep it in, you don't release it.

When did you start getting curious about semen retention?

Is ejaculating leaking energy?

Yes.

Giving it to a sock.

It's funny because it is true that for thousands of years, men in particular have been conflicted over whether to fap or not to fap.

Yeah, right.

And for some in the ancient world, semen was seen as this powerful thing, sometimes this great powerful thing that could do super impressive stuff, like apparently the Sumerian god Enki came and that's how we got the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Yeah, okay.

But then on the other hand, it's like this conflict between

that we've had for so long because then you've got Hippocrates and Taoist mystical practitioners and then the 18th century you've got philosophers and the 19th century you've got American doctors all on team cockblock saying that things like masturbation and losing your semen weaken a man's body and brain.

Who are kind of talking about their journeys into this world and how excited they are about being able to retain their semen and how you could come along on the journey too.