Ask The Batemaster: Semen Leakage

For many men this is quite common during edging, and not likely to represent any particular problem with your internal plumbing.

QUESTION: When I edge real intensely, sometimes a little bit of semen comes out, but I don’t shoot. Sometimes it’s even quite a bit, like maybe half a teaspoon or more? I’m still hard and I can keep going, if I slow down for a bit. It also makes great lube! But I wonder if I stressed something inside—is this all right?

RESPONSE: For many men this is quite common during edging, and not likely to represent any particular problem with your internal plumbing. The complex balance of physical and mental, nervous system and muscle triggers within the urogenital region, and brain centers associated, are a small galaxy of interacting forces and pressures, releases, decreases and increases.

What matters most to a man edging, understandably, is the incredibly sweet, powerful sensations of erotic bliss that emanate from your penis. You are keeping yourself as close as possible to that threshold of stimulation called “ejaculatory inevitability.” This is literally the “edge” beyond which you cannot hold yourself back from the involuntary muscle contractions, the spurting of semen, and the overwhelming oblivion of ejaculatory orgasm.

Until you pass that threshold, while you maintain a high state of arousal and continued stimulation, the seminal vesicles—two small glands behind your bladder that produce and store much of the fluid you expel as semen—await release. There are also prostate gland secretions ready to mix with that fluid, and the system remains poised like a cocked trigger. One more source of components of semen is the source of what is commonly called “precum” or Cowper’s gland fluid (the gland also called the “Bulbourethral” gland). This clear, slimy fluid is something edgers often like to play with.

You can dab the diamond droplets with a fingertip and extend it in a clear thread. You may like to taste your precum, or just smear it around on the head of your penis. Your body produces this delightful crystalline nectar as an alkaline balance for the acidic leftovers of urine inside your penis, the acid which can damage living sperms cells in your semen.

Actual sperm cells, which have made their long, long migration up from your balls into readiness to mix with all this other stuff, does not shoot directly from your balls, as many fellows still seem to imagine. These microscopic wrigglers actually comprise a very small percent, 2-5 or 6 % of the volume of semen, the rest of the mix is designed to carry it and ease its passage.

Keeping yourself on the edge, I sometime compare to orbiting a black hole in space: if you stay outside the event horizon, you can still pull back. But once you cross that horizon, you’re on your way into the mysterious Singularity within the black hole. At a certain point there’s no escape.

Those hair-trigger balances are so precise, it’s not surprising if you leak a bit of the components, or even a mix of semen itself, but this leakage is harmless. You might as well enjoy it, taste it, or use it as more lube to continue your pure penis pleasure!

A note from The Batemaster: I’m honored that the guys at Bateworld have asked me to respond to some questions from male masturbators around the world every week.

Always check with your doctor about any issues you might be experiencing with your sexual organs. Prompt diagnosis and treatment are important. This article’s purpose is to inform and entertain readers and is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment.