Did you know that human sperm is ejaculated at a speed of 17km/h? Or that ejaculate is pushed out in 0.8 second intervals? Or that the male orgasm, which usually lasts between 3 and 10 seconds, only in exceptional cases lasts longer than 15 seconds? Or that it is accompanied by an increase in heart frequency to 180 beats per minute, and that breathing can accelerate to 40 breaths per minute? Just about any question about semen, fertility, male sexual potency, and sexual physiology, is answered by Vivien Marx in this lively, informed and entertainingly written book. It is a book for both men and women. It is a reference book, a textbook and a good read. If you ever wondered what the purpose of orgasm is, what determines the smell and colour of semen, wondered about delayed ejaculations - retrograde ejaculations, how best to look after testicles, how smoking, alcohol, drugs, stress and lifestyle affect potency and fertility, how the environment influences fertility, (are British men an endangered species?) , about semen and diseases - the unloved companions of the sperm cells, semen and criminology, the history of semen science, how semen is tested - you will find the answers to these and hundreds of other questions here.
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Vivien Marx, a biologist, works as a science editor and journalist in television and newspapers. She was born in New York and now lives in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Marvellous!,
By Wayne Redhart "Also on Twitter!" (West Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
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This book covers everything one could possibly wish to know about this special fluid, from a scientific point of view: from the critical density required for retrograde sublimation within the testicles, to the average viscosity on the Anderberg scale. Perhaps best of all though, are the more light-hearted chapters. The limericks had me rolling around on the floor with laughter. Truly a seminal work.
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the orgasm is a reward to show you that you did a good job at procreating and to insure that you will do it again. this is the way nature,god has set it up.this book is very good almost a compendium about the semen subject through history also your partner can in a way control this to reward you to.
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"Jerk it off", "milk it", "spank the monkey", "shoot a load" - slang dictionaries contain a bounty of words and phrases for male orgasm and its sidekick, ejaculation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shaped sperm, sperm quality, male reproductive health, sperm need, sperm concentration, semen quality, semen volume, involuntary childlessness, penile tissue, male contraception, sperm development, sperm production, sperm density, genital opening, motile sperm, semen analysis, sperm competition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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"Jerk it off", "milk it", "spank the monkey", "shoot a load" - slang dictionaries contain a bounty of words and phrases for male orgasm and its sidekick, ejaculation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shaped sperm, sperm quality, male reproductive health, sperm need, sperm concentration, semen quality, semen volume, involuntary childlessness, penile tissue, male contraception, sperm development, sperm production, sperm density, genital opening, motile sperm, semen analysis, sperm competition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Abraham Morgentaler, Middle Ages, Lisa Tenover, New York, National Research Council, University of California, Dudley Seth Danoff, Bernie Zilbergeld, Great Lakes, National Institutes of Health, Shere Hite, Cheikh Nefzaoui, Haydar Karatepe, New Orleans, Rebecca Sokol, University of Turku, Uschi Radermacher, Walter Krause New!
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- Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story by Theo Colborn on page 141, and Back Matter
- Sexual Selection (Scientific American Library) by James L. Gould on page 86, and Back Matter
- Hot and Bothered by Wendy Dennis on page 78
- Male Infertility by T.B. Hargreave in Back Matter
- Resolving Infertility by Resolve in Back Matter
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