Facts About Sperm

**uglyduckling** · #1 (**permalink**) 05-09-2007, 05:17 PM

Sperm Facts and Sperm Information as reported by Gaia Church

According to the Re/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids (Paul Spinard, 1994), the average man produces about 3.5 mL of semen per ejaculation whose nutritional value is:

less than 1 calorie
150 mg. protien
11 mg. carbohydrates
6 mg. fat.
3 mg. cholesterol
7% US RDA potassium
3% US RDA copper
3% US RDA zinc
300 million spermatoza
(Someday men will have to have all this tattooed to the side of their hip, like a can of Coke or a box of Wheaties.)

It looks healthy enough per serving size, but when compared to breast milk (which has about 170 calories per cup), semen has about 40% more calories (about 230 calories per cup). High levels of fructose (fruit sugar!) is normal in the semen and this sugar comes almost entirely from the seminal vesicles.

More Fun Sperm Facts

For the "average" man, the ejaculate contains over 80 million sperm. In addition to the little wiggly things, semen contains (taken from several web sites):

water
ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
blood-group antigens
calcium (yes, just like milk!)
chlorine (add your own little contribution to cleanliness!)
cholesterol (Is this the "bad cholesterol" or "good cholesterol"?)
citric acid, creatine, deoxyribonucleic acid, fructose, glutathione, hyaluronidase, inositol, lactic acid, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (what do you know, these are good for fertilization too!)
prostaglandins (fatty acids that, while not a hormone, perform hormone-like functions)
purine, pyrimidine, pyruvic acid
sodium (good to have, especially if you've been sweating a lot)
sorbitol, spermidine, spermine
vitamin B12 and zinc (you would think it's a multivitamin)

Random Sperm Facts
Average volume of semen per ejaculation: 1-2 teaspoons
Average number of times a man will ejaculate in his lifetime: 7,200
Average total amount of lifetime ejaculate: 18 quarts
Average speed of ejaculation: 28 miles per hour
Its muscle drives nature's only known rotary-joint. The tail SCREWS, not whips. (no pun)
Average number of calories in a teaspoon of semen: 7
Average duration of orgasm: 4 seconds
Average number of sperm cells in the ejaculate of a healthy man: 200 to 600 million
Distance sperm travels to fertilize an egg: 3-4 inches
Sperm lifespan: 2.5 months from development to ejaculati

**myzeroiq** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-09-2007, 05:48 PM

hahaha... it seems like they wanna do the whole nutrition facts and eat it...hahah =/

hmmm i rmb in biology class we watch this video with like the guy "jacking" and they show it in slow motion .... and it was really weird... it was like a bubble burst or something like that... and then they magnified it and u can actually see the spermies...hahah

hmmm i dunno y im talkin about this video but those facts juss reminded me of that...hahaha

**Kwan-Yi** · #3 (**permalink**) 05-09-2007, 06:10 PM

LOL ahh damn.. duckling.. you really went to get facts about sperms LOL

**teddybear67** · #4 (**permalink**) 06-09-2007, 09:25 AM

lols! cant believe you would actually research on it! im studying this sexual reproduction topic for science now in school and i was like grossing out throughout the whole lesson ><

**uglyduckling** · #5 (**permalink**) 06-09-2007, 01:43 PM

No, I did not research on it...just came across it in a forum, silly. I barely even read half of the stuff there, credits to scan-lover.

There's not many topics in this section so I thought I'd copy and paste this here.

**Kwan-Yi** · #6 (**permalink**) 06-09-2007, 07:02 PM

LOL oh i see... well your eyes get caught on a lotta things dont it

**redplanet** · #7 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 01:09 AM

lol, duckling, whatever happened to "i'm not going to participate in the sexuality threads anymore"

**Kwan-Yi** · #8 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 01:04 PM

LOL i guess she couldnt hold herself back