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petweasel asked in HealthMen's Health · 1 decade ago

where does the semen go when a man has a vasectomy?

Serious question. Sorry for my ignorance, but after a vasectomy (cutting and knotting of the tubes that deliver sperm through the urethra), I assume the male organs (testes) continue to produce sperm and other hormonal products. If they don't get out the normal way, then where do they go?

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  • Marvin
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    The sample place most of them have always gone. First of all, a man’s body will produce millions of sperm per day throughout his adult life. Each time he ejaculates, a few thousand leave his body. Clearly he does not emit all of them when he ejaculates. Clearly he does not have sex every day. It stands to reason that less than 5% of the sperm, the average man produces in his lifetime are spit out by ejaculation. The remaining 95% are absorbed by his body. If he has had a vasectomy, none are lost by ejaculation. Therefore, after a vasectomy, only about 5% more are absorbed.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Is that question in "good taste"? :) First of all, just breeze over any answer from a person that has not had one, or is not in a long term relationship with a man that had one. You may as well breeze over most mens' answers. Most know so little about their own body parts that they don't even know where semen is made in their own body. A vasectomy is so benign, that if a man had one and lost his memory of it, he could never find out. The same is true for his partner. And to answer your question, my long term girlfriend says there is no difference. She said that the taste is affected by many factors, but a vasectomy is not one of them. She says it is affected by: Medication What a man eats. How much water he drinks. Drugs His health. BTW: All of the above will affect his sexual performance, and the quantity of his semen. A vasectomy will have no notable affect.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Your testes will continue to make sperm. When the sperm cells die, your body will absorb them. This is what happens to sperm cells that are not used—whether or not a man has had a vasectomy.

    You cannot be sure that semen stored in a sperm bank will be able to cause a pregnancy at an unknown time in the future. Sperm banking is not fertility insurance, and it is quite expensive. If you are thinking about sperm banks, vasectomy may not be right for you now.

  • 1 decade ago

    The semen goes where it always has gone. After a vasectomy sperm produced by the testicles are just not added to the semen.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Well, most of semen is produced by glands downstream of where they cut, so it leaves the penis during ejaculation just like it always did. The sperm however, are unable to get out, and they are just reabsorbed.

  • 1 decade ago

    The sperm goes... Nowhere. It is continually produced only to be reabsorbed back into the body.

  • 1 decade ago

    It's absorbed by the body

  • 1 decade ago

    I think it's rerouted somewhere. Nevertheless, getting a vasectomy is terribly dumb, IMO. It's another way of living a life that revolves around lust and lack of self-control, most often.

  • 1 decade ago

    CLEVELAND , I THINK .

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