Talk:Spermatorrhea

Hmm

Doesn't infrequent ejaculation tend to result in higher semen volume? I think the old "cure" probably exacerbated the "problem." WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:32, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.161.161.117 (talk) 00:38, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

The diagnosed medical disorder wasn't the high semen volume but the frequent involuntary emission, including when the penis was in-erect. Bad cases were linked by doctors to patients who had a high degree of "self-abuse", which didn't mean they masturbated, which was just seen as a habit like it is today, but excessive masturbation that went beyond the point of physical irritation. Spermatorrhea was also linked to all sorts of "nervous disorders", which were reclassified as psychological conditions when empirical psychology as a field took off. The "cure" was aimed at stopping self-abuse, and often patients reported that immediately after stopping masturbation that the amount of nocturnal emissions increased. Doctors believed the organs were damaged by the physical activity. There was a range of opinion on the subject and many doctors had this simple prescription to prevent the excessive masturbation that lead to spermatorrhea: have more sex. Anyway, Victorian views on this are often exaggerated by modern literature to look weirder than they were. I'll add this to my list of articles to work on. Brianshapiro (talk) 01:38, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

NPOV & Woorrhea

Just reviewed this article and realised I gave it a woeful rating, and it already has a woeful rating. First off the bat we have woo peddler commentary about unproven spiritual causes rather than a medical explanation which makes me question whether this condition actually exists or whether it's just a creation of the woo-posse defacing contemporary encyclopedia's with reality as they'd like it to be.

Secondly I question the validity or reliability of anything that refers to science or medicine as Western. Science and medicine are universal, there are no variations, as scientific enquiry is about understanding the truth. Truth is black and white, there's no grey areas, if there's grey it means that the answer hasn't been found yet. This is a common trope and watchword that indicates pseudoscientific woowoo types have been through and defaced an article.

The mere fact that 'kidney qi' is listed as the cause of this ailment prominently leads me to want to flag this NPOV but for now I'll just leave this here and hope anyone with more knowledge on this subject can correct this to an academic level with educative qualities or values. BaSH PR0MPT (talk) 07:52, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Article is still full of woo and crap

Apparently, according to the above comment this article was full of pseudoscience in 2012, and seems to be more or less the same today. Is anyone going to fix this? Ughh... I REALLY don't want to do research on this sort of topic... but I will give this article an appropriate cleanup tag of some sort. Also, the amount of nonsense makes me suspicious that the condition doesn't exist as well SarrCat ∑;3 04:16, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

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