Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, answers some questions posed by a reader on the trapped sperms and effectiveness of the vasectomy procedure that he is considering as a form of contraception.
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00:00In the month of September, which is generally considered a sexual health month, we want
00:05to focus on what exactly happened to men after they decided to use vasectomy as a form of
00:11contraception.
00:13And the commonly asked question is what happened to the sperm or semen after vasectomy.
00:26In fact, there are two different matters altogether.
00:29What happened to the semen and what happened to the sperm.
00:33Let's deal with what happened to the semen first.
00:35If you imagine a typical man will ejaculate between 4-6ml of liquid during climax and
00:43out of that liquid, 99% actually produced by the prostate and only 1% actually is the
00:51sperm that mixed with that liquid.
00:54In fact, the prostatic secretions contain a lot of nutrition and lubricant and also
01:00alkaline solution to neutralise the acidity in the actual vagina itself so it facilitate
01:08the sperm swimming.
01:10So after a vasectomy, in fact, there is no change in the semen at all.
01:15So the amount that is ejaculated, the texture that is ejaculated, the temperature, the colour
01:22and everything else remain unchanged.
01:24The only thing is that it does not contain any sperm.
01:30So that leads to the second question.
01:33What exactly happens to the sperms?
01:35In fact, actually the sperm is continuous being produced, they actually stay in the
01:41lining of the epididymis and after about a period of 90-120 days, it will die and the
01:50body will absorb it.
01:52Imagine that someone like a monk who doesn't ejaculate or who doesn't actually involve
01:56in sexual activity, eventually the sperm will be produced, mature and also survive and die
02:04and it's the same thing because after vasectomy, the sperm doesn't actually get out.
02:09So there is a good thing and a bad thing.
02:12The good thing is that the continuous production of sperm eventually will die so that itself
02:19may mean that if someone change their mind, they can actually retrieve the sperm and directly
02:24make a test tube baby.
02:26Alternatively, that accumulated sperm itself might actually undergo changes and sometimes
02:33it might cause slight discomfort in the initial part after the vasectomy.
02:38So for next week, we are going to focus a lot more about vasectomy and what happens
02:43to your libido and also your climax and also more importantly, your erection after vasectomy.
02:53Stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.