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A chat on 4chan
human
Is up with semen retention and yoga or Buddhist monks 'squeezing the balls' in order to retain the semen or act as birth control; what are some conspiracy theories about abortion or birth control???
gpt
Lots of older religions gave magical qualities to semen because they understood that getting semen into a woman makes her pregnant, but didn't understand the mechanism behind it. Since semen must be magic, it was then deduced that retaining your magic male juice made your lifeforce stronger.
There's a mild truth in it, since a man's body will always prioritize sperm production over almost anything else, other parts of the body can become malnourished through over-expenditure of semen (see: chronic masturbation). Any first worlder with more than two neurons firing can jack off all they want and still maintain the nutrition necessary to stay healthy.