Pollution

The Pollution is the medical term for an ejaculation during sleep that occurs involuntarily and without any action on your part. Pollution can, but does not have to be, accompanied by erotic dreams. Theories on pollution assume a natural degradation of the seeds as the cause.

What is the pollution?

The medical term pollution is understood as an involuntary ejaculation during the sleep phase, which occurs without active intervention and often even completely eludes memory.

Most men have their first pollution during puberty. The trigger for the pollution is an unconscious orgasm. Pollution can occur during an afternoon nap as well as during night sleep, but the pollution occurs comparatively more frequently during the night and is then usually limited to the REM sleep phase (dream sleep).

Because it occurs more frequently at night, the term nocturnal ejaculation is often used synonymously with pollution. In colloquial language, the phenomenon is usually from one wet dream the speech. The pollution does not actually have to be accompanied by a dream. The foreign word pollution corresponds to a loan word from Latin and comes from the verb "polluere" for "stain" or "dirty". This technical term probably comes from the marks on the duvet cover, which in most cases is only used to recognize the ejaculation.

Function & task

Most men report having their first pollution during puberty. Under the influence of the increased gonadotropin concentration and the resulting increased testosterone level, the penis, testicles, epididymis, vas deferens and sex glands grow during puberty. The testicles produce the first sperm.

Sexual maturation reaches its target point with the first real ejaculation. The first effusion takes place either consciously in the waking phase or unconsciously as pollution. Pollution does not necessarily have to be associated with an erection of the penis. Pollution says little about dreams either. The dream content can, but does not have to be, of an erotic nature. Some dreamers awaken during the pollution. Others completely oversleep the ejaculation and then usually do not remember the event.

If erotic dreams accompany the pollution, these are often sexual fantasies that remain unfulfilled in the waking state due to inhibitions, compulsions or norms. As a result, erotic dreams often express unconscious and suppressed fantasies.

Ejaculation requires muscle contractions in the pelvic floor area and contraction of the accessory genital organs. Since these contractions occur independently of one's own action and stimulation during sleep, the question of the cause or the trigger of the pollution arises. One theory for this is provided by the so-called sperm accumulation theory, which is based on the body's own breakdown function through involuntary orgasm and the subsequent ejaculation of accumulated sperm. Another hypothesis is the teratozoospermia avoidance theory, which explains the purpose of pollutions with teratozoospermia avoidance and the improvement of sperm quality.

In fact, pollution only seems to occur if, for a period of time, the secretions and sperm have not been expelled during ejaculation while awake. The occurrence of the pollution is subject to the indirect control by the hormonal gland activity, which has a high influence on the sex organ function.

Correlations have now been established between the rise in testosterone levels and the pollution frequency. The hormonal system is also related to its activity with sexual stimuli.

Illnesses & ailments

Pollution is a common and natural phenomenon that has no disease value. Rather, it indicates a natural development and often marks the onset of puberty. Although ejaculation during sleep is a harmless phenomenon with no pathological value, it is also rarely addressed by people of medical practice. For the sake of a healthy and mentally unencumbered personality development, an explanation can therefore take place before the first pollution.

Boys without such information are exposed to inexplicable phenomena with pollution, which they sometimes perceive as a serious insecurity or no longer trust their bodies and their functions in the sexual area. For this reason, unenlightened boys can experience their first pollution as a traumatic event, which can be associated with massive impairments of their future sexual life. Some unenlightened boys feel ashamed of the pollution because they think they are bed wetters.

Such problems associated with nocturnal ejaculation were often observed in boys with intellectual disabilities in particular. Especially with them there is a need for sex education, so that they do not think they are bed-wetting and neither feel shame nor feelings of inferiority about the incident of pollution.

If there is pollution before puberty, that has no disease value either. Just before puberty, the gonadotropin concentration in a boy's blood increases. With it, testosterone production also increases. This is followed by the release of sex hormones. The testosterone level can be increased two to three times before puberty. As a result, boys can already form secretions in the accessory sex glands and prostate after stimulation before puberty.

Even a year or even several years before their actual sexual maturity, they can experience a small amount of prostate secretion in an orgasm or go through pollutions. In a prepubertal orgasm, the ejaculate consists solely of secretions and is characterized by the absence of sperm.