have you ever wondered how your body
works when it ejaculates well I'm Dr
Arena Malik urologist and pelvic surgeon
and today I'm going to explain exactly
what happens in your body when you
ejaculate it if you missed my last video
on how your body makes an erection make
sure you check that one out because it's
a great starting point for the second
anatomy and physiology lesson when
you're having sex or having some sort of
sexual stimulation your body sends
impulses to the spinal cord and the
brain and when you reach the Pinnacle or
the height of sexual stimulation where
you're about to climax those signals are
sent to a part of the spinal cord called
the spinal ejaculatory Center so
ejaculation is actually a reflex it's
not something that you can voluntarily
control it has two phases emission or an
expulsion so let's get down and explain
exactly what those are during the
emission phase what happens is the tubes
that carry semen including the vast
definition friends as well as other
seminal fluids it's containing the
seminal vesicles and the prostate the
muscles in those structures start
Contracting and that starts moving the
fluid towards the urethra and base of
the penis and prostate also what happens
is that part of the urethra called the
posterior urethra actually expand and in
fact it expands by two to three times
and this is the point of no return and
in fact men can describe this as a
feeling of okay there's an impending
orgasm coming and there's nothing I can
do to stop it interestingly this
particular feeling you may notice if
you're a little bit older that this
feeling has kind of diminished or gone
away because sometimes as men age they
no longer have this sensation of
impending orgasm at this point you move
on to the expulsion phase and this is
when that fluid is actually pushed out
of the male urethra and this requires
the muscles of the bladder neck the
urethra and the pelvic floor to contract
rhythmically to help push fluid out so
the first thing that happens is the
bladder neck and the bladder internal
bladder sphincter closed so that semen
will not Propel backwards into the
bladder but rather move forward out of
the urethra also the external urethral
sphincter relaxes to allow that fluid to
propel forward and muscles particularly
the muscle around the urethra called the
bubble cavernosus muscle is really the
main muscle that helps move semen along
outwards so here's a question that I'm
sure you guys have all all been dying to
know the answer to how far does semen
project in a normal healthy individual
so in a young man it actually propels
anywhere from 30 to 60 centimeters
however as men age those muscles can
become weaker and it becomes more like
15 centimeters so what can you do if you
want to have a more forceful ejaculate
well one of the things is Kegel
exercises and I've talked about these
before in a previous video but Kegel
exercises are exercises that you can do
to help strengthen the pelvic floor
muscles and potentially help you have
more forceful ejaculations well
specifically expulsions as we've
described and so what I tell men to do
is it's actually very difficult because
you've never had to do them before so
there's a feeling of when you're trying
to pee and you stop the stream to
urinate you're actually utilizing those
muscles and so you don't want to do it
while you're urinating but you can try
it so you can understand what movement
you need to do another way I've seen it
described is you can try to actually
without touching the penis try to lift
it up and that's also squeezing the
Kegel muscle what you want to do is do
them for five seconds strengthen five
seconds relax five so constructed five
seconds relax start with 10 or 15 in the
more morning 10 or 15 at night do them
lying down so you're not using any other
muscles at that time and you can just
focus on one thing once you get stronger
you can increase the number of
repetitions and increase them while
you're sitting and then eventually while
you're standing if you're having any
sort of pelvic pain pain with
ejaculation pain with erections pain
with testicles do not proceed with this
Kegel exercise without seeing a
urologist first all right I hope you
guys found this informative as always
remember to take care of yourself
because you're worth it
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thank you
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