Contents:
- Medical Video: 5 Habits That Damage Your Penis! Bad Habits for Sperm
- 1. Masturbate using soap or body lotion
- 2. Masturbation using saliva
- 3. Smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages
- 4. Frequent cycling
- 5. Often stay up
Medical Video: 5 Habits That Damage Your Penis! Bad Habits for Sperm
The penis is an important organ in a man's body that must be kept clean and healthy. However, even though you feel you have treated your penis well, in fact there are still habits that you do everyday that can threaten and endanger the penis. Anything?
1. Masturbate using soap or body lotion
Masturbation or masturbation is one of the usual ways men do to channel their sexual desires alone. Unfortunately, there are still many men who masturbate using bath soap or lotion on their penis. This aims to smooth the skin of the penis and hands, so that masturbation runs "smoothly".
According to Joshua Zeichner, M.D., director of cosmetic research in the dermatology department at Mount Sinai Hospital, masturbation using lotion or soap is somewhat dangerous
Soap and lotions should be used for body parts such as the skin of the hands, feet and body. Whereas if you use it on the penis, which has a sensitive skin surface, it can cause irritation and abrasions on the shaft of the penis. Moreover, if lotions and soaps come in or about the urine discharge hole, this can cause pain and infection afterwards.
Sex experts recommend using lubrication or sex lubricants to facilitate your masturbation activity. Using special sex lubricants will not make the penis skin irritated because the ingredients are certainly safe to use on the genitals. In addition, there are also many choices of sex lubricants made from water, so they are not sticky. Some even have certain aroma features that add to their own sensations.
2. Masturbation using saliva
Besides using lotions and soap, there are still many men who use saliva or saliva to masturbate. Even though it's safe to use saliva, but still there are dangers stored in it.
Because, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saliva can contain the herpes simplex virus, and if this happens, it will be dangerous to get sex. This condition usually occurs if you first have herpes on the lips or in the mouth, and the virus can spread to the genitals that are affected by your saliva.
3. Smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages
Even cigarette advertisements have warned of the dangers of impotence. Smoke can damage the lining of your blood vessels, which can affect the smooth muscles of the penis and block the flow of blood. In fact, men who smoke will risk a 51% chance of impotence compared with non-smokers.
Then, there have been many studies linking between excessive alcohol consumption in men with fertility. Alcohol has a direct effect on cells that produce testosterone, so that it can cause testosterone levels to decrease in the blood. In fact, the hormone testosterone plays an important role in reproduction, for example to achieve penile erection and increase sexual desire.
4. Frequent cycling
Cycling is a healthy activity. However, cycling can also cause you to have difficulty erecting. Past research found 1,700 men who pedaled bicycles more than 3 hours a week had a higher risk of experiencing impotence than those who rarely biked.
Further research from the University of California, San Diego revealed the possibility that bicycle seats were one of the causes of difficult erections. A hard bicycle saddle can suppress the perineum (the area between the anus and testicles), thus putting pressure on the arteries and nerves needed as a sexual function.
The solution is to use a padded bicycle pedal and do other interlude sports besides cycling, such as swimming or jogging.
5. Often stay up
Not a few men who sleep late at night for various reasons, either because of work demands, because they hang out with friends, or because they relax watching television at home. It turns out this can reduce male fertility because it reduces the amount of sperm produced.
Research launched from Live Science found that people with the least sleep duration decreased sperm counts to 25 percent. The less number of sperm cells that are released, the fewer also succeed in surviving until they reach the egg in the female reproductive organs.
