Basics: Guest Post 3: Sperm maturation and ejaculation

What you all were waiting for has finally come! Yeah.
Sperm maturation and ejaculation
OK!! So the last time I was over here at Neurotopia we were talking about sperm in their infancy. We discussed spermatogenesis — how we got from a diploid spermatogonial stem cell to a haploid spermatid — and then spermiogenesis — the process by which the spermatids acquire the features of spermatozoa: tails, acrosomes and the like.
We stopped there when the sperm had just graduated from diapers to their big kid undies, and we’ll pick up where we left off.

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Friday Weird Science: Sex Therapists and the Expectations

We hereby take a break from the female reproductive cycle to ask:
How’s your sex life?
How do you FEEL about your sex life?
sex therapist.jpg
(If Sci were a psychiatrist, she would have to have this as her computer background.)
More importantly, how does your SEX THERAPIST feel about your sex life?
ResearchBlogging.org Corty EW, Guardiani JM. “Canadian and American sex therapists’ perceptions of normal and abnormal ejaculatory latencies: how long should intercourse last?” Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2008.

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