The balls

Your balls hang together, at slightly different heights, in a small stretchy sac. Their purpose is to produce and store sperm and testosterone. They are positioned away from the body, allowing air to circulate around the sac keeping the sperm-making facilities at their best, 5°C lower than the rest of you. Your balls are so clued up and manoeuvrable that they have the good sense to pull themselves into your body when it's cold, stretch themselves away when you're hot and have time to enjoy themselves being sensitive to licking, sucking and smacking. Inside each ball are 500 metres of coiled up spaghetti-like tubing in which sperm are produced at a daily rate of 400 to 500 million. When they are ready, they are moved and stored for action in the epididymis situated behind each ball. The balls also produce testosterone, a natural anabolic steroid hormone, which increases at puberty and causes the characteristic changes, eg stubble, breaking of the voice, etc. Cum spunk or semen Cum or spunk is made up of sperm (made by the balls), the fluid in which they swim (made by the prostate gland) and a milky-creamy thickening agent (made by the seminal vesicles and bulbourethral glands). The fluid contains nutrients to keep the sperm alive and kicking as they battle their way towards the female egg - they're on a lost cause there then! These include zinc, potassium, glucose, and vitamin C which give cum its sweet, salty and very individual taste. As you're preparing to shoot your load, muscle contractions pump the cum from the epididymis, along the vas deferens, into the uretha which runs along the inside of your cock. Each time we cum, we release about 2-5ml (half a dessert spoon) which contain between 50-150 million sperm. When we cum repeatedly, we produce more fluid, less sperm - which is why it tends to be clearer and more liquid. The prostate gland Situated next to the wall of the rectum, the prostate gland is about the size of a chestnut, and is connected to the bladder by one tube and to the urethra by another. While its purpose is not fully understood, amongst other things it produces the milky fluid in which sperm swim and live (making up about 30-40% of semen volume). It also produces substances which give semen its characteristic smell and help pump the cum towards the end of the cock. It's packed full of sensitive nerve endings which is why getting fucked or fisted can be a big turn-on. Piss urine Our body continually produces waste some of which is filtered out in liquid form as urine. Each of us produce about 1.5 litres (2.6 pints) a day which is sent from our kidneys to the bladder, a globe shaped organ, which holds about 400-800ml of urine. Sensitive receptors send signals to our brain as it fills up which we translate as 'I need to piss soon/now'. When we're ready, it's channelled through the prostate, along the urethra, and out of the end of the cock through a series of muscles which control the flow. This online advice guide is an extract from the book TOGETHER, by kind permission of Patriic Gayle and Gay Times Books. The book itself is over 300 pages long and contains:

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