Spermatorrhoea, also known as wet dreams, is a male sexual problem characterized by involuntary seminal discharge or emission. This sort of discharge usually takes place without sexual stimulation and orgasm. Some amount of seminal emission is considered quite normal in a male who does not indulge in frequent sexual union. But when the number of seminal emissions shoots up abnormally, it becomes a problem.

THE spermatozoon, the carrier of the paternal inheritance, has a brief lifetime in vitro, during which it must be viable and motile until it has fulfilled its function of conjugating with the ovum. Mature, though non-motile, sperm can survive for many days in the male reproductive tract before being shed, and they may survive for up to 6 days in the female tract, according to recent observations1. On the other hand, in vitro, their viability, as judged by motility, is limited to a few hours. The metabolism of the sperm would therefore appear to be different in each of these several circumstances.