Few of the sexual partners are happy with an unplanned pregnancy. Even women, who are more interested in marriage and serious relationships, are puzzled if semen comes out during sex. This is especially true for young people who do not yet want to have children. Lubrication for sexual intercourse is necessary for the process to be pleasant. And it really has sperm, but is it possible to get pregnant from it. Let's figure it out.
Male discharge: classification
To understand the risk of getting pregnant from male lubricant, you need to know its classification:
Lubricant is a clear, viscous liquid that appears at the time of sexual arousal. Sexual lubricant contains a minimum amount of sperm, which means that the risk of conception is minimal.
Smegma is white discharge during intercourse, which may also appear before the process. They have an unpleasant odor, because smegma is a mixture of secretion produced by the sebaceous glands, moisture and dead epithelium. This white discharge accumulates on the glans during intercourse, and is often mixed with female lubrication. These secretions after sexual intercourse are not dangerous. White discharge is worthy of concern only if it is a sign of illness.
Smegma, despite its natural origin, in the absence of proper hygiene, can cause an unpleasant odor and a number of complications. The fatty glands of the head and foreskin are responsible for its production. This is, in fact, fat, which, without hygiene, accumulates and begins to smell bad. For pathogenic microflora, this is a fertile environment, so microbes and fungi can provoke an inflammatory process.
The peak activity of the fatty glands of the head of the penis and foreskin is the age of men from 16 to 25 years. It is at this age that sexual activity is also at its peak. The older a man becomes, the less smegma he produces. You can avoid a whitish coating on the penis by washing it twice a day. With heavy discharge, it is recommended to use antibacterial gels for intimate hygiene. Soap is better not to take, because it can greatly dry out the delicate skin of the head of the penis.
When should you pay attention to lubrication?
Whether it is clear or white discharge, there is a risk of pregnancy during intercourse, which should be the reason for choosing a safer method of contraception than interrupted sex.
Often, discharge during arousal is not associated with pathologies, but there are times when you need to pay attention to them:
- when the color of the discharge is unnatural, like yellowish, greenish or gray;
- semen or urine has blood blotches;
- the discharge has purulent formations or clots;
- they give off an unpleasant odor, which is most often the result of an infection in the genitourinary system;
- an erection causes pain or discomfort.
All of the above may indicate the activity in the body of the pathological process. If itching, swelling or hyperemia joins it, then you need to urgently visit a doctor. Self-medication can only aggravate the situation, and cause serious complications. Only a full diagnosis will show the essence of the problem, after which the correct therapy will be prescribed.
Reasons for the formation of mucus
Lubrication for sexual intercourse is a necessary phenomenon. The excitation of partners turns into a prelude, where caresses, intimate kisses inflame them even more, and as a result, mucus is formed. If it does not exist, then for both partners sex will be a torment with pain and discomfort. Therefore, nature has taken care that the pleasure be complete and painless, the lubrication of the penis and the lubrication of the woman contribute to this. Allocations during intercourse, especially if they are plentiful, lead the girls into a panic, and suddenly this is the release of sperm to orgasm. Lubrication during intercourse will be colorless, but to know whether it will cause pregnancy, you need to find out what it is and where it comes from.
What is a lubricant?
It is not difficult to understand what is released before the sperm, this is the natural lubricant of a man, which appears when sexual arousal occurs. It is called mucus, pre-semen or pre-ejaculate. This fluid comes out of the urethra. The norm is its transparency and stickiness. The bulbourethral glands are responsible for the formation of lubricant, leaving them, it passes through the urethra and appears as a drop on the glans penis. The process is especially active during foreplay or watching an exciting video. At an early stage of sexual intercourse and just before orgasm, ejaculate can stand out especially abundantly. But all this is natural and should not bother partners.
How much pre-ejaculate is released?
The amount of mucus secreted by each man will be individual. Abundant discharge during intercourse shows how aroused a man is. And the higher this state, the more pre-ejaculate is released. For someone it is one drop, and for someone it is quite a lot - about 5-6 ml. Sometimes discharge during intercourse does not appear at all. Why is there little lubrication? It directly depends on the body of a man and his state of health.
Pre-ejaculate may contain some semen. When thinking about whether sperm is released during intercourse, the answer is yes. For some, even this small amount may be enough to conceive. Abundant discharge during intercourse is a reason to refuse protection by interrupted intercourse. The presemen itself in its original composition does not have sperm, but when it passes through the channels, its remnants can get into the mucus.
Important! Abundant discharge during intercourse, including white discharge, is a reason to visit the hospital to undergo a differential diagnosis that will exclude prostorrhea - the ingress of juice from the prostate during urination or bowel movements.
Preseed function
Lubrication during sexual intercourse is important, because its special composition disinfects and removes acid after urination. This is a natural preparation of the body for the withdrawal of the seed, which will pass through the prepared channel without problems. In the female vagina, the microflora is acidic to prevent various diseases. But an acidic environment is also detrimental to sperm, making it weak and ineffective. And pre-ejaculate reduces acidity, and when sperm is released, the female body is ready to accept it, ensuring conception.
Can a girl get pregnant from lube?
Girls are very worried about whether sperm is released during intercourse. Although there is little of it in the lubricant, there is a risk of getting pregnant. Repeated studies have shown that the release of sperm during intercourse is minimal. Spermatozoa are sluggish and their ability to fertilize an egg is questionable, especially if the cervical mucus produced by the cervix is present.
Analyzes have shown that in most men, the lubricant does not contain sperm at all. When an accumulation of spermatozoa was found in the channels, they were analyzed and recognized as incompetent. Therefore, sex with such a man is completely safe, but it is impossible to know for sure that he does not have sperm in the lubricant or that they are inactive. Therefore, doctors do not recommend practicing unprotected sex in order to avoid an unplanned pregnancy.
To protect yourself from conception, you can adopt a number of preventive measures:
- use any contraception from barrier to calendar;
- both partners should monitor intimate hygiene, wash before and after sex;
- a man after the first sexual intercourse must empty the bladder in order to remove the remnants of the seed, and for a woman this is a way to make the environment in the vagina again acidic;
- after sex, use a weak acid solution for washing or douching, using lemon juice or boric acid.
Risks
Is semen released before orgasm? Most often this happens if it is repeated sexual intercourse. The urethra may contain active sperm that has not had time to exit. This is what causes an unplanned pregnancy. The risk of getting pregnant in this case is 30%. There is a way to reduce the activity of such a selection. There are a lot of spermatozoa in the semen, and although there are few in the lubricant, they can also be active. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce their activity with the acid contained in the urine. You just need to urinate after the first sexual intercourse. This will reduce the risk of conception to 7-10%.
Destroying myths
When men ejaculate during unprotected intercourse, the risk of getting pregnant is extremely high. This leads to the fact that most young couples believe in conception from a single sperm. Indeed, only one sperm penetrates the egg, which leads to conception. But fertilization is the collective work of a large number of spermatozoa, which die and are lost on the way to the egg. Even the most tenacious needs a flow of his associates, otherwise he will not achieve his goal. It is also important for him to meet on this path a mature egg, which reaches maturity only once a month.
Getting pregnant is not easy, and for this to happen, specific factors must match:
- The egg must be fully mature and ready to conceive a child.
- The active sperm needs to find that egg and fertilize it quickly. Most often this happens when a girl is ovulating.
- The lubricant of a man must have a large number of active spermatozoa. After all, most often the average man has either few or none at all. Even for a particular man, the amount of sperm in the lubricant can change daily and depend on various reasons.
Even white discharge after intercourse, if it is not semen, will contain a small amount of sperm. Therefore, it is better to make your sex safe.
Summing up
Answering the main question of all girls, can they get pregnant from male lubricant, you can safely answer "yes". But the chance of this is still minimal. It is because of this that sexual partners who are not yet ready to become parents need to be protected with condoms or birth control pills. Barrier contraception in this case is the only option for safe pleasure.
For those to whom such options are unacceptable, you can choose to prevent pregnancy by coitus interruptus in tandem with the calendar method. According to him, partners are guided by the barren days that appear in the menstrual cycle of every woman. This method is only suitable for those girls who know that their cycle is regular and accurate. This is the only way to track safe days and enjoy unprotected sex. This method is used by most couples, but there is some risk in it, because a failure can occur in any organism.