What are wet dreams and who gets them?
Most people stop urinating in their bed before the age of six (hopefully). Then why are many young teenage boys, and even some men, waking up in the middle of the night with wet sheets and underpants? The answer is they are experiencing something called nocturnal emissions, or “wet dreams.” Nocturnal emission is the technical term for the experience of having an orgasm and then ejaculation while sleeping. Is there something wrong with me? There is a difference between nocturnal orgasms and nocturnal emissions, because males can have a nocturnal orgasm (a sexual climax) without ejaculating (an emission of fluids, including semen). Females have nocturnal orgasms as well, but there is no emission. The important thing to understand is that there is nothing wrong with a male if he experiences a nocturnal orgasm or nocturnal emission, as they are normal and healthy experiences. The only problem with a nocturnal emission we can think of is the wet spot it leaves. Starting between the ages of
