What is the role of the prostate gland?
The article tries to find answers to a common question about the role of prostate in the male organism. Prostate is also called prostata or prostatic gland and its main role is to store and secrete fluid that constitutes 10-30% of the volume of the seminal fluid, which is a part of sperm. Prostate is a compound of mammalian reproductive organs. It has enormous influence on male sexual desire (the only condition is that it must be healthy), unhealthy prostatic gland causes impotence. These days, around 40% of 50 year-old men have smaller or bigger problems with prostate, this number is still growing. This enormously influences sexual life of every man because they usually judge the quality of this sphere by the number of sexual intercourses. Prostate is a muscular organ of a size of a walnut which surrounds the urethra. Within prostate there is a 0.5-wide duct which is called prostatic urethra and leads to the urethra itself. Prostate is an exocrine gland producing fluid which stimulate
