Todd:

> necessary for longevity.  The Chinese alchemists, for example,
> had quite an elaborate theory about this.  There is a similar
> idea in Yoga from India, to the effect that conservation of the
> "bindu" (semen) leads to longevity or even immortality.  While it
> is tempting to dismiss such teachings as projections of
> puritanical phobias, these cultures were not conspicuously
> puritanical in the first place.

Note: according to the "theory", the semen contains energy, and that
"explains" why women live longer than men. A totally abstinent man thus
can't expect to live more than about the average than men and women life
expectancy.

JL