Charismaniac:
None of us know matter of factly, but it is my preferred belief(which seems plausible to me) that Jesus did remain celibate all his life and that his form of release was sublimated from the physical to the spiritual. Perhaps the sublimated tension was the impetus for Him spontaneously healing or delivering another person through touch.
Thanks for the reply, Charismaniac.
I've heard things like this from religious people. Sublimation is a well-known psychological phenomenon, and a useful one. The problem is that it doesn't address this question.
We're discussing biology.
If Jesus was fully human, as we're told, and male, as we're also told, then his body produced millions of sperm cells every week, starting at puberty. (Can anyone provide exact biological stats?)
Those millions of sperm cells don't evaporate. They go somewhere. The body is always making more of them. That's what I meant about the necessity of release.
A celibate male (no sexual relationships) either has voluntary emissions (masturbation) or involuntary emissions (wet dreams). Jesus, if he remains celibate, would be obliged to experience one or the other, or both.
Both options involve erotic fantasy, physical stimulation and orgasm. That's reality.
If one starts from a premise that erotic fantasy, physical stimulation and orgasm constitute
sin, the biological facts force one to conclude either that (1) Jesus was not sinless, or (2) Jesus was not 'fully human', in the biological sense.
If neither of these options is acceptable, the premise must go overboard.
What do you think?