The Journey Into Puberty:
Becoming a Young Man
Puberty is the stage when your body starts changing from a boy into a man. For some, it can start as early as 9 or 10 years old, while for most, it happens somewhere between 11 and 16. Interestingly, the average age of puberty has been getting younger over the past 100 years. Scientists believe this could be influenced by things like processed foods, sugary drinks, and even chemicals in cosmetics and everyday products.
A Big Milestone:
Producing Sperm & Your First Ejaculation
One of the biggest signs that puberty has begun is when your body starts producing sperm and semen—this means your reproductive system is officially active. Many boys experience their first ejaculation either through masturbation or a wet dream (when semen is released while you’re asleep). This is a major milestone! It’s your body’s way of saying, "You’re no longer just a child—you are now entering manhood."
In many cultures, this would be a time of celebration—a father or mentor would acknowledge this moment as the start of a boy’s journey into becoming a responsible man. Puberty isn’t just about physical changes—it’s about developing maturity, self-control, and responsibility.
New Sexual Feelings and How to Handle Them
One of the biggest challenges of puberty is learning how to manage your new sexual drive. Before now, you probably never had to think about sexual feelings or urges, but once puberty starts, they can suddenly feel strong and overwhelming. Every guy experiences this, and it’s important to learn how to handle it in a way that’s healthy and positive.
It’s easy to feel confused or even frustrated with these new urges, but puberty isn’t something to fear—it’s a powerful stage of growth that prepares you for the future.
The Physical Changes:
From Boy to Man
Puberty doesn’t just affect your sexual development—it transforms your entire body into a stronger, more masculine form:
Increased strength – Your muscles start to grow, and you may feel stronger and more energetic.
Body hair growth – Hair will begin to grow around your genitals (pubic hair) and under your arms (armpit hair). You may also start getting hair on your legs, arms, and even your face.
Larger genitals – Your penis and testicles (balls) grow bigger, and your scrotum may start to hang lower.
A deeper voice – Your voice will start to crack and change pitch as it gradually becomes deeper.
More emotions – You may feel emotions more strongly than before, sometimes getting frustrated or excited more easily.
Stronger attraction to girls – If you haven’t been that interested in girls before, you may suddenly start noticing them in a new way. This is completely normal—your body is producing testosterone, the male hormone responsible for sexual attraction.
Embracing the Journey
Puberty is an exciting and sometimes confusing time, but every boy goes through it. This stage of life isn’t just about physical changes—it’s about preparing for the responsibilities of manhood. Learning how to respect and manage your body, emotions, and sexual desires will help you grow into a mature, confident, and responsible man.
So, if you’re starting to notice these changes, congratulations! You’re entering an amazing stage of life that will shape the man you’re becoming. And remember—you don’t have to figure it all out alone. Having a dad, older brother, or mentor to talk to can make this journey a lot easier.
Sperm cells is produced in a man’s testicles. When a sperm cell combine with an egg cell (produced by woman) conception takes place and a new baby is formed in a woman’s body. A mature man can ejaculate about 80 to 300 million sperm cells in about 2 to 5 ml of semen at a time.
Semen is the liquid that contain sperm cells. Semen is the actual fluid that a man ejaculate from his penis and it is a combination of about 65-75% seminal fluid, (nutrients and proteins) 25-30% prostate fluid, (liquid excretion from the prostate) 1-5% Cowper’s Gland fluid (detergent, anti bacterial and lubricant) and only about 1-2% sperm cells.
Wet Dream
Ejaculation is when you experience sexual pleasure in and around your genitals and reach a sexual climax. Semen is then released out of your penis through multiple contractions of the prostate gland and other muscles inside the groin area. Thus (about 8 to 16 contractions) forces semen out of the penis.
Sexual drive is an intense feeling and desire to experience a sexual activity (masturbation or sexual activity) to relieve himself of this sexual urge. The average desire for sexual relieve is about every 2nd to 3rd day for men. It differ for men at different age and it is higher for younger man. When we experience this sexual drive we don’t have to engage in sexual activities. It is normal biology of being a man. When we are not married yet and abstain from masturbation or any other sexual activities, we can use this energy, focus, concentration, creativity and capacity to compete in a very positive way and that is to work out and open up our future in School, University or any other occupation we might be doing.
Conception will take place when a man and woman has sexual intercourse and a sperm cell combine with an egg cell to form a new cell that will multiply and grow to become a baby.
Sexual intercourse is when a man inserts and moves his erect penis in a woman’s vagina. When the man ejaculate his semen (with the sperm cells in the seminal fluid) into a woman’s vagina, the sperm cells swim up into the woman’s uterus and Fallopian tubes to meet up with an egg cell and conception will happen.
Vagina is the frontal opening between a woman’s legs that form part of her sexual genitalia.
The uterus is the protective and muscular enclosure where a baby will form and grow until birth. It is also the bag like space that enlarge during pregnancy. Normally it takes 9 month from conception to birth.
The Fallopian tubes is tubes that extents out of the uterus and connects to the ovaries. Usually this is where the sperm cell meets up with an egg cell that came down this tube from the ovary.
The ovaries. Every woman has two ovaries and that is the place where the average of 5000 egg cells of a woman mature and are released in a cycle of about one per month. This is also called a menstrual period of a woman.
Menstrual periods usually takes place once a month for woman when an egg cell mature and was released from the ovary into the Fallopian tube. The egg cell moves down the Fallopian tube and enters into the uterus. If conception did not take place, the egg cell and the blood lining of the uterus will start to collapse and flow out of her vagina. This outflow of blood is very normal for woman and its not like a wound or a cut. Woman does not bleed to death or need to go to a doctor if this experience happen every month. It is only a lining inside the uterus and it will grow back during the course of the following month. This menstrual cycle will start at puberty and ends at age 40 to 50 for woman.