Editing Retrograde ejaculation (section)

===Taoism===
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[[Taoists]] and some fields of [[alternative medicine]] recommend and teach deliberate retrograde ejaculation as a way of "conserving the body's energy". It was believed that retrograde ejaculation caused the sperm to travel into the head and nourish the brain, or that energy is conserved physically by keeping the sperm (and thereby, the "intelligence" that created it) in the body.<ref>{{cite book |author=Wile, Douglas |title=Art of the bedchamber: the Chinese sexual yoga classics including women's solo meditation texts |publisher=State University of New York Press |location=Albany, N.Y |year=1992 |isbn=0-7914-0886-8 }}</ref> However, there are other Taoist perspectives on the general subject of ejaculation and techniques that do not involve retrograde ejaculation (see [[Taoist sexual practices]]).