Men are such perverts that they even ejaculate in their sleep. There is a perfectly normal (i.e. non-perverted) biological explanation for this, but Fiction Land likes to pretend that it's always a result of an
Erotic Dream and/or
A Date with Rosie Palms. Also, in Fiction Land, women never do this. (In real life, they do, but barring female ejaculation it's a lot harder for women to tell in the morning.)
Truth in Television for both sexes, though this phenomenon is more the exception then the rule.
If a man is discovered to have such an emission by someone else (
especially his
Love Interest), he will
Never Live It Down.
See also
Raging Stiffie and, as a natural consequence,
Jizzed in My Pants.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
Comedy
- Serves as the basis for one of BillCosby's stand-up routines.
Fanfic
- A Ranma ½ fanfiction uses this as a way for Ranma's girl side (revealed to have Ghostly Goals) to be impregnated by the male side.
- Address Unknown has a rare female example, when Twilight falls asleep while studying and has an erotic dream involving Derpy. She's too distracted to notice the mess the following morning and rushes off to Canterlot leaving Spike to clean up.
- Blood That Flows: Poor Yuuno. He's incredibly embarrassed about it, but Kyouya tells him that it's perfectly natural and normal for boys his age to suffer through it. He tells Yuuno to pack more underwear when going on trips in the future.
Literature
- In Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Jesus heads to the East accompanied by his friend Biff to find the 3 wise men who came to witness his birth so he can learn how to be the messiah. The second of the wise men turns out to be a Buddhist monk who is the head of a Shaolin-esque monastery. While staying at the monastery, the two are naturally forbidden from being involved with women, or masturbating, and the only emission of semen can be involuntary, nocturnal ones. Biff, being a natural born lecher, promptly learns how to force himself to have dreams that will result in nocturnal emissions. Since they stay at the monastery for several years, he notes that he got pretty good at it.
- The Road To Mars: Carlton (an android built to look like David Bowie) is marketed as such. His advertising copy describes him as "a cross between a wet dream and a wank."
Live-Action TV
- In an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation involving the murder of a step-father, they find his teenaged step-son's DNA on his step-daughter's clothing and begin to ask him about it. Some gentle questioning by a sympathetic and understanding Nick reveals that he's just had one of these (possibly combined with A Date with Rosie Palms) and just grabbed something to clean his hand off.
- In The Sarah Silverman Program, Jay was in bed with Laura when she discovered he'd had a nocturnal emission. She found it so romantic because she thought this was because he'd dreamed of her, when it was in fact over the local news reporter. Then he went to work and took his anxieties out on said news reporter but then decided to explain to her about the nocturnal emission. On live TV. His girlfriend sees this and gets mad and he tries to get the news people to let him apologize. On Live TV. Then his girlfriend forgives him and when the news people actually let him apologize, she burst in, onto live TV, and delivers (in a manner not unlike a PSA) a small speech about how nocturnal emissions are involuntary and they and the dreams are not under the control of the person who has them and shouldn't be held against them.
- Rush Limbaugh stated that President Obama's immigration policy was "...a dictator's wet dream". To which Jon Stewart responded:
"Lemme tell you something, Rush. If you're a dictator, and you've got enough semen left over at the end of the day for a nocturnal emission, you're not a very good dictator."
- Angel: In Season Two, Angel starts having 'dreams' about his maker. It turns out that Darla is dosing him with magic to drive him nuts.
- Degrassi: JT has a wet dream about Liberty. In Toby's bed.
Music
Western Animation
- Butters had one in the South Park episode "Sarcastaball". Note that Butters is a ten years old.
- Happens to Orel Puppington on Moral Orel after having dreams where God praises him. Because he loves Christianity, he starts to physically harm himself whenever he feels "blessed" to counter this.
- Happens to Jack in the "JackAndTheBeanstalk" segment of Once Upon A Girl.
- On Daria the eponymous character meets her friend Jane in self-esteem class. Jane has done the course six times already ('I like having low self-esteem; it makes me feel special') and mentions that the boys and the girls will be split in the next class. When wondering what a class of all-male teens and a male teacher will be discussing they conclude it's this trope.
