This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on February 5, 2003). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
When network engineers start discussing sex…
…the average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.56010^9^ 2 bits * 2.0010^8^, which comes out to be 6.2410^17^ bits. That’s about 78,000 terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the entire text content of the Library of Congress to be scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s. Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000^th^ of that.
(Via MeFi)