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Question
If a man is clinically sterile, do the prohibitions of "Shichvat Zerah Levatalah" still apply?
Answer
Shalom U'veracha,
If a man has no sperm then he does waste seed by ejaculating. Still he is prohibited from masturbating as this is a separate prohibition of "niuf byad"
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