In the Bible and old Hebrew writings there is much about sex, but one has to learn to delve into euphemism and circumlocution to unravel the true meaning. The Talmudists have written that-... we read (1 Kings 1, 15), And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber. Rab Judah said in Rab's name: "On that occasion Bathsheba dried herself thirteen times." This has been taken as meaning that Bathsheba and David had sexual intercourse thirteen times in succession - and after each orgasm, according to Mosaic law and custom, Bathsheba was obliged to wash and/or dry her genitals. And the Talmud notes, in reference to 2 Samuel II: 2 ("and it came to pass, in the early evening, that David arose from off his bed"), that "he copulated by day instead of night so that he might be free from desire by night." During the day King David copulated with eighteen wives. He records the consequences

"I am tired of my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears (Heb. dim ath, prostatic and-or seminal fluid); I soak my couch with my weeping. My strength is exhausted through my groaning all the day long; my moisture (semen) is dried up like the drought of summer. I am poured out like water; my moisture is evaporated as by the heat of the hot seasong I am weary of my weeping (continual ejaculations)."