# Dead baby sex pills - this CAN'T be for real, can it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 10, 2011, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183 "2011-08-10T11:46:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/21 "2011-08-10T19:06:12Z")
When my wife was in China studying for her university entrance exam, her father bought a human placenta from a hospital and made soup out of it; I guess human placenta was supposed to be “brain food”. Now it’s a big leap from placenta to aborted fetuses, but the idea doesn’t sound _completely_ impossible to me. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/22 "2011-08-10T22:12:03Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Some of the anti-abortion crowd are willing to tell lies to stop abortions. I remember reading about one “abortionist” who was accused of eating “dead babies” for lunch. > > And they are still pushing the “abortions cause breast cancer” idea that has been totally debunked. The program that originally aired this story doesn’t have a particular stance against abortion as far as I know. I’m not saying the story is 100% true, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t at least based on something. SBS is a pretty major networking, and making up a story from thin air would seriously damage its credibility. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/23 "2011-08-10T22:14:32Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > This is my favorite part of that article: > > > [@](#): > > > > The companies purchase the baby corpses and store them in some family’s refrigerator to avoid suspicion. > > Emphasis mine. > > That’s where I store all of my baby corpses too, and no one’s the wiser! Yeah, how did I miss that one? It lends enormous credence to the story. Why risk cold storage at the drug company, when you can escape detection by using “some family’s refrigerator” to store your dead baby stockpile? Just make sure that everyone in the family is in on it. “Where’d Granny go?” “Down to the kitchen for a late night snack.” “Grandma, NOOO! Not _that_ fridge!!!” “AIEEEEEEEE!!!” ---
**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/24 "2011-08-10T22:35:32Z")
The dead baby/fetus stew was a pretty popular news story in China last year, complete with gory pictures. This seems pretty ho-hum in comparison. China’s a big place, so it wouldn’t surprise me if this actually did happen somewhere, but if it’s made up I won’t be too surprised either. It’s definitely not something the average Chinese would do. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/25 "2011-08-11T10:35:52Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > When my wife was in China studying for her university entrance exam, her father bought a human placenta from a hospital and made soup out of it; I guess human placenta was supposed to be “brain food”. Now it’s a big leap from placenta to aborted fetuses, but the idea doesn’t sound _completely_ impossible to me. _ **Seriously?!** _ :dubious: So you’re telling us that the Chinese actually save (And if you’re gonna _ **save** _ 'em, that would necessitate the need to _ **store** _ them.) the placentas from child births? And that human placentas are for sale to the general public, _ **for consumption?!** _ :dubious: _ **Eeeeeeeew!** _ ☹ :eek: Now maybe I’m just a _little bit_ prudish, but _ **that** _ just sounds… _ **nasty!** _ Besides the fact, that it borders on being cannibalistic! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/26 "2011-08-11T12:23:40Z")
> [@nani](#): > > The dead baby/fetus stew was a pretty popular news story in China last year, complete with gory pictures. This seems pretty ho-hum in comparison. There are “cures” in traditional Chinese medicine\* that involve consuming preserved parts of one’s relatives, or other people. A best-selling book a few years ago (“Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” by Mary Roach) discussed this, as well as a modern-day allegation of cannibalism in China (indignantly denied by the parties involved). Tales of “the old ways” may well feed modern rumors. \*interesting how proponents of TCM generally leave out this aspect of therapy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/27 "2011-08-11T12:40:41Z")
> [@HazelNutCoffee](#): > > The program that originally aired this story doesn’t have a particular stance against abortion as far as I know. > > I’m not saying the story is 100% true, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t at least based on something. SBS is a pretty major networking, and making up a story from thin air would seriously damage its credibility. Yeah, MBC is the outfit that made stuff up out of thin air. Thankfully, they no longer, AFAIK, have _PD Diary_. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/28 "2011-08-11T12:52:56Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > Besides the fact, that it borders on being cannibalistic! [Speaking of…](http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2011/08/182_92494.html) ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/29 "2011-08-11T13:28:54Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Speaking of…](http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2011/08/182_92494.html) Yeah, I saw that, too. She takes the box of ashes (actually, cremation remains are mostly crushed/powdered bone) _ **everywhere** _! :rolleyes: Definitely a little “out there”, but IMHO not _ **nearly** _ the ick factor of “ **placenta stew** ”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/30 "2011-08-11T13:46:48Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > And that human placentas are for sale to the general public, _ **for consumption?!** _ :dubious: I don’t think it was for sale to the general public. My wife presumes that he bribed someone, but she didn’t inquire too deeply at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/31 "2011-08-11T13:47:36Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > Yeah, I saw that, too. > She takes the box of ashes (actually, cremation remains are mostly crushed/powdered bone) _ **everywhere** _! :rolleyes: > > Definitely a little “out there”, but IMHO not _ **nearly** _ the ick factor of “ **placenta stew** ”. :eek: The idea of eating placenta is fairly widespread. I think there was a celebrity that participated in the not too distant past. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/32 "2011-08-11T13:52:12Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > When my wife was in China studying for her university entrance exam, her father bought a human placenta from a hospital and made soup out of it; I guess human placenta was supposed to be “brain food”. It’s not just a Chinese thing; Cecil did a [column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/686/is-there-really-such-a-thing-as-placenta-stew) on placenta stew in Berkley for example. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/33 "2011-08-11T14:13:05Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > The idea of eating placenta is fairly widespread. I think there was a celebrity that participated in the not too distant past. Sorry, but I’m going to have to disagree, based upon what Uncle Cecil has reported, on the subject. (Thanks for finding and posting that, Der Trihs! :)) Uncle Cecil, Bottomless Well of Wisdom. > [@](#): > > …(1) chowing down on placenta doesn’t happen often, but (2) it happens. May God have mercy on our heathen souls. > > My principal source on this is a physician who has attended roughly a thousand births in the San Francisco Bay area over the years, more than two-thirds of them at home. In all this time he has encountered placenta stew exactly once, in Berkeley in the early 1970s. … Hogarth > [@](#): > > I don’t think it was for sale to the general public. … Thank Og! 😛 I had the mental picture of a butcher shop style refrigerated case, complete with fresh, iced down fetuses and placentas. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/34 "2011-08-11T14:41:26Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > The idea of eating placenta is fairly widespread. I think there was a celebrity that participated in the not too distant past. Awhile back I linked to a website that offered to train women in the art :dubious: of preparing and preserving the placentas of newly delivered mothers for consumption (not everyone wants to use their own kitchen for this purpose). [Obligatory recipe page](http://www.twilightheadquarters.com/placenta.html). And if this looks revolting, it should be. Of all the human organs one could consume, placenta is intrinsically one of the least appetizing, seeing as it is basically a slimy membranous sac filled with blood. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/35 "2011-08-11T15:57:57Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Awhile back I linked to a website that offered to train women in the art :dubious: of preparing and preserving the placentas of newly delivered mothers for consumption (not everyone wants to use their own kitchen for this purpose). > > [Obligatory recipe page](http://www.twilightheadquarters.com/placenta.html). > > And if this looks revolting, it should be. Of all the human organs one could consume, placenta is intrinsically one of the least appetizing, seeing as it is basically a slimy membranous sac filled with blood. I am **NOT** going to click on that link, Jackmanni!.. :dubious: … … … … … … … … … … … … Damn it! :smack: I just _ **knew** _, I would regret doing that!:eek: You could have **at least** given us a warning, about the extremely disgusting pictures! (and in, you guessed it, full _ **vivid** _ color) :mad: ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/36 "2011-08-11T18:53:53Z")
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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/37 "2011-08-12T10:00:50Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > Yeah, I saw that, too. > She takes the box of ashes (actually, cremation remains are mostly crushed/powdered bone) _ **everywhere** _! :rolleyes: Reminded me of the _Hot Off the Grill_ episode of _Married…with Children_. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/38 "2011-08-12T10:12:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Reminded me of the _Hot Off the Grill_ episode of _Married…with Children_. Or this one episode of _Night Court_; “That wasn’t herb tea. That was Herb!” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/39 "2011-08-12T12:35:04Z")
Back to the OP. If dead babies can be ground up and help with male stamina, well. . .they’re dead already, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-baby-sex-pills-this-cant-be-for-real-can-it/592183/40 "2011-08-12T13:05:47Z")
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