Yes I do. For ferther information about myself and blood, see: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=296597&highlight=Human+Blood
You are only a weirdo when you suck the blood of others.
Yeah, I got the impression that this was fairly standard practice, too. Doesn’t saliva help with healing or something, too? I remember hearing that somewhere, and figured that would explain why the instinctive ‘cut finger, put finger in mouth’ thing exists. I can’t really back that up, but it does seem that cuts on the inside of my mouth heal pretty fast.
~ Isaac
I knew a girl in High School that was always trying to do that. she was a little odd.
I did it once, when I was in a particularly gothy mood with a girl I liked… she had scraped her arm on her locker, so I grabber her arm, looked at her and slooooowly licked the blood that was puddling in the scrape.
She shuddered, and gave me the oddest look. Shortly after that, she disappeared.
Didn’t taste bad at all.
And yes, I will lick my own wounds if I can reach it.
That sounds really… sexy…
If someone I knew did that to me, I’d shudder, but in sheer delight. I think that’s really hot, and I’d do it… seriously.
:o
You’re going to look back on posts like these in 15 years and be sooo embarrassed.
Dinaroozie, yeah saliva is mildly antibiotic, or so sayeth my biology lecturer last year. It’s one of the reasons (actually, I think the main reason) every cut in your mouth doesn’t become hugely inflamed.
Saliva contains a coagulant. That’s why you “lick your wounds”, literally if not metaphorically.
I do. It’s no big deal.
I do. It’s the quickest, easiest way for me to clean it before I put a band-aid on it. I don’t want oozing scabs underneath a band-aid: it attracts dirt and crap. I’d rather have a little moisture (even if it’s spit), than oozeness.
“Spit” the wonder stuff: It digests, it cleans, it lubes! One thousand porn stars can’t be wrong!
Tripler
“Spit: Making life easier since 50,000 B.C.”
That’s interesting. Sorta makes sense, since mouth wounds do seem to heal faster than other wounds.
As for saliva being mildly antibiotic, I suppose that would make sense too, but they always say human bite wounds are some of the worst because are mouths are so germy.
Better to let your dog lick your wounds. But personally, I’m not sure I’d want my dog or my cat developing a taste for my blood.
Yeah, I kinda like the taste of my own blood. Not to the extent that I cut myself to drink it or anything, but if I should cut my finger . . . yum! Never tried anyone else’s blood, though. Tripler, are you implying that spit failed to improve the quality of life prior to 50,000 B.C.?
Well, yeah. It’s a well known fact that mankind didn’t develop salivary glands before October 19th, 50,000 BC. Hell, he didn’t develop teeth until the late third dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt (under pharoh Sekhemkhet).
Tripler
See, the Egyptians gave us pyramids and pearly whites!
Yeah, it worked a lot better when I looked like I did in High School… thinner, long hair, incredibly pale, etc.
30 Year old father of three is just pathetic if trying to Goth out.
Yeah, same here. Seems pointless to let a spot of blood fall on your shirt because you’re wondering if its socially acceptable 
I’m another person who looked at the thread title and thought, “doesn’t everyone?”
I do this all the time. I’ve no clue what a scab is, but if I slightly wound myself, I tend to lick/suck the wound if it’s conveniently reachable. Not because I like the taste, but because…well…I don’t know why. It’s a reflex.
My feeling too, roughly. It never occured to me that it could seem weird to other people.
Just curious. Are you generally phobic about blood, or is it speciically the idea of ingesting it that bothers you?
I guess for me, it’s just not something you see people do very often, nor is it something people talk about very often. Unlike say, farting or nose-picking, things that everyone does, but generally don’t talk about much. But it can be somewhat comical when you catch someone picking their nose, or catch them in a fart.
I honestly don’t recall seeing people lick their own cuts, scrapes & freshly picked scabs. Sure, everyone instinctively sucks their finger when they get a small cut or something.
I’m one of those people who loves to pick scabs off, but most of my life I never felt the need to lick the blood off. I’d just get a tissue or something and dab the wound until the bleeding stopped.
This is kind of a recent thing with me. I’ve always been a pretty good bleeder, and as I’ve gotten older, it just seems like little insect bites and such quickly turn into scabs. I pick 'em, they get a little bigger, I pick 'em again and I get a pretty good blood flow going, usually on my arms but small scabs on my legs can really gush. Ok, not gush, but you know.
It doesn’t help that this cat I have, he’s very gentle and has never deliberately scratched me. He’s pretty careful. But his claws are so damn sharp and filthy all he has to do is place a paw on me and wherever those claws touched will turn into little scabs. Which of course I’m more than willing to pick. I also wear shorts a lot, which exposes my skin to more damage, I guess. At any given moment, there at least a couple scabs somewhere on my arms or legs I could pick and get blood. I never know, absent mindedly picking one of these things, whether it’s going to be a bleeder or not.
So, rather than carrying tissue around all the time, I started sucking on some of those babies.
Again, I didn’t realize it was something that everyone does because, I myself didn’t do it until relatively recently.
Oh, and clairobscur, a scab is
Basically it’s that hard, dried blood on a small wound. You pick it off, it starts bleeding again.
Er, yeah? Unless it’s a cut inflicted by my cats’ claws, in which case I slap some neosporin on it and don’t lick it. 