# Disease & drug transmission from a bodily fluid

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disease-drug-transmission-from-a-bodily-fluid/172379>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 1, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disease-drug-transmission-from-a-bodily-fluid/172379 "2003-05-01T14:15:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Flying\_Monk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@Flying\_Monk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flying_Monk)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disease-drug-transmission-from-a-bodily-fluid/172379/1 "2003-05-01T14:15:50Z")

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My wife thinks that if she drinks my semen when I have a cold, she can catch it as well. (At least, she tells me she thinks this) She’s also concerned that if I use marijuana my semen will have traces of it, and cause her to fail a drug test. What are the actual chances of either virus or drug transmission through semen ingestion?

## Of course, this is all purely hypothetical…

They live, we sleep.

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**Author:** ![db4530](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@db4530](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/db4530)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disease-drug-transmission-from-a-bodily-fluid/172379/2 "2003-05-01T14:46:40Z")

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I wonder if your wife would be as averse to drinking your semen from a teaspoon as she is to drinking it from the source?

Anyway, I think her fears are dubious, but I have no proof one way or the other.

Just don’t let her get away with the “too many calories” argument. Cecil already took care of that one.

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_054.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_054.html)