How can one make their sperm taste better?
WAG Salt and pepper?
A woman I used to…date asked me to avoid eating meat. Said that made a difference, and, of course, that was all I needed to become a temporary vegetarian.
Please try not to get it in anyone’s eye. It hurts.
Has anyone done any kind of real study? You hear stuff about pineapple, but is there any real proof anything helps? You certainly can’t change the pH of your body by eating food (or perhaps I should put it that “if you eat things that change the pH of your body, you will die, and those things are therefore not considered foods.”) So the idea that eating acidic foods will change the pH of your semen seems incredibly unlikely to me.
I’m inclined to think that most of the recommendations are simple superstition, especially given how much they match up to people’s general ideas about what sorts of foods make you healthy. At least until I hear about a double-blind study.
No obvious jokes about volunteering as a subject, please.
A little OT question - is it possible to get heartburn from ingesting semen?
Nothin’ says lovin’ like ‘honey could you get me the Tums’
Don’t all the widely varying and sometimes contradictory responses here indicate that there is no answer?
Maybe the PH change is the wrong way to phrase it, but what you eat and drink affects your other bodily fluids so why wouldn’t it also affect semen?
Well, I would believe garlic and onions affect it, as the odors of those are certainly reproduced in sweat. And I’ve heard that asparagus can lend semen an odd taste, though I’ve never run into it myself. Certainly believable, given the odor it gives your urine. But the general assertion that what you eat and drink affects your bodily fluids - aside from these few specific examples whose presence make themselves known in all that you exude - again seems odd to me. What other bodily fluids have you tasted? I’ve never heard that you can make your sweat taste different, or your urine, depending on your diet. I’m not convinced that bodily fluids mostly can be altered in that way. What bodily fluids are you talking about, and how can you affect them with what you eat and drink?
A few examples, you already mentioned sweat, I know people who have tasted urine and they attest that it tastes different depending on the persons diet, they even say you can taste the alcohol if the person had been drinking. The color and odor of urine certainly fluctuates depending on vitimin levels and such. I wouldn’t discount the odor factor either, smell is a strong componant of taste. Perhaps not taste, but blood is affected by diet (sugar levels, alcohol etc).
I’m sure there’s more, but that’s what I’ve got off the top of my head. I’m not aware of studies about this, so all I could offer currently is personal experience.
You have friends into kinky sex, huh? Urine is a bit different, though, as its exact composition depends on what the body’s getting rid of. Nitrogenous wastes, of course, but also various salts and the metabolic products of a lot of different things. Semen is made for a specific purpose - it’s not just a dumping ground. It’s content is designed to carry sperm through the harsh and forbidding environment of the female reproductive system. I would imagine the production tolerances, if you will, are a bit tight.
I’m a fan of sucking dick, but in my opinion at least, semen is not really a good end unto itself. My general experience leads me to believe that there’s probably things you can do to make it taste particularly bad, but it’s never going to be a mouthful of crème brulée. I’d believe you can make it taste considerably worse than the baseline by eating the wrong things, but I’m doubting you can make it substantially better.
Besides, again, I’m skeptical largely because so many rumors get passed about the subject but there doesn’t seem to be anything substantial to back them up. I tend towards a good deal of skepticism. Only the most dedicated of cocksuckers could possibly have enough samples to really know these things, and even then that’s only assuming they got dietary records and kept notes. The more usual experience strikes me as just as problematic as every other instance of people observing things and repeating them - simply a lack of real data to lead to verifiable results.
Might that just reflect the fact that fewer people are in the habit of tasting sweat or urine? Clearly, if you can make your sweat or urine smell different (as you yourself accept in the first line of your post), you can make them taste different, too.
Not saying that I have all the answers, just offering up my experience. I suppose I could conduct a more detailed study (It’s not like my BF would mind), but not sure I want to mess with my diet too much, trying to lose weight!
Russell
I have a completely unfounded theory that funky-tasting semen can be blamed partly on the fact that it shares an exit passage with urine, which can be rich in urea and other stuff. I would not want to suck on the stovepipe of a person who consumed a lot of coffee and excess protein (meat or vegetable).
And as for the effects of ingestion of garlic, many body effluents, fluids, excretions, etc. are affected by it. For many people, sweat is one. Whether it tastes different, I can’t say, but it surely does smell garlicky on some people. And I must offer testimony here that at least one female partner of mine did exude the odor of garlic from her nether regions, to the extent that it precluded continued activity that I usually adore, rendering the rest of the evening pretty much a waste. But I digress. Fact is, garlic is something that can show up lots of places in the body.
I guess I’m simply not inclined to believe it’s true to a substantial degree until there’s evidence. Obviously it’s hard to gather anything beyond anecdotes on the subject, but like I said, I tend toward skepticism. I’m not inclined to believe many of the silly sexual rumors that get spread around.
Here’s a list of alkaline foods:
http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/acid.html
It doesn’t include one of the all-time best, red chile peppers. Green, too, for that matter. The chiles grow in tremendously alkaline soil. They can sometimes forms suds in cooking water, they are so far to the soapy end of the pH scale.
I would gradually feed the sperm an increasing variety of gourmet foods and wines with a brief lecture about the relevant salient qualities.
Any of the aformentioned food concocktions will make it taste better if applied topically, too, but if s/he can taste it (non-topically) s/he’s doing it wrong.