# If you are drunk or stoned when you ejaculate are your sperm drunk & stoned also? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 13, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-drunk-or-stoned-when-you-ejaculate-are-your-sperm-drunk-stoned-also/685979 "2014-04-13T01:27:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-drunk-or-stoned-when-you-ejaculate-are-your-sperm-drunk-stoned-also/685979/1 "2014-04-13T01:27:10Z")
Just curious. Assuming drugs are carried everywhere by your bloodstream do they effect sperm performance or behavior if you ejaculate into a fertile woman’s vagina when drunk or stoned? In other words do your sperm get “stoned” also? ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-drunk-or-stoned-when-you-ejaculate-are-your-sperm-drunk-stoned-also/685979/2 "2014-04-13T02:34:50Z")
Well, regarding being stoned, assuming you mean on marijuana, that’s basically a matter of THC binding to certain receptors in neurons in the brain. So it’s a central nervous system phenomenon. I think the same would apply to most other drugs (central nevous system stimulants and depressants). Not sure about alcohol, actually, but I think it’s the same deal. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-drunk-or-stoned-when-you-ejaculate-are-your-sperm-drunk-stoned-also/685979/3 "2014-04-13T03:01:00Z")
[Friday Weird Science: Cannabis and sperm, gettin the semen high](http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2012/06/15/friday-weird-science-cannabis-and-sperm-gettin-the-semen-high/) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-drunk-or-stoned-when-you-ejaculate-are-your-sperm-drunk-stoned-also/685979/4 "2014-04-13T03:11:10Z")
[Alcohol hinders having a baby through IVF.](http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/20/alcohol-hinders-baby-ivf) There are effects on both males and females, but the male effect would likely be on sperm. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-drunk-or-stoned-when-you-ejaculate-are-your-sperm-drunk-stoned-also/685979/5 "2014-04-13T03:52:06Z")
Whoops. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-drunk-or-stoned-when-you-ejaculate-are-your-sperm-drunk-stoned-also/685979/6 "2014-04-13T04:25:18Z")
they can’t swim a straight line. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-drunk-or-stoned-when-you-ejaculate-are-your-sperm-drunk-stoned-also/685979/8 "2014-04-13T20:47:28Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > they can’t swim a straight line. You’ve got to be drunk and stoned to try to penetrate a female a gazillion times your size. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-drunk-or-stoned-when-you-ejaculate-are-your-sperm-drunk-stoned-also/685979/9 "2014-04-14T03:50:19Z")
Being drunk or stoned enhances the sperm’s performance just as it enhances the man’s social interactions that lead to the copulation. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-drunk-or-stoned-when-you-ejaculate-are-your-sperm-drunk-stoned-also/685979/10 "2014-04-14T16:45:00Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > they can’t swim a straight line. There probably a way to work “No left turn unstoned” into this.🆒