# Is semen used for anything else?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 8, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185 "2013-04-08T21:32:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2013, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/41 "2013-04-11T05:02:34Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> …Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming noted of his agents that “Every man (is) his own stylo”…
As “C,” he inspired Ian Fleming to create “M” in the James Bond stories: [Mansfield Smith-Cumming - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming)
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### Author:  [@WhyWhyWhy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyWhyWhy)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/42 "2013-04-11T05:32:50Z")
I’m so pissed that no one has mentioned my pearl necklace factory!
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2013, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/43 "2013-04-11T05:45:16Z")
Does anybody else here remember that thread where a real estate ad had something about including a cum-pool? 😃
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### Author:  [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2013, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/44 "2013-04-11T07:55:55Z")
[Milt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt), which are sperm-filled fish and mollusc gonads is eaten in some countries. In Japan, it’s called _shiroko_ and it’s a fairly common winter delicacy.
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/45 "2013-06-21T15:54:43Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#):
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> This pub was doing good business a few years back with [shots from a horse](http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/5176745/Women-flock-to-take-horse-semen-shots) :eek:
New book out, _[Semonology: The Semen Bartenders Handbook](http://www.amazon.com/Semenology-The-Semen-Bartenders-Handbook/dp/1482605228)_. Human sperm. I see what he did there. Nice cover shot, but probably art project, not serious guide to taste combinations.
**Mangetout** , sorry, but I can’t help myself.
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### Author:  [@Dynastia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dynastia)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/46 "2013-06-21T16:00:30Z")
Gladiators sold vials of their used bathing oil, not sweat or semen. (Romans bathed by taking a sauna, then coating themselves in oil, then scraping it off)
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/47 "2013-06-21T16:12:27Z")
> [@jovan](#):
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> [Milt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt), which are sperm-filled fish and mollusc gonads is eaten in some countries. In Japan, it’s called _shiroko_ and it’s a fairly common winter delicacy.
Yep. Eastern European cooking has it, too. I’ve had it in Hungarian fish stews as well as breaded and deep-fried. I thought it was actually quite tasty. [Here’s a pic of the deep fried version](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7lvJu3gfFx8/T5F79mKQlpI/AAAAAAAAE-0/w5DhmxZ2TtQ/s1600/haltej.jpg). (The name in Hungarian is _haltej_ meaning “fish milk.”)
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/48 "2013-06-21T17:37:10Z")
i read some where it is a dental caries preventative.
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/49 "2013-06-21T17:45:20Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Yep. Eastern European cooking has it, too. I’ve had it in Hungarian fish stews as well as breaded and deep-fried. I thought it was actually quite tasty. [Here’s a pic of the deep fried version](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7lvJu3gfFx8/T5F79mKQlpI/AAAAAAAAE-0/w5DhmxZ2TtQ/s1600/haltej.jpg). (The name in Hungarian is _haltej_ meaning “fish milk.”)
Well, since you’re going that way, lamb fries, Rocky Mountain oysters, _animelles_ etc. are heartily consumed the world over.
So are sea urchin gonads by the way, oftentimes male.
But I understood this thread to be about ejaculated semen/sperm. :: Harumph about hijacking ::
(Do sea urchins have semen? Doubt it.)
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/50 "2013-06-21T17:56:00Z")
Just last month (in another example of Straight Dope Serendipity[sup]TM[/sup]), [it was discovered](http://investorintel.com/rare-earth-press/fish-milt-used-to-glean-rare-earths/) that salmon milt can be key to a “low-cost and environment friendly” way to smelt rare earth metals.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/51 "2013-06-21T20:41:12Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Well, since you’re going that way, lamb fries, Rocky Mountain oysters, _animelles_ etc. are heartily consumed the world over.
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> So are sea urchin gonads by the way, oftentimes male.
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> But I understood this thread to be about ejaculated semen/sperm. :: Harumph about hijacking ::
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> (Do sea urchins have semen? Doubt it.)
Fish do, and those sacs do contain fish semen, although, obviously, not ejaculated.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/52 "2013-06-22T02:51:13Z")
[Expert Heather Locklear swears by semen as an ant-aging cream](http://lifestyle.myjoyonline.com/pages/health/201304/104695.php).
The linked story says such treatments climaxed, heh, in popularity around 2009, but I’m sure I remember it being a fad in the 1970s.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/53 "2013-06-22T03:35:05Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> [Expert Heather Locklear swears by semen as an ant-aging cream](http://lifestyle.myjoyonline.com/pages/health/201304/104695.php).
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> The linked story says such treatments climaxed, heh, in popularity around 2009, but I’m sure I remember it being a fad in the 1970s.
Huh. I can understand her frustration, but that sounds like one hell of an inefficient insecticide.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/54 "2013-06-22T04:17:52Z")
_Cosmo_’s late editor Helen Gurley Brown swore by semen as a facial treatment.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/55 "2013-06-22T14:14:04Z")
And do you know who _else_ swore by semen as a facial treatment?
As for the link to the Heather Locklear story and photo, she looks to me like a 51-year-old lady. I doubt I would mistake her for her 15-year-old daughter.
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### Author:  [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/56 "2013-06-22T15:47:36Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming
Anybody ever see him and \*\*mangeorge \*\*in the same place at the same time? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/57 "2013-06-22T18:01:53Z")
Interesting sidenote on the use of semen as an invisible ink - you could also do a DNA test to verify the writer’s identity.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/58 "2013-06-22T18:23:19Z")
Not an issue in World War II, of course.
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### Author:  [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/59 "2013-06-22T19:46:00Z")
I’ll just leave this here [New Zealand pub serves apple-flavoured horse semen | Metro News](http://metro.co.uk/2011/06/28/horse-semen-sold-in-new-zealand-pub-59769/)
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/60 "2013-06-22T21:02:34Z")
> [@boomerwang](#):
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> I’ll just leave this here [http://metro.co.uk/2011/06/28/horse-semen-sold-in-new-zealand-pub-59769/](http://metro.co.uk/2011/06/28/horse-semen-sold-in-new-zealand-pub-59769/)
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