# 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:** 11
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/61 "2013-06-23T00:15:35Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Interesting sidenote on the use of semen as an invisible ink - you could also do a DNA test to verify the writer’s identity.
Not if you use someone else’s semen.
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/62 "2013-06-23T00:29:56Z")
> [@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.
IIRC, this is a plot line in Jacqueline Susann’s _Once Is Not Enough._
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### Author:  [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/63 "2013-06-23T01:11:11Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> What, you mean like [pan-fried](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=198659)?
That’s got to be one of the top ten threads on the internet.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/64 "2013-07-17T21:33:25Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> 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.
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> **Mangetout** , sorry, but I can’t help myself.
It took me a while to find this post (while I was vanity-searching for something else).
Will you please FUCKING STOP mentioning me in connection with the consumption of semen.
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### Author:  [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/65 "2013-07-17T22:09:44Z")
What’s your connection to eating semen?
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/66 "2013-07-17T22:17:29Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#):
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> What’s your connection to eating semen?
None.
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### Author:  [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/67 "2013-07-17T23:23:41Z")
You’re in denial. 😃
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### Author:  [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/68 "2013-07-17T23:44:08Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> None
, he ejaculated.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/69 "2013-07-17T23:55:42Z")
Some fish store their semen in a large mass, called milt, and yes, people do eat it. Mike Rowe did on a “Dirty Jobs” episode, and Dave Barry did too, while he was covering the 1998 Winter Olympics. It was not long after the Lewinsky story broke, and the waitress wouldn’t tell them what this stuff was until after they all ate it. The people around the table then cracked jokes with punch lines that rhymed with “Fresident Flinton”.
😛
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/70 "2013-07-18T01:15:07Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#):
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> What’s your connection to eating semen?
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> None.
Methinks you doth protest too much.
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-semen-used-for-anything-else/655185/71 "2013-07-18T02:29:33Z")
Unfortunately–I like **Mangetout** –Barbra Streisand is now singing at the top of her lungs.
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