We’ve all heard the rumour about <insert name of rock star here> collapsing and being rushed to the hospital, where the doctors think it’s a drug overdose so they pump his stomach only to find a bunch of semen. But could a human die from an overdoes of semen? If so, how much would be required? How many men would it take?
If not human, is there some animal semen that could kill a person? Which animal and how much?
Some days my co-workers & I have interesting lunchtime conversations.
Dear me you sure can ask the darndest questions.
I guess if you fell into an Olympic size pool full of jizz and you couldn’t swim…:eek:
The amount necessary to cause drowning?
What would they die from? It’s just composed of cells and the nutrition required for those cells. It’s probably somewhat nutritious.
It’s like asking if someone could overdose from meat or protein shakes.
In short, no.
What’s gray and comes in quarts and gallons?
An elephant
I suppose that a full ejaculation from a Blue Whale would burst your stomach, but that’s the only cause of mortality I could see.
Presumably there’s a good deal of bacteria in there too.
What if you shot it up?
Dried it and inhaled it?
Not in a healthy man, no. Having bacteria in the semen would be an indication of infections - and even there, most (not all, but most) bacteria is killed by stomach acid. I mean, I wouldn’t want to swallow the semen of a man with HIV, HPV, bladder, prostate or other urinogential infection, but healthy semen shouldn’t be particularly bacteria ridden. Certainly not as much as boogers, seeing as their role is to catch and hold on to bacteria. And people do eat boogers and survive it.
It is possible to be allergic to semen, and there have been cases of women who died after having sex unprotected for the first time from an allergic reaction. It’s pretty damn rare however.
Pan fried?!?!
Cite? Not for the allergic to semen - I’ve heard that too, but “died after having sex unprotected for the first time” reeks of scaremongering Urban Legend to me. Not to mention contrary to the little I know of the allergy process - where you have to be exposed to the potential allergen at least once to sensitize you before you have an allergic reaction to it the 2nd, 3rd or nth exposure.
It is (hopefully) rare to eat someone else’s though.
This study (sorry, can’t figure out how to view more than the abstract) suggests that there’s a pretty good variety of bacteria present in the seminal fluid normally.
Nothing from the normal men would cause a problem when ingested. I assumed by your context you meant pathogens - bacteria that would cause illness. Yes, I’ll grant you that “bacteria” are present in semen, as they are everywhere - on your skin, your eyelids, your partner’s tongue…
Cecil can give you some info on nutritional value.
Well, considering that one of the older English definitions for the word “die” can also mean orgasm…
I took a quick look for the %DNA content of semen, and did not turn up a decent figure for it.
Can’t almost any human-basic flora cause illness if it gets in the right orifice?
On the off chance you’re actually wondering about this and not just being silly, I’ll throw out a couple of WAGs, in inverse order to your questions.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor and have no medical knowledge whatsoever, but I do know quite a bit about routes/methods of administration for various licit, semi-legit, and undeniably unlawful substances.
I do not think snorting or smoking (not sure which you meant by “inhaled”, here) dehydrated jit would be likely to have much of an effect on a person – other than probably triggering a sneeze attack or a coughing fit, depending on which one you did. Dried jit would be an inert protein powder; methinks consuming it thusways would be like insufflating powdered milk or smoking Gainer’s Fuel.
Slamming the stuff, on the other hand, sounds like it would be a very bad thing to do, indeed – because it would probably be rather thicker than the blood it was injected into, therefore likely to coagulate and become a clot of foreign matter in the bloodstream which could block off circulation to a limb or a vital organ, triggering all manner of ill effects from gangrene to heart attack to cerebral embolism.