I dunno, I’d be a lot more weirded out if she died first and then had her first unprotected sex afterward. Let’s keep things in their proper order, shall we?
A man with a forceful enough orgasm could theoretically blow off the back of your head… so don’t date superman…
FML
I don’t think so, no. We generally have far more “healthy” bacteria on us than dangerous bacteria. Some healthy bacteria does things directly for us - like help break down food in our gut, and some doesn’t do much directly for us either way, but takes up real estate and food so that bad bacteria don’t have a place to move in and thrive. Most of them don’t cause a problem if you get them into a new place, say a cut or scrape or in your mouth.
The big three bacteria we have that are harmless normally and dangerous in the wrong place are e. coli, staph and strep. E coli is found in the intestine, where it’s safe, but can cause illness if eaten; staph and strep are found on nearly all skin and mucus membranes, and can cause infections if they get in scrapes or cuts or in the blood.
If you’re getting e coli from semen, you’re doing it wrong. 
You win the pedant race - yes, there is bacteria in healthy semen. But it’s not bacteria that is likely to cause illness when swallowed. Semen isn’t “dirty”, although it’s not sterile like urine.
I seem to recall (though i have no cite or link to thread) some poster wrote about one pregnant woman, who felt quite faint, that she went to the doctor in fear for her health and her unborn child. After examination and test results, it turns out that she had intercourse with her dog and she was allergic to its semen.
Where do you have lunch and is there a clinical trial I can be a part of? 
Fair enough, then.
Let the record show that I am certainly not in favor of any scurrilous rumor that results in less head.
Please tell me what party this is a platform plank of so that I may change my affiliation accordingly 
coughpartyofClintoncough
I think another question worth pondering is “How long could a human being survive on a diet of pure semen?” And would the answer depend on the diet of the man providing the semen?
Well, since Cecil didn’t address the nutritional content of semen, just the approximate caloric value, we’ll have to look elsewhere for an expert opinion. Google quickly found me this answer from an MD on a urology forum:
So, very low carbs, very low fat, and probably not much in the way of vitamins and minerals. I’d except someone on a semen only diet to develop diarrhea and other symptoms of “rabbit starvation” within a fortnight (sooner if they were slender to begin with), and rickets, scurvy and other vitamin deficiencies if they continued longer.
God, I love this board.
Ummmm, no.
Semen should be sterile, just like urine, when it leaves the body. Unless infection such as prostatitis or orchiditis is present.
Blood and cerebrospinal fluid should also be sterile.
Maybe I don’t understand what “sterile” means, then. There is some amount of bacteria in healthy semen, according to this abstract, unless I’m reading it wrong:
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And from here:
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Now, of course, I’m an A&P student at the moment and you know vastly more about this stuff than I do! If you have a moment to explain why I’m wrong, that’d be super. I have a test on Thursday. 
The answer to the question is yes and here’s the proof, courtesy of Too $hort:
IIRC, I read some time ago that it also contains a natural drug evolved to manipulate a female body into diverting extra energy towards reproduction; a drug which normally has no effect because females have developed a resistance to it ( a kind of Red Queen’s Race common in nature I understand ). However, there was an experiment where a strain of lab rats were bred to have extra concentrations of this substance - which still had no effect because the females got more resistant right along with them. But when they tried breeding a male of this strain to a normal female, she died - her body diverted so much to her reproductive system that her other organs couldn’t function.
Assuming that human males have the same substance ( IIRC they do ), it seems to me that enough of it could have the same effect.
WhyNot, you are correct and I am in error. My bad. Current thinking is that a certain degree of colonization by bacteria is often normal and not a marker for disease.
Thank you for pointing out my mistake and giving me the opportunity to advance my continuing education.
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Yes, you too for raising the issue originally… :smack: