# Pineapple Juice Makes Sex Delicious? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 18, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395 "2011-07-18T00:44:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HoratioOliveira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@HoratioOliveira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoratioOliveira)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/1 "2011-07-18T00:44:30Z")
Is it true that pineapple juice makes your nether regions taste/smell good? People claim that it makes you taste sweeter, but I can’t imagine the mechanism by which this would occur. If you’re actually excreting sugar it should turn you into a breeding ground for bacteria, right? And if you’re not, then what is going on. A lot of people seem to report this all over the internet, but I couldn’t find a link to any reputable source. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/2 "2011-07-18T00:50:41Z")
How are you applying it? Intravenously, topically, or orally? ---
**Author:** ![HoratioOliveira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@HoratioOliveira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoratioOliveira)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/3 "2011-07-18T00:53:27Z")
Ah, sorry. That would be orally. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/4 "2011-07-18T00:55:01Z")
> [@HoratioOliveira](#): > > Ah, sorry. That would be orally. Oral sex makes everything taste better. 🙂 OK, OK, this is GQ. I’m not qualified to speculate how body chemistry might be altered by eating a pineapple. But some things supposedly do alter body odors and pH, etc. and what goes in must come out, somehow. Think cranberry juice for urinary infections (but I’m not sure that’s a valid treatment). ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/5 "2011-07-18T01:12:42Z")
Specifically, it [makes semen taste better](http://www.askmen.com/dating/love_tip_400/408_love_tip.html): > [@](#): > > The majority of women prefer not to swallow semen, but your girlfriend may be persuaded if you make an effort to make your spunk taste better. A vegetarian diet is the best way to make your taste milder. If you’re not ready to go meatless, try eating foods like kiwi, watermelon, pineapple, and celery to lighten the taste. Make your semen taste sweeter by incorporating plums, blueberries and cranberries into your diet. Beer and coffee will make you taste bitter and dairy products can produce putrid tastes. ---
**Author:** ![HoratioOliveira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@HoratioOliveira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoratioOliveira)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/6 "2011-07-18T01:25:21Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Specifically, it [makes semen taste better](http://www.askmen.com/dating/love_tip_400/408_love_tip.html): Right, this is the kind of thing I’ve been seeing (though I also found lots of reports that it makes women’s juices taste good, too), but none of them actually seem to be sourced. Yahoo! Answers, Reddit, and Metafilter all carry firsthand reports of this phenomenon, but I was wondering if anyone had heard anything authoritative on the subject. I guess there aren’t a lot of peer-reviewed journal articles on the subject for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/7 "2011-07-18T01:43:29Z")
Kind of a hard thing to study objectively isn’t it? “OK panel, before you are 10 samples of semen. On a scale from one to ten…” Gah - I can’t even finish typing that. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/8 "2011-07-18T02:43:40Z")
I’ve heard from folks with more objective experience that diet definitely has an influence, with fruit having the best result. None of them did a double-blind between apples, pears, and pineapples, but I have no trouble believing pineapple would be a good one. ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/9 "2011-07-18T10:30:47Z")
I have it on good authority that this is in fact true. Drinking pineaple juice (and other sweet fruitjuices) makes your semen taste better, while garlic and coffee brings the bitterness… ---
**Author:** ![GiantRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@GiantRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GiantRat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/10 "2011-07-18T12:19:08Z")
My ex forbade wasabi peas. She was adamant about their impact on… flavor. Perhaps I’ll go on a Wasabi binge today and pretend I’m a monk. Damn, I love wasabi peas. ---
**Author:** ![wisernow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@wisernow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wisernow)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/11 "2011-07-18T15:15:40Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Kind of a hard thing to study objectively isn’t it? > > “OK panel, before you are 10 samples of semen. On a scale from one to ten…” > > Gah - I can’t even finish typing that. Pay me 100 dollars a sample and I am willing to leave my current job and do this ‘tasting’ full time. The samples would have to be certified ‘healthy’ otherwise, of course. Finding someone to pay me for this work…well that might be difficult though. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/12 "2011-07-18T15:50:08Z")
> [@wisernow](#): > > Pay me 100 dollars a sample and I am willing to leave \*\*my current job \*\*and do this ‘tasting’ full time. The samples would have to be certified ‘healthy’ otherwise, of course. > > Finding someone to pay me for this work…well that might be difficult though. What the holy hell do you do? :eek: And why aren’t you hanging out [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=585296)? ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/13 "2011-07-18T16:42:17Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Kind of a hard thing to study objectively isn’t it? > > “OK panel, before you are 10 samples of semen. On a scale from one to ten…” > > Gah - I can’t even finish typing that. Well there are certain lines of work where someone might get into contact with different samples of semen ‘naturally’:eek:. I’ll concede this wouldn’t hold up to the principals of scientific integrety, but still. Then there is the repeated measure design in which one participant may alter their diet, with a second participant giving various fedback… ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/14 "2011-07-18T16:48:55Z")
I chow down on asparagus regularly and my hoes just have to suck it up. If they get to complaining too much I just cut one to get em all back in line. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/15 "2011-07-18T16:49:19Z")
Sounds like a great premise for a porn series - “Taste Test”. Various starlet sampling the output of various studs. I don’t buy it myself. In the movie “Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy”, they interviewed women who were very complimentary about his flavor, but he has terrible eating habits. Personally, I think the claim is the result of a stealth marketing campaign for pineapple. ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/16 "2011-07-18T17:45:45Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Sounds like a great premise for a porn series - “Taste Test”. Various starlet sampling the output of various studs. > > I don’t buy it myself. In the movie “Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy”, they interviewed women who were very complimentary about his flavor, but he has terrible eating habits. > > Personally, I think the claim is the result of a stealth marketing campaign for pineapple. I actually saw a German porn movie, where the lead girl was tasting cups and matching the sample to the different male actors. She was pretty good at it as well. ---
**Author:** ![HoratioOliveira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@HoratioOliveira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoratioOliveira)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/17 "2011-07-18T19:45:12Z")
> [@polar\_bear](#): > > I have it on good authority that this is in fact true. Drinking pineaple juice (and other sweet fruitjuices) makes your semen taste better, while garlic and coffee brings the bitterness… The garlic thing doesn’t surprise me—like alcohol, that stuff gets in your bloodstream. I was sick a few years ago and my mom made me a big pot of garlic soup. It was delicious, but even the next day, after I had showered and brushed my teeth, I could smell it coming out of my pores. So maybe it isn’t such a crazy idea that pineapple juice could have the same effect. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/18 "2011-07-18T21:15:50Z")
> [@HoratioOliveira](#): > > The garlic thing doesn’t surprise me—like alcohol, that stuff gets in your bloodstream. I was sick a few years ago and my mom made me a big pot of garlic soup. It was delicious, but even the next day, after I had showered and brushed my teeth, I could smell it coming out of my pores. So maybe it isn’t such a crazy idea that pineapple juice could have the same effect. Ah, a thread on semen taste and Mom. Couldn’t be better. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/19 "2011-07-18T21:29:36Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Ah, a thread on semen taste and Mom. Couldn’t be better. By a poster with Horatio in his name. There’s a dirty limerick just begging to be written. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395/20 "2011-07-18T23:24:13Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > By a poster with Horatio in his name. There’s a dirty limerick just begging to be written. There was a young man named Horatio Who was a great fan of fellatio He told his mum About garlic in his cum And from that she worked out his whore-ratio. What do I win? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pineapple-juice-makes-sex-delicious/589395.md?page=2)