# Semen acts as an anti-depressant **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 9, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-acts-as-an-anti-depressant/118126 "2002-07-09T23:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-acts-as-an-anti-depressant/118126/1 "2002-07-09T23:47:14Z")
Just HAD to post this for opinions! And, unlike Prozac, Zoloft, etc., it’s free for the asking 🙂 [http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992457](http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992457) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-acts-as-an-anti-depressant/118126/2 "2002-07-09T23:49:54Z")
Yeah, you and at least two other people have started threads on in the past two weeks… ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-acts-as-an-anti-depressant/118126/3 "2002-07-10T01:29:10Z")
Sounds like the “Semen helps you lose weight” pickup line used on unintelligent females. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-acts-as-an-anti-depressant/118126/4 "2002-07-10T04:28:34Z")
Just don’t [self medicate](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44749)! ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-acts-as-an-anti-depressant/118126/5 "2002-07-10T04:34:11Z")
Lame. “Always uses condoms” leads to different results from “doesn’t have sex?” Not to mention that “always uses condoms” is apparently better than “usually uses condoms”. Sounds like no real conclusions can be drawn. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-acts-as-an-anti-depressant/118126/6 "2002-07-10T05:17:34Z")
I prefer Celexa. Less aftertaste. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-acts-as-an-anti-depressant/118126/7 "2002-07-10T06:39:32Z")
Well, I read about that last week, and since then I’ve been dosing myself daily. It seems to work– Myself, I don’t notice _much_ difference, but all my friends are saying that all of the sudden, I’m really gay. So there must be _something_ in it. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-acts-as-an-anti-depressant/118126/8 "2002-07-10T06:46:07Z")
It doesn’t matter if there were any REAL results. If there’s any sex survey anywhere, it must be news.