# Semen contamination of computer mice.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 24, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055 "2012-12-24T21:24:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055/41 "2012-12-26T00:16:54Z")
Seems a bit unfair to have over this to IMHO when the OP wanted real answers.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055/42 "2012-12-26T00:28:21Z")
> [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](#):
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> New ones are probably ok, third world workers don’t have time to masturbate.
10 minute break every 12 hours – plenty of time!
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### Author:  [@choosybeggar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choosybeggar)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055/43 "2012-12-26T06:07:38Z")
> [@Steophan](#):
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> You learned this word, and wanted to find an excuse to use it, didn’t you?
Made it up in a moment of inspiration.
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### Author:  [@choosybeggar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choosybeggar)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055/44 "2012-12-26T06:08:51Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#):
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> Wow saving up for four years? I’d have thought your OP would have been a lot bigger
There’s more where that came from 😉
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### Author:  [@choosybeggar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choosybeggar)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055/45 "2012-12-26T06:11:36Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#):
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> Seems a bit unfair to have over this to IMHO when the OP wanted real answers.
Hey, thanks. I was a little disappointed with the move, too. Admittedly the question was far afield and my posting may have seemed like a drive by after 4 years of inactivity.
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### Author:  [@choosybeggar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choosybeggar)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055/46 "2012-12-26T06:15:57Z")
> [@drachillix](#):
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> I don’t know about you but all my favorite women are very much interested in semen deposits.
Peri-menopause tempers this interest. As I mentioned in the OP, been a while since I’ve been around here.
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### Author:  [@choosybeggar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choosybeggar)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055/47 "2012-12-26T06:19:43Z")
> [@Michael63129](#):
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> I wouldn’t be surprised at all if most computer mice have at least a trace of semen on them, same for even nastier stuff like fecal matter and urine. Not necessarily because people masturbate at their computer, but because you’ll have traces on your hands unless you clean up VERY well, and who hasn’t washed their hands afterwards?
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> After all, keyboards (and mice) are well known to be [filthier than toilets](http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Germs/story?id=4774746&page=1#.UNoHlqzs8eM). :eek:
Oddly enough, I don’t care a fig about urine, germs, and feces (Oh My). Xenospermatophobia, as I’m told by the consulting psychologist, is extraordinary in it’s specificity.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055/48 "2012-12-26T15:07:04Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#):
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> Wow saving up for four years? I’d have thought your OP would have been a lot bigger
Was that an OP in his pocket or was he just happy to see us?
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055/49 "2012-12-26T15:22:34Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> 10 minute break every 12 hours – plenty of time!
…Leaving sperm much too small for the poster/ OPs mouses?
=d&r=
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semen-contamination-of-computer-mice/645055/50 "2012-12-26T17:52:45Z")
I’d say the trace amounts of sperm would be wiped clean by the alcohol content in the Jergens.
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