# Spit or Swallow? A followup poll TMI? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 29, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070 "2003-03-29T20:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/241 "2003-04-08T02:12:10Z")
Mmk, I’ve read this thread for a while now, and damn me, but I’m adding. My boyfriend was pleasantly suprised to find out I swallow, and enjoy it (mostly just feeling him cum, but the taste isn’t all bad either) and anyone else I know who asks (hey, I’m in high school, it comes up in conversation and I’m frighteningly honest…eep…) finds out, and the guys tend to get jealous. My ex, on the other hand, tasted kinda funky, and _I_ was pleasantly suprised when I found out my current guy tastes just fine. On the sad side, I have a very small mouth, so I can’t get much of him in my mouth. Any … tips? (dang I wish I could have thought of a better word) ---
**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:** [April 8, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/242 "2003-04-08T02:54:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynne\_kilii \* > On the sad side, I have a very small mouth, so I can’t get much of him in my mouth. Any … tips? Sure. Use your hand(s) as an extension of your mouth. Guys can’t tell the diff, and why would they care anyway? Or find a guy with smaller, unh…feet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/243 "2003-04-08T05:51:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynne\_kilii \* > \*\*On the sad side, I have a very small mouth, so I can’t get much of him in my mouth. Any … tips? (dang I wish I could have thought of a better word) \*\* Just one: don’t worry. It’s the head that’s most sensitive anyway. Work with your lips and tongue and you’re a winner. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/244 "2003-04-08T11:06:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynne\_kilii \* > \*\*My boyfriend was pleasantly suprised to find out I swallow, and enjoy it (mostly just feeling him cum, but the taste isn’t all bad either) and anyone else I know who asks (hey, I’m in high school, it comes up in conversation and I’m frighteningly honest…eep…) finds out, and the guys tend to get jealous. \*\* I bet they do! 🙂 So, how many of them have said to you, “Hey, when you get tired of him,…”? And, yeah, I’d have to agree with both **Musicat** and **Priceguy**. It doesn’t sound like a real problem, to me. Just a problem of perception. Deepthroating isn’t required, or even necessarily all that different. It’s the tongue and lips that get the job done. I do disagree that guys can’t tell the difference between lips and hands, though. At least, I could, with the women I’ve experienced. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/245 "2003-04-08T11:10:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Davebear \* > \*\*I do disagree that guys can’t tell the difference between lips and hands, though. At least, I could, with the women I’ve experienced. \*\* So… hard… not… to… hi-jack… So, am I the only guy who prefers getting hands-free oral sex, ie stimulation with mouth only? ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/246 "2003-04-08T13:06:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Priceguy \* > \*\*So, am I the only guy who prefers getting hands-free oral sex, ie stimulation with mouth only? \*\* Nope. A lot of porn shows hands-free oral, too. So, it must be a reasonably common desire. On the other…umm…hand…I suspect that it’s probably considerably more difficult for the ladies performing the act. So, I don’t expect it. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/247 "2003-04-08T14:56:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spit \* > \*\*I have been on the receiving end, and I can say that it was interesting. > > Not enough for a non-pierced person to run out and get one, but you will notice a subtle difference with a person who has one. > > Of course, it all comes down to how good they are at it in the first place. \*\* is that a subtle difference good or bad? or is it like say you have altoids in your mouth and then go down and have oral and then blow and its cool… tingly…is it like that… like cold metal feeling? ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/248 "2003-04-08T16:32:23Z")
It was a ‘good’ feeling. However, not enough for someone to run out and get a stud just for that purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/249 "2003-04-08T21:53:19Z")
Well, I have read this entire thread in one sitting. I didn’t get much work done today! I’ve always been a swallower. It never occurred to me to spit it out. Guys all taste a little different to me, depending on their diet, but none have ever grossed me out. I like something to drink after, too. (A Bud Light, please, Dave Bear?) There is a residual taste. My WAG is that acidic drinks like OJ act against the base of the cum. But that could be totally off. Any docs know the acidic content of jizz? I want to comment on the power play. I always feel like I am in power over him! I control when he cums, I control the speed , the stroke, the amount of teasing. He’s not dominating me! But don’t grab my head, or I will stop, as it makes me feel panicky. And a comment on the hands on theory: if you don’t hold on to it, it could slip out, and teeth rake it. I like to have firm control over it. And as for the taste of me on him—I love to go down on him after he has blown my mind with intercourse…he loves to finish in my mouth. And I think I taste pretty good! (But I have gone down on some women, too.) Damn, where is that man o’mine??? ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/250 "2003-04-08T21:56:15Z")
So help me, I can’t believe I’m adding here. I neither spit nor swallow. I have a very very powerful gag reflex, and so oral sex is a no-go in the marriage. (How powerful, you ask? When I had my wisdom tooth yanked, the doctor tried to put a piece of gauze under the tooth to catch any fragments that might come off - a small piece of gauze. I almost threw up because of the gag reflex.) Not to mention that I despise oral sex. I do not care for giving it (although I sometimes find a way to be creative, if I’m feeling extra generous), but my bigger gripe is that I really really hate receiving it. I guess my husband likes giving it, since I frequently have to stop him because it just totally turns me off. I know I’m in quite the minority here… ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/251 "2003-04-08T22:17:10Z")
**Sapphire Wolf** , you wouldn’t happen to be married to a friend of mine in Richmond? Man, do I hear about that, and no offense but his friends probably do too. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/252 "2003-04-08T22:24:33Z")
Errr…hear about what, **flight**? And no, I’m not married to someone from Richmond. Not unless it’s moved to Oregon in the last thirty four years and I never heard about it. ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/253 "2003-04-08T22:52:09Z")
In a related development, my girlfriend got braces about 3 weeks ago. I ain’t goin’ there. ---
**Author:** ![Margo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Margo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Margo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/254 "2003-04-08T23:40:52Z")
Ah…hence the origin of your username… bwahhhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhh Margo ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/255 "2003-04-09T00:34:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dolores Claiborne \* > **Well, I have read this entire thread in one sitting. I didn’t get much work done today!** 😃 It _does_ hold one’s attention, doesn’t it? _Pours a Bud Light for the lady. Do you pefer a big head on it?_ > [@](#): > > \*\*I want to comment on the power play. I always feel like I am in power over him! I control when he cums, I control the speed , the stroke, the amount of teasing. He’s not dominating me! \*\* Hey, in my book, a woman who gives head AND chose Dolores Claiborne as her namesake can do just about anything she wants! You want to be in control? You got it! 😉 > [@](#): > > **But don’t grab my head, or I will stop, as it makes me feel panicky.** I’ve heard that one, before. Any idea _why_ it makes you panicky? > [@](#): > > **And as for the taste of me on him—I love to go down on him after he has blown my mind with intercourse…he loves to finish in my mouth. And I think I taste pretty good! (But I have gone down on some women, too.)** Gotta love a woman who can match me for wanton lust. I find that _very_ sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/256 "2003-04-09T00:38:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sapphire Wolf \* > **So help me, I can’t believe I’m adding here.** Well, we’re glad you did. > [@](#): > > **Not to mention that I despise oral sex. I do not care for giving it (although I sometimes find a way to be creative, if I’m feeling extra generous), …** Care to share a creative idea, or two, in the interest of fighting ignorance (and dull sex lives)? I suspect some of the folks reading, but not posting to, this thread would appreciate it. > [@](#): > > \*\*…but my bigger gripe is that I really really hate receiving it. I guess my husband likes giving it, since I frequently have to stop him because it just totally turns me off. \*\* What is it about it that turns you off, I you don’t mind me asking? ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/257 "2003-04-09T00:42:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by //\etalhea|) \* > \*\*In a related development, my girlfriend got braces about 3 weeks ago. > > I ain’t goin’ there. \*\* Yeah, but are you cumming, there? Or, are we talking “No head for the Metal man”? (Sorry. It’s **Margo** ’s fault.) ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/258 "2003-04-09T01:22:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Davebear \* > Well, we’re glad you did. Why thank you. I think. In the meantime, I’d like an unsweetened iced tea, no lemon. 😃 > [@](#): > > Care to share a creative idea, or two, in the interest of fighting ignorance (and dull sex lives)? I suspect some of the folks reading, but not posting to, this thread would appreciate it. :o Ermmm…I’ll be honest. For me, it’s creative. For anyone else, it’d warrant an eye roll or five (along with a, “You call THAT creative?”). It’s nothing mind blowing. So, if it’s all the same, I’ll plead the Fifth. > [@](#): > > What is it about it that turns you off, I you don’t mind me asking? I’m not sure. It just…it doesn’t do anything for me except incite a small bit of panic and a larger amount of annoyance. And it really kills the mood for me. I’d sooner watch a cow chew a cud. Honestly. ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/259 "2003-04-09T04:41:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Margo \* > \*\*Ah…hence the origin of your username… > > bwahhhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhh > Margo \*\* I really hate to admit it, but I did not see that one coming. Guess it’s just been my name for sooo long. And No, there is no head for the Metal Man. I tried, I really did (and she always swallows btw). Even tho she pulls her teeth back as much as possible, there’s a lot of loose skin on a penis, and some of it inevitably pushes up against her teeth and touches metal. It’s in general just an uncomfortable sensation, and once or twice there was a full-fledged ouchie! I have a zero-tolerance policy on pain in the genital region. Plus, we’re in a big argument because I thought she was absolutely beautiful with an overbite. That surely argument won’t help me get head. But that’s a whole other thread that I’ll never start. ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070/260 "2003-04-09T04:43:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by //\etalhea|) \* > \*\*I have a zero-tolerance policy on pain in the genital region. > \*\* On review, I think I’m going to make that my new sig line! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spit-or-swallow-a-followup-poll-tmi/165070.md?page=14)