# Tingling sensation after ingesting semen - Huh? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 13, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223 "2004-01-13T02:52:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nobody\_Special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nobody\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody_Special)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/21 "2004-01-14T04:43:00Z")
Sounds like the ideal application for the scientific method: 1. Form a hypothesis. In this case, “Do I have magic splooge.” 2. Perform scientific experiment. Receive fellatio from ten test subjects who ingest the semen and see if they experience a “tingly, energetic” sensation. Then receive fallatio from another ten subjects who do not consume the semen to make sure they do not experience a “tingly, energetic” sensation. 3. Write up a scientific paper detailing how you convinced your girlfriend to let you receive hummers from 10 other women. ---
**Author:** ![stochastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@stochastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stochastic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/22 "2004-01-14T05:22:22Z")
> [@Nobody Special](#): > > Sounds like the ideal application for the scientific method: > > 1. Form a hypothesis. In this case, “Do I have magic splooge.” > > 2. Perform scientific experiment. Receive fellatio from ten test subjects who ingest the semen and see if they experience a “tingly, energetic” sensation. Then receive fallatio from another ten subjects who do not consume the semen to make sure they do not experience a “tingly, energetic” sensation. > > 3. Write up a scientific paper detailing how you convinced your girlfriend to let you receive hummers from 10 other women. Hmm…most scientific studies with humans require a larger sample size than that to be valid. Darn, I guess he’ll have to find, oh, maybe 100 volunteers. Also, once you have the paper written, one wonders where to publish: _Science_ or _Penthouse_? ---
**Author:** ![stochastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@stochastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stochastic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/23 "2004-01-14T05:59:56Z")
Joking aside, I’m gonna give a shot-in-the-dark (bad pun, sorry) guess of what could be happening: Semen contains a high concentrations of prostaglandins, a family of hormones, some of which are known to induce smooth muscle contractions. It could well be that your semen is unusually high in prostaglandins or your mate is especially sensitive to the biological action of these hormones. As to why she feels the sensation in the lower back? Well, your bowels are lined with smooth muscle, so maybe what she’s feeling is the tensing and relaxing of her lower intestine in response to the prostaglandin in her system. (I can’t explain why the prostaglandins wouldn’t have this effect elsewhere there’s smooth muscle) At the risk of making a rude suggestion, maybe you could, for the sake of science, convince your girlfriend to take a deposit from the other end of the alimentary canal and see if the sensation is more pronounced. -stochastic, not an M.D., but a Ph.D. who knows just enough to be dangerous ---
**Author:** ![stochastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@stochastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stochastic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/24 "2004-01-14T06:07:19Z")
Joking aside, I’m gonna give a shot-in-the-dark (bad pun, sorry) guess of what could be happening: Semen contains a high concentrations of prostaglandins, a family of hormones, some of which are known to induce smooth muscle contractions. It could well be that your semen is unusually high in prostaglandins or your mate is especially sensitive to the biological action of these hormones. As to why she feels the sensation in the lower back? Well, your bowels are lined with smooth muscle, so maybe what she’s feeling is the tensing and relaxing of her lower intestine in response to the prostaglandin in her system. (I can’t explain why the prostaglandins wouldn’t have this effect elsewhere there’s smooth muscle) At the risk of making a rude suggestion, maybe you could, for the sake of science, convince your girlfriend to take a deposit from the other end of the alimentary canal and see if the sensation is more pronounced. -stochastic, not an M.D., but a Ph.D. who knows just enough to be dangerous ---
**Author:** ![pcroughn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@pcroughn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pcroughn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/25 "2004-01-14T15:15:00Z")
If it’ll help, she can swallow my semen and see what happens. (in the name of science, of course) Additionally, you can test your ‘spooge’. Can it pull a rabbit out of a hat? Can it saw your girlfriend in half? Does it ever transform its cane into a bouquet of flowers? (sorry, but I have the mind of a seventh grader) And, Gremlyn, 'swallow a lot of it"? … **You go girl!!!** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/26 "2004-01-14T15:44:12Z")
Yah, it seems funny now, but when she starts shooting 1920s style death rays from her eyes, THEN you’ll be sorry … ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/27 "2004-01-14T15:57:41Z")
I think we need to address the real issue here, which is: > [@](#): > > _ **Catalyst** said:_ > The title pretty much sums it up. My girlfriend says that within five to fifteen minutes of ingesting my semen, she gets what she describes as a “tingly, energetic” sensation concentrated in her lower back. Needless to say, we’re fairly baffled. Assuming I don’t have magic spooge, what’s going on here? > [@](#): > > _ **Catalyst** meant:_ > Yah! I’m getting loads of regular oral sex. Neener neener neener. Bastard. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/28 "2004-01-14T16:58:33Z")
> [@](#): > > “tingly, energetic” sensation That’s how you can tell it’s working. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/29 "2004-01-14T20:17:13Z")
**Catalyst** , about the sig, yes, it’s longer than standard. However, the sig is the only part of your post that you can edit. Your current sig appears on all past sigs. If you go to User cp, you can change your sig, and all past posts carrying your sig will match the new one. At least that’s the way it worked last week. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/30 "2004-01-14T23:38:49Z")
> [@stochastic](#): > > At the risk of making a rude suggestion, maybe you could, for the sake of science, convince your girlfriend to take a deposit from the other end of the alimentary canal and see if the sensation is more pronounced. Man, I’m gonna have to try that one on my wife some time. ---
**Author:** ![JRootabega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@JRootabega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRootabega)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/31 "2004-01-15T00:02:52Z")
Maybe it gets her off in a subtle way? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/32 "2004-01-15T01:42:43Z")
> [@stochastic](#): > > At the risk of making a rude suggestion, maybe you could, for the sake of science, convince your girlfriend to take a deposit from the other end of the alimentary canal and see if the sensation is more pronounced. So, a tingling sensation created by oral sex leads to a theory which must be tested via anal sex. This is a truly brilliant bit of Guy Logic. Sir, I salute you! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![stochastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@stochastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stochastic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/33 "2004-01-15T07:00:57Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > So, a tingling sensation created by oral sex leads to a theory which must be tested via anal sex. This is a truly brilliant bit of Guy Logic. Sir, I salute you! > :smack: The science teacher in me must correct you here. This is just a **hypothesis** , not a **theory** which is only formulated after a hypothesis has undergone thorough testing. And, if he’s lucky, he’ll get many more opportunities to test the origin of this phenomenon through the circumstances described in the OP…at least up until he marries her 😉 Hopefully, you realize that my backassward bit of Guy Logic was a crappy attempt at potty humor and not a genuine suggestion that this is where the thrust of his probing into this phenomenon should end up. This would truly involve a waste of resources and I don’t think it would sit well with his girlfriend. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rainbowthief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@Rainbowthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rainbowthief)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/34 "2004-01-15T07:27:43Z")
> [@Catalyst](#): > > Could it perhaps be the result of a semen allergy or something along those lines? You don’t want to put that idea in her head. ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223/35 "2004-01-15T11:32:10Z")
> [@Rainbowthief](#): > > You don’t want to put that idea in her head. If it were indeed an allergic response, it’d be the most pleasant allergic response I’ve ever heard of. Psst, **Mangetout** : neener neener! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tingling-sensation-after-ingesting-semen-huh/224223.md?page=1)