Sperm (General; Miscellaneous)

[Mighty_Emperor]

There is a US patent designed to improve the taste of sperm.

This invention regards a dietary supplement formulation that significantly improves the taste of the male ejaculate.

While certain ingredients have previously been believed in "urban-myth" fashion to improve semen taste, there has never been a precedent for any formulation developed or marketed for this purpose. Further these urban myths, while containing a grain of truth, required that a full year of investigation and research and development, and almost an additional year of market testing be conducted prior to successfully establishing the most effective formulation and concentration of specific ingredients to produce the optimal results ultimately achieved.

They don't go into any details on the experiments but have they really been sitting around feeding guys on specific foods and then tasting their 'product'?

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Picked up via 'Funny Old World' in Private Eye.

Emps

 

[Anonymous]

Apparently, and this what i've heard....coffee and garlic impair the taste. Milk, fruit, even cinnamon improve it.

I suppose it works on the same principle as breast milk. Eating garlic while feeding a baby can give it stomach aches, strawberries a rash .

 

[Anonymous]

Apparently, and this what i've heard....coffee and garlic impair the taste. Milk, fruit, even cinnamon improve it.

You must read some interesting magazines

 

[Bilderberger]

I suppose it works on the same principle as breast milk. Eating garlic while feeding a baby can give it stomach aches, strawberries a rash .

And as every alcoholic mother knows (or should I say makes up the excuse) a nip of brandy prior to breast feeding sends their little darling off to sleep without a problem. Some babies need 10 seperate feedings in one evening!

 

[Yithian]

Female friends have said that smokers' 'Special Sauce' tastes different but i couldn't claim to know.

 

[Bilderberger]

Well I am currently only smoking intermittently - so if anyone would like to offer their services - I am sure we could arrange some sort of scientific experiement to clear this matter up.

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

[Jerry_B]

Female friends have said that smokers' 'Special Sauce' tastes different but i couldn't claim to know.

IMHO, this also applies to women smokers and their 'taste'. As for the taste of sperm, as Blueswidow points out, certain things are said to make it taste better. I have it on good authority that pineapple and cinnamon are both beneficial.

Can't believe I'm sat here on a Thursday afternoon discussing such things on a message board with a bunch of strangers... :spinning

 

[Timble2]

Just wondering...

The patent gives the formulation, how will they find out if anyone is pirating the recipe and making it up for their own use?

 

[OneWingedBird]

I can't wait to read about the clinical trials of this one...

 

[Anome]

Oddly enough, Karl Kruzelnicki was discussing this on his radio programme this week.

A caller started asking about the pH balance of semen, as she was concerned about dental decay. (Turns out it's typically about 7.8 to 8.3, but it varies with diet.)

That got them started talking about taste, and she confirmed the cinnamon, and a number of other things as having a pleasing effect. (She claimed a turn around time of about 30 mins? May have to go to the .RAM to check that.) She hadn't tried the asparagus, as her SO didn't like it (no surprise there). Dr Karl was interested because of the known effect it has on urine odour. (And probably taste, although he denies he actually got around to drinking it. He was trying to build up to it at one point as part of an experiment.)

There was a discussion on this in a usenet group a couple of years ago. There was a product called Semenex, I think. Is that the same one?

(I should go check the link, shouldn't I?)

 

[Yithian]

Golden Hunny

Dr Karl was interested because of the known effect it has on urine odour. (And probably taste, although he denies he actually got around to drinking it. He was trying to build up to it at one point as part of an experiment.)

Sorry to bog the tone right down but this reminds me of that most well-attested to link between food and bodily products: Sugar Puffs make your urine smell just like, well, sugar puffs. Whether it be 5 mins or 5 hours later i assure you the next trip to the bathroom reminds you what you had in the bowl with the milk - I trust everyone realises this!

 

[Anonymous]

Apparently curry makes sperm taste bitter - or so I'm told - by other people who I don't know very well.

 

[KeyserXSoze]

http://www.nature.com/nsu/031208/031208-11.html

Sperm from stem cells fertilize egg
Lab-grown reproductive cells could lead to fertility treatments.
11 December 2003
HELEN R. PILCHER

Human sperm could one day be grown in the lab.
Mouse sperm grown from stem cells have successfully fertilized eggs. Laboratory-grown human sperm could follow.

The achievement follows the production of fertile eggs from stem cells earlier this year. It could lead to alternative ways to help infertile couples conceive by in vitro fertilization. Such cells could, for instance, help parents who have genetic defects to give birth to normal children.

The fertile sperm were created by George Daley of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues. "They look like normal sperm but without a tail," he says.

The researchers used stem cells derived from male mouse embryos and grew them into hollow balls, rather like an early embryo. They then teased out sperm-like cells and injected them into unfertilized eggs. One in five of the resulting embryos began to develop normally1.

"It's encouraging that you can make germ cells like this," says Azim Surani of the University of Cambridge, UK, who studies sex-cell development. But the method's low success rate may indicate a problem, he warns.

Normally, as sperm and eggs develop, their genetic material is reprogrammed. This switches on the correct genes so that fertilization can proceed. This process may have gone awry in the mouse sperm, Surani speculates - similar problems are thought to occur during animal cloning.

Whether the embryos would have produced live births is not known, as Daley's team halted the experiment five days after fertilization. If reprogramming were affected, the embryos may have aborted later, says Daley, who is now performing longer-term tests.

Human sperm will be more difficult to make than mouse sperm. Reprogramming problems aside, researchers will first need to make their stem cells using therapeutic cloning. Here, DNA from an adult cell is inserted into an egg emptied of its DNA; stem cells are isolated from the resulting early embryo. Such stem cells would then be cultured to form sperm.

Using adult genetic material is risky, warns Hans Schöler of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Earlier this year, Schöler was the first to produce lab-grown eggs2. "The DNA in our body is of low quality," he says. Any disease-causing mutation that occurred during ageing would be passed on to the offspring.

Earlier this year, Japanese researchers were the first to manufacture sperm in the laboratory3. Daley's group is the first to show that such sperm are fertile.

Whatever next!

 

[Mythopoeika]

Growing babies outside a human body, in an artificial womb is next. In the future, having a baby will be pain-free.

 

[Anonymous]

It already is for - about 50% of the population

 

[Anonymous]

Not me - I still have the scars on my hand from my Wiff's fingernails.

How inconsiderate.

 

[lordborealmark2]

Growing babies outside a human body, in an artificial womb is next. In the future, having a baby will be pain-free.

And not long after we'll have the Feelies and Soma too...

 

[ramonmercado]

Japanese men's sperm comes in 2 types
27 Sep 2004

Japanese men's sperm concentration changes seasonally and is categorized in two types according to the season when it becomes more concentrated, research jointly conducted by two universities revealed.

According to Tokushima University School of Medicine Prof. Yutaka Nakabori and St. Marianna University School of Medicine Prof. Teruaki Iwamoto, further research may produce results that could be utilized in fertilization treatment.

In their research, they collected sperm from a total of 764 men from Sapporo, Kanazawa, Osaka and Fukuoka, whose wives were pregnant, from 1999 to 2002. They analyzed the collected sperm monthly and checked its DNA.

They found that the men could be categorized in two types according to the characteristics of the DNA structure of the Y chromosome, which is unique to men--those who have a higher concentration of spermatozoa in their semen between February and July, and those in which this phenomenon occurs from July to December. CONTINUES........

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=14074

 

[rynner2]

watching women tasting their partner's sperm sample - not on a porn channel, but on the BBC! :shock:

whatever is the world coming to?

(er, did i really say coming? )

 

[emmbob]

watching women tasting their partner's sperm sample - not on a porn channel, but on the BBC! :shock:

whatever is the world coming to?

(er, did i really say coming? )

I watched that too! It wasn't so much the fact that it was sperm, but that it was cold sperm.

And Vic, or should I say Jim, wasn't in it nearly enough.

 

[rynner2]

It wasn't so much the fact that it was sperm, but that it was cold sperm.

are you sure it was cold?

still, some things can taste good hot or cold, like, er...
(thinks furiously)




...coffee!

 

[emmbob]

um. hrmm. I don't know if it was cold or... warm. But I assumed cold. Because it was in a tube and had to be taken down the hall, so I think it would have ...cooled down.

I'm trying not to sound like I know anything about this kind of thing. Because I don't.

The girl who took the second sip of the sperm made me laugh out loud, as did the look on the face of the doctor who wanted to wrap a sensor round Jim Moir's willybits as he told Jim that he would not be allowed to do it himself.

 

[Cyclops]

Oh, lovely. Tadpoles in aspic. Yum.

 

[cycleboy2]

‘Strong sperm’ could impregnate women in swimming pools, child protection chief says'

Frankly, there are loads of places on this forum this story from Indonesia could go, but for me it's a definite WTF!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...omen-indonesia-child-protection-a9356551.html

 

[Tribble]

‘Strong sperm’ could impregnate women in swimming pools, child protection chief says'

Frankly, there are loads of places on this forum this story from Indonesia could go, but for me it's a definite WTF!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...omen-indonesia-child-protection-a9356551.html

Been a long time since I've seen that urban legend in the wild...

 

[Mythopoeika]

Indonesia, eh. It sounds like a covert plan to stop women going for a swim.

 

[kamalktk]

‘Strong sperm’ could impregnate women in swimming pools, child protection chief says'

Frankly, there are loads of places on this forum this story from Indonesia could go, but for me it's a definite WTF!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...omen-indonesia-child-protection-a9356551.html

I don't live in Indonesia and havent visited in years, the women are safe.

 

[uair01]

Another article on declining sperm quality:

New sperm meta-analysis. Big takeaways:
• Sperm reduction is not localized, happening globally
• 50% reduction in avg sperm count since 1973
• Following this trend, the average man will not be able to have children unassisted by 2050

https://academic.oup.com/humupd/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humupd/dmac035/6824414?login=false

But debunked?

Swan’s work has been consistently debunked multiple times. The past methodological weaknesses, inconsistencies, cherry-picking are just being repackaged here.

https://reason.com/2021/06/08/spermageddon-has-been-canceled-says-new-study/

Twitter thread here:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1598091125658914819

 

[kesavaross]

Another article on declining sperm quality:

New sperm meta-analysis. Big takeaways:
• Sperm reduction is not localized, happening globally
• 50% reduction in avg sperm count since 1973
• Following this trend, the average man will not be able to have children unassisted by 2050

Unassisted?

 

[Ascalon]

Here's an important classification update, relevant to this thread...