QC FYI: Cum Tastes Gross, “Belongs” In Vaginas

QC FYI: Cum
Even though you may give your lover’s semen a cutesy culinary name such as “love honey,” “nut butter,” or “pearl jam” it’s a popular consensus that semen tastes kinda nasty. Yes, some folks like the taste (there’s even a cum cookbook and loads of advice on how to change the flavor of your fluid), but we’ve found that cum usually tastes like salmon-flavored brie at best and lumpy goat milk at worst.
However, one armchair evolutionary psychologist, Jerry Coyne, has theorized why jism tastes so bad. First, to prove it tastes bad, he got a friend to ask 24 females, “Sperm…would you spit or swallow? In other words, can you abide by or do you hate the taste?” One lonely female commented, “I should be so lucky.” But of the 17 who answered, 11 spit and only 6 swallowed. We imagine that if they asked gay men, the swallow side might have been higher or the answers more colorful (“Oh, I never swallow, I use it as lube” or “Only on weekends and never before midnight, darling.”)

One answer, of course, is that the chemicals necessary to make an ejaculate effective have the side effect of tasting bad. Semen is only about 5% sperm, with the remainder of the fluid consisting of a complex mixture of compounds from the prostate gland and seminal vesicle… Some of these amines have the names putrescine and cadaverine, which give an idea of how they smell… natural selection could presumably add some sugars or good-tasting stuff to semen if it were advantageous to do so. Why does it not do so?

Good question, though we’re curious why Jerry took up the question to begin with. Anyhow, he finally comes up with this brilliant, sensible, and utterly untestable. hypothesis:

Natural selection maintains the repugnant taste of semen so that a man’s sperm will wind up in the appropriate place: the vagina and not the stomach. So long as sperm tastes bad, women will not be tempted to swallow it, but will turn their male partner towards conventional intercourse, which of course is the only act that will produce children. In other words, any male with good-tasting sperm would have fewer offspring than his competitors. A man whose sperm tasted like honey would probably not have any children at all.

So if you do like the taste of jerkwad, then you may yourself be an evolved being (or just a cum-hungry whore). What do you think? Do you like the taste of cum? Do you spit or swallow? For safety reasons or for culinary ones? Does Jerry’s vaginal hypothesis make sense? Or do you find the whole subject (tee-hee) distasteful?

Apr 22, 2009 By paperbagwriter

16 Comments

  • HW says:

    Why not swallow? It’s not like spitting will get rid of the test.

  • NoConflictReally says:

    When I hear or read things like this, it’s a wonder how those on the “evolution” side have beef with those on the “intelligent design” side. Both seem heavily fueled by the notion that some force gives a damn about the survival of any species, such that it would do anything to ensure it.

  • teacherabc123 says:

    It tastes bad because of the things we eat, it’s as simple as that. Smoking, caffeine, reat meat, all make sperm taste bitter. Vegetarians have the best tasting sperm, I know that from experience…. (Just avoid asparagus!!!!!)
    If you want your sperm to taste good, the best thing to do is avoid the above mentioned things, AND eat pineapple.
    I have a recipe for a Spunk Smoothie (not made with sperm!) that really sweetens the taste of cum….

  • Benj says:

    “So if you do like the taste of jerkwad, then you may yourself be an evolved being (or just a cum-hungry whore).”
    HAHAHAHA, that made my morning. Thanks, QC.
    As far as the whole spit/swallow… I’m not a particular fan of getting a load in my mouth at all… then again, my partner isn’t a fan of oral unless it’s foreplay before a good, hard f*ck.

  • Steve says:

    My experience is if you love the guy, nothing tastes better.

  • Jason says:

    I haven’t had a lot of experience with the taste of cum, but my partner’s cum tastes great! I love eating his load whenever I can!

  • matty says:

    Hey, it’s an acquired taste.

  • Jeff says:

    I think Steve is right on the money!

  • Brendan says:

    Best. Picture. Ever. Where did you get it?

  • Ian says:

    It’s an individual thing. I’ve smelt cum that I knew I wouldn’t want to get my mouth near, but with other fellas it was truly sweet to eat, yuM! So I guess it’s a 50%-50% difference between genetics and what you eat that affects the flavor of a man’s cum.

  • SteveDen says:

    I think that cum is the perfect sauce for throbbing man meat with a side of ass-licking, and perhaps some sweaty pecs.
    Some guys’ cum tastes better than others. Flavor spoilers are (as expected): smoking, drugs (any kind), meat, liquor.

  • Enron says:

    I eat a lot of starchy food, so mine taste just like starch, thick and syrupy. So its not offense if I were to explode in your mouth, just add a little granulated sugar and you are on cloud 9.
    Not gonna lie though, I love seeing guys get it in the mouth, especially if its from a big thick cock! Just seeing the white gooey stuff erupt in its pearly bliss while a wet tongue just licks it up while the lips of the receiver engorges around the head and gulps the rest. ahhh!

  • DoorHold says:

    “Natural selection maintains the repugnant taste of semen so that a man’s sperm will wind up in the appropriate place: the vagina and not the stomach.”
    What a moronic conclusion. The taste is subjective, regardless of the compounds found in it. Many common foods have those exact same compounds it them. Personally, after exhaustive taste tests over the course of my lifetime (uh-hem), I have never found an example of the “repugnant” semen he’s talking about.
    How has he managed to completely ignored female sexuality? Semen winds up in the vagina because the female of the species instinctively wants to be f*d, and the male of the species is instinctively compelled to oblige. Even if it tasted like chocolate-covered bacon, f*ing would still be common enough to allow for the perpetuation of the species.
    Some of us WANT to be f*d, HARD. 😉

  • Jarod says:

    I’ve never encountered cum that tastes like salmon flavoured anything. I though it was women that tastes like fish, not men. I can’t stand fish anyway and I love cum.
    The worst cum I’ve tasted was just a little on the bitter side. Otherwise it all pretty much tasted the same.

  • shorty says:

    I love fish – just not when it comes from a vagina,

  • Dino says:

    Personally, I Love to swallow my lover's cum ( by lover, I mean any man I would choose to suck off ).  If I have enough feeling for you to perform such a personal act for & on you, then it's a no brainer that I want the finishing reward. As far as the “reward”; food, beverage, drugs & medications all affect not only the taste but the color and the consistency. My experience has been, taste ranges from – sweet to vinegary, color ranges from – clear to warm vanilla milkshake white, consistency ranges from – watery to lumpy cottage cheesey. So, if your man could use a little “sweetening up”, check out http://www.spermsecrets.com, it has a lot of useful information and so does, “Semen Taste”, when Googled. Enjoy, Dino