Q. My boyfriend and I have been in a relationship for over 3 years. We enjoy having sex almost every day. My boyfriend keeps me really happy in bed. However, he really likes blow jobs and just like in XXX sex/porn videos he likes to ejaculate in my mouth. He usually cums on my tongue or into my throat whenever we don't want to have proper intercourse and just enjoy foreplay. Just like in XXX sex movies they show the woman enjoying the taste of the cum in her mouth, I too do that and most of the times swallow his semen. While nothing has happened to me as yet, I was just wondering how safe is it to ingest a man's cum?

Ans. First of all, while ingesting semen may just be one thing, it is not a great move to take inspiration from porn videos and blue films. Not everything shown in porn movies works the way they show. However, coming back to the ingestion of your partner's ejaculation, you'll have to understand that swallowing a healthy person's semen isn't unsafe and vice versa. Let's discuss the different aspect of oral sex and ingestion of semen:

What is Semen Made Up Of?

Semen highly consists of water, almost 80 percent, and the rest of the components of semen are major proteins, amino acids, glucose, fructose, sugars, zinc, calcium, vitamin C etc. Surprisingly, sperm cells make up less than one percent of semen and therefore semen is mostly water, proteins and amino acids. Semen coming from an unhealthy person, however, may consist of STD and STI germs that can be extremely dangerous for you to swallow.

Is Semen Safe to Consume?

As you can see, none of the components mentioned above is harmful to the body and unedible. If you swallow your partner's ejaculate,  your stomach will process it in your body just like normal food. It will travel down the oesophagus and into the stomach and then it will be digested in the same way as food. However, all this will only happen if the semen comes from a healthy person. Otherwise, if the semen consists of STIs and STDs germs, you may catch diseases in no time.

How Does Semen Taste?

The taste of semen depends highly on the quality and varies from person to person. While semen’s alkaline quality gives it a bitter taste, it also contains sugars such as fructose, so sometimes it may taste sweet. Ejaculation from diabetic men may taste sweet. The bottom line is that some may find the taste enjoyable while some may not like it at all.

What Can Go Wrong with Swallowing Semen?

Like we discussed above, there are chances that you may catch STDs and STIs via infected semen. However, in some rare cases, a person may have an allergy to the proteins found in semen also known as seminal plasma hypersensitivity.2. Though this is very uncommon, it is wise to be aware of this allergy. It is very important to get yourself tested of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), or STDs before having sex or at least use condoms even before having oral sex.

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In conclusion, performing oral sex on a man who has an STI like chlamydia, gonorrhoea, HIV, etc. will put you at the risk of the infection if you swallow their semen, even if you later spit it out. It is advisable to get you and your partner tested, or use condoms while having sex and oral sex.

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