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Sperm Can Act As Natural Superfood
A study has found that certain females consume male ejaculate and sperm as if they were food, using the nutrients to fuel their own bodies as well as their eggs.
“If males have their sperm consumed, rather than used for egg fertilization, they will lose that reproductive opportunity. Therefore, it is in the male’s best interests to try to ensure at least some of his sperm reaches the female’s eggs,” lead author Benjamin Wegener, a researcher at Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences, told Discovery News.
Wegener said that ejaculate consumption is well documented among numerous species. Humans are included in that group, but the behavior is not a standard part of our reproductive process.
According to Columbia Health, human male ejaculate contains fructose sugar, water, ascorbic acid (aka Vitamin C), citric acid, enzymes, protein, zinc and more. It reads like the ingredients list of a protein-infused sports drink.
Sperm consumption — as opposed to just ejaculate swallowing — in the animal kingdom “is far less common,” according to Wegener.
Species that exhibit this include carrion flies, picture wing flies, a strange marine invertebrate known as Spadella cephaloptera, a type of leech, a marine nudibranch and the southern bottletail squid Sepiadarium austrinum.
Humans again may swallow sperm, but it’s not standard behavior during reproduction.
It appears to happen a lot among squid, the focus of the new study. Wegener and his team discovered the behavior and tracked how the nutrients were utilized after consumption. It is the first time that the phenomenon has been observed in a female with external fertilization.
“This is an important distinction as even if the female consumes some of the ejaculate in those internal fertilizers, at least some of the sperm remains inside in the reproductive tract,” he said.
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Zambian Gay
December 27, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Dunderheads now thinking of drinking sperm!!
How can you discuss oral sex when you idyots have no clue about human sexual behaviour
mujosah
December 27, 2014 at 6:38 pm
I need to open katemba so that
Ba guy ngaya ponyola muka bottle
Nashita.elo ba UPND baisa sende
Bapela boss wabo satanist,ati
Nani ishina nalaba?
captain
December 28, 2014 at 7:20 am
@mujosah, ulimwana wambwa, sorry let me exclude parents, ulimbwa chikala.
I really feel sorry for you, you must be some drug addict street kid. Were you raised by your parents, probably never met them at all. Who the f*ck raised you???????????????
Oracle
December 29, 2014 at 8:48 am
How can you say such to someone not related to the subject. You are the most intelligent fool. Please remove UPND and President HH from your rotten thinking. Zambia is currently be ruled by UPND.
Oracle
MCCM
December 27, 2014 at 6:51 pm
God help us.Sinful world
monk
December 27, 2014 at 7:25 pm
the article is not making sense. ukula lasa ama live mu kanwa
kakolwe
December 27, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Believing the reporter to think that semem and sperm are one & the same word! Apart from that, this is solely talking about externally fertilising animals & hoping to sensationalise it.
On short, untested, unreseached nonsense.
Denkete
December 27, 2014 at 8:42 pm
Im one person with high level of comprehension when im reading something. But in this article I have not grasped the writer’s intention. Ba author, cimocine no muntu uwaya ku toilet ayanyakofye icisushi. tissue no use.
webster
December 28, 2014 at 12:50 am
too bad
W3B§T3R
December 28, 2014 at 12:52 am
sinfull world
Gay country
December 28, 2014 at 8:53 am
It is food only if a man drink another mans sperm!! Women have another use for sperm.
cray
December 28, 2014 at 10:49 am
interesting meanz we could make a way for women to get pregnant by drinking sperm
Judge Joe Bidden
December 28, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Nonsense article… e.g “If males have their sperm consumed, rather than used for egg fertilization, they will lose that reproductive opportunity. Therefore, it is in the male’s best interests to try to ensure at least some of his sperm reaches the female’s eggs”
Human sex indulgence is in twofold a. Procreation and b. Pleasure, if a couple is just having pleasure why would his sperm ‘has to reach the female eggs’? Isnt what they want to avoid, hence use of contraception?
Judge Joe Bidden
December 28, 2014 at 1:00 pm
“Humans again may swallow sperm, but it’s not standard behavior during reproduction”
Who on earth would expect pregnancy from oral consumption of semen(sperm)? Even animals know where sexual organs are located for their species procreation – thats just fundamentally standard in almost all species.
Charity
December 28, 2014 at 3:42 pm
No sense article. Mailo ukabuka ati amafi ya suma uku lya. Stupid.
Ka shimikile eyi nkonko. Ala!!
kick
December 29, 2014 at 1:29 pm
Just here to read comments. Kkkkkkkkkkk!
ipac
December 29, 2014 at 1:59 pm
Sperm for food? Ummm! Let me see!!!
Maybe for satanism use!
The devil wants u to start eating each other!
Crap!
God forgive us.
KARABASSIS
December 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Nimaloza Nowander The Bible Says “Beware For The Devil Your Enermy Is Rowling Like An Angry Lion Looking For Someone To Devour..”I Nw Believe Bible Does Not Lie, Lesa Twafweni..Twalomba.
lukundo
December 29, 2014 at 3:56 pm
end of the world even the animals cant eat ifwa bupuba