It’s probably a good thing that cum doesn’t taste as good as icing… I’d get awfully sore spending so much time on my knees…

Link: ThatGirl

Yeah, I wonder about the taste of semen too. Most people don’t seem to care for it. It doesn’t taste that great (based on kissing partners after fellatio) but a lot of things taste worse. Stout beer. Oysters. Sea urchin eggs. Other people love those so I suppose you learn to enjoy semen the same way, especially if you had positive associations with the experience.

Still, you gotta wonder what the reproductive consequences would be if the flavor was irresistable. That doesn’t appear to be a problem though — most people describe it as bland, bitter, salty, metallic, or even reminicent of chlorine (swimming pools?) or chlorine bleach.

The irony, of course, that from a chemical-analysis standpoint anyway, semen is mostly sugar (fructose) and water. Sperm is less than 1%. Protein and fat content is quite low.

Other components, according to Columbia University’s GoAskAlice.come are – Fructose sugar – Water – Ascorbic acid (a.k.a., vitamin C) – Citric acid – Enzymes – Protein – Phosphate and bicarbonate buffers (bases) – Zinc

Oh yeah, calorie-wise the range goes from three to seven calories per teaspoon. (For reference a teaspoon of white sugar is only 18 calories.) So yeah, pretty sweet on paper maybe but probably not sweet enough to cover up the mineral flavors of zinc, phosphates, citric and ascorbic acid.

A website called DontSpitSwallow has a list of 100 suggestions collected from various sources, mostly readers. Some are pretty good. Others not so hot. Tere’s the list and a reference to the original site at sxxxy.com.

Boiled down into categories the main ideas seem to be:

• What men eat, drink and/or smoke affects the taste. If you want your partner to swallow, adjust your diet appropriately.
• If you move the tip of his penis to the back of your mouth or into your throat, and swallow as he ejaculates, you often won’t taste anything at all.
• There are lots of things you can eat or drink before, during, or after fellatio that mitigate the taste and/or consistency.
• Non-sugar sweeteners like stevia and sucralose, something called "enteric peppermit supplements," and something called Semenex may also make a big difference in the flavor.
• A lot of women seem to imagine that semen isn’t a very big deal either in taste, consistency, or quantity, compared to their partner’s exposure to vaginal juices during cunnilingus. (Proving that bias against tasting yourself goes both ways, I guess.)
• Like oysters, asparagus, hops in beer, or sour cream, semen is an acquired taste. (Probably not what my mom had in mind when she’d tell us to take three girl-scout bites when she introduced a new dish.)