Talk:Semen
| This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Semen article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
| Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4Auto-archiving period: 3 months  |
 | Wikipedia is not censored. Images or details contained within this article may be graphic or otherwise objectionable to some readers, to ensure a quality article and complete coverage of its subject matter. For more information, please refer to Wikipedia's content disclaimer regarding potentially objectionable content and options for not seeing an image. |
 | Spermophagia was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 16 October 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Semen. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here. |
| Medical uses for human semen was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 16 August 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Semen. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here. |
 | This  level-4 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semi-protected edit request on 24 January 2023
edit | This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Change line: Cum swapping, in which a woman passes semen from her mouth into that of another woman.
To: Cum swapping, in which a person passes semen from their mouth into another persons.
REASON: the nature of the sex act is not gendered. I would leave a source, but honeslty I feel this is covererd by common knowlegde. Ryvanix (talk) 23:21, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Not done: needs a WP:Reliable source. Crossroads -talk- 23:32, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Snowballing
editIn heterosexual couples, a woman who has performed fellatio may afterwards return the semen to her partner's mouth.
A man who receives either his own or another man's semen into his mouth, albeit from a woman's, may self-identify as straight, but the behaviour is not one that would accord with heterosexual norms. I would recommend deleting the phrase In heterosexual couples, and letting the sentence continue thus: A woman who has performed fellatio may afterwards return the semen to her partner's mouth Nuttyskin (talk) 14:03, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
- "a person" would be better 41.42.83.31 (talk) 13:30, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
Is semen cum
editMy friend here thinks that cum is undeveloped sperm cells 2A02:A449:AD1F:1:33BC:805D:AF1D:BDA6 (talk) 22:00, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Your friend ponders the deep questions, send him over here
Dudanotak (talk) 12:52, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Confusion in Health ---> Benefits to females
edit"Females may benefit from absorbing seminal fluid." This section begins normally enough, because the other sections have an implication that we're talking about humans. However, it goes on to say "Such benefits include male insects transferring nutrients to females via their ejaculate; in both humans and bovines, the fluid has antiviral and antibacterial properties; and useful bacteria such as Lactobacillus have been detected in fluid transferred from birds and mammals." Dudanotak (talk) 20:26, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Source?
edit"Dew was once thought to be a sort of rain that fertilized the earth and, in time, became a metaphor for semen. The Bible employs the term "dew" in this sense in such verses as Song of Solomon 5:2 and Psalm 110:3, declaring, in the latter verse, for example, that the people should follow only a king who was virile enough to be full of the "dew" of youth."
Huh? I can't find any commentaries or anything suggesting that this refers to semen, and for semen to be another term for semen makes no sense in both of these verses. — I'ma editor2022 (🗣️💬 |📖📚) 02:04, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- Although the suggestion that the king is full of semen of the youth is an interesting one, it looks to be some OR which I have removed. Semen is not mentioned in Matthew Henry's Commentary of the verses. Pabsoluterince (talk) 11:26, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Benefits to Females should be Benefits to Individuals
editits misleading and pointless to have it be gendered 41.42.83.31 (talk) 13:29, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
- Although the content in question could probably be improved, the source cited seems to be speaking about females specifically. The sexes are not interchangeable in biology. Crossroads -talk- 21:33, 15 November 2024 (UTC)