Sex Come
posted by on May 29 at 9:44 AM
It seems that some women are addicted to the stuff.
The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful-and potentially addictive-mood-altering chemicals.Study author Gordon G. Gallup, Ph.D., a psychologist at the State University of New York in Albany, also found that women who routinely had intercourse without condoms became increasingly depressed as more time elapsed since their last sexual encounter. There was no such correlation for women whose partners regularly used condoms.
Man, I could become the new Eli Lilly!
A whole new market for Stephen Colbert's Formula 401 has opened up.
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Or maybe women who don't use condoms regularly are in healthy and secure relationships and are more likely to have a partner they trust. Did the study take that into account?
@3 - good point.
@3 - from the article: "Gallup controlled for variables including method of contraception, frequency of sexual intercourse, as well as the women's perception of their relationship."
Anyway, this is old news - it's from 2002. It'd be more convincing if another study had confirmed it since. But if women become convinced my naughty bits hold the cure to their depression, I don't feel particularly inclined to convince them otherwise.
So should we be looking for semen capsules, available in the local supermarket, next to the St. John's Wort?
I'm betting that the results would be different among gay men.
And Dan, you've lost. It's cum. Don't worry. It happens. Languages change, and I know that sometimes, it's hard to take. I still get mad when I see Myanmar on a map instead of Burma, or when someone says they speak Farsi instead of Persian, but those are a couple of linguistic battles that I'm on the losing side of. Just give in.
Ha! My jizz is better than chocolate, baby!
@7
I would guess that "Cum" is a NSFW headline (isn't it? Sort of?), whereas "Come" clearly is not, and once you start reading the article, well one gets the gist.
Read this to my wife. Her response: "Is this The Onion?"
@9 No, this is one of Dan's hobby horses.
I have always refused to use "cum." I think it's vulgar--yes, I think something's vulgar--and unnecessary. Other words with dual meanings, some sexual, do not have alternate spellings. We say, "My brother Dick is a total dick about the size of his dick." We don't spell "dick" with "dik" or "dikk" when it means, well, dick.
"Cum" is a letters-to-Penthouse affectation. I've never signed off on it.
The more I read this the more confused I get.
Paragraph two seems to somewhat contradicts paragraph 1.
Paragraph 1: "women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms"
Paragraph 2: "women who routinely had intercourse without condoms became increasingly depressed as more time elapsed since their last sexual encounter."
How interesting that you find "Cum" to be so vulgar, Dan- I've always found the opposite to be true; whenever I see someone use the word "Come" for semen, I always get a feeling the word has been sterilized and packaged for the conservative set. "Cum" on the other hand, is equated with an uncensored sexuality- leaving no doubt in my mind which spelling should be preferred.
Then again, as a teen my sexual bible was Penthouse, so take it all with a grain of salt.
@ elswinger, 13 - Withdrawl. They need their fix.
Given the state of health care and prescription drug benefits in this country -- especially when it comes to mental disorders -- I'd just like to offer my humble services as Universal Anti-Depressant Dispenser to any of the world's fine young ladies currently feeling A Bit Blue, Under the Weather, Sad, Mopey, Down, or experiencing a Vague Malaise. Over-18s only, please, and no biters. My come is FDA-approved and available Over The Counter, Under the Table or On the Belly; possible side-effects may include shortness of breath, flop sweats, headache, difficulty swallowing, mild-to-severe sore throat, sinus infection, Irritable Gag-Reflex Syndrome, Spitter's Cough, Gurgler's Breath and immediate drowsiness.
No wait, that last one is mine.
Woman who worry about protection are moer likely to be the types to worry in general.
C'mon, psychologists, think outside of the damn box! The rest of the world does exist, after all!
@ 12
Irony of ironies. You've always found the Penthouse spelling ribald compared with "come?" I equate the latter, "softer" spelling with the watered down "sex" as a term for pussy in women's erotica books.
"He slowly entered the flower of her sex."
There, now doesn't that make you feel nauseous? True vulgarity.
Gomez, it seems like "women are physically addicted to semen and suffer withdrawal from it" would fit into "thinking outside of the box."
This study begs for a double blind randomized controlled follow up. Necessary equiment: female participants; turkey baster; semen; faux-semen (for control group); birth control; psychiatric measure.
@ 19
If the double-blind randomized follow-up is administered orally, could a Medication Donor with a vasectomy be used as the control? Is there any evidence in the literature to suggest that it's the Live Swimmers, and not just Plain Vanilla Seminal Fluid, that wriggle their cheerful ways into their targets' serotonin sweet-spots?
I also find the "cum" spelling to be vulgar, and prefer "come" if the term is to be used at all. I would also consider myself to be "coming" while climaxing, not "cumming," which looks stupid.
I don't like the word "pussy", either - its use in erotica does not turn me on, and even if "sex" is a little watered-down, I much prefer it. To me, "pussy" connotes something dirty or derogatory (what is the etymology of that term, anyway?), and in my experience, guys use it MUCH more often than girls do.
@ 21
From the wonderful and addictive Online Etymology Dictionary:
pussy (2)
slang for "cunt," 1879, but probably older; perhaps from O.N. puss "pocket, pouch" (cf. Low Ger. puse "vulva"), but perhaps instead from the cat word (see pussy (1)) on notion of "soft, warm, furry thing;" cf. Fr. le chat, which also has a double meaning, feline and genital.
Earlier uses are difficult to distinguish from pussy (1), e.g.:
"The word pussie is now used of a woman" [Philip Stubbes, "The Anatomie of Abuses," 1583]
But the use of pussy as a term of endearment argues against the vaginal sense being generally known before late 19c., e.g.:
" 'What do you think, pussy?' said her father to Eva." [Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 1852]
Pussy-whipped first attested 1956.
Aislinn, I don't know for sure, but I would guess "pussy" simply originated from an association between female cats and female genitalia. Other languages do it, too: the French word for female cat, "chatte," is slang for the vulva.
And if you want a really derogatory word, look at the origins of "pudendum." It's one of the few I refuse to use.
@22: Thanks, I knew I could count on you!
@23: You're right, that wasn't a word I whipped out that often anyway, but I'll likely avoid it from now on.
That is a dumb article. I think there are serious multicollinearity* issues as well as a few heteroscadicity** issues with the research. Duh!
* Multicollinearity occurs when variables are so highly correlated with each other that it is difficult to come up with reliable estimates of their individual regression coefficients. When two variables are highly correlated, they are basically measuring the same phenomenon or construct. In other words, when two variables are highly correlated, they both convey essentially the same information.
** In statistics, a sequence or a vector of random variables is heteroscedastic if the random variables in the sequence or vector may have different variances.
I actually find "pussy" to be a pretty sexy word. It sounds sleek and slick. "Cunt" is one I object to; it's harsh and guttural, not right at all.
Re: cum/come -- "cum", for me, is the noun; "come" is the verb.
They could be a little more precise and conduct a study comparing swallowers to spitters. Until then, I'm not buying it.
Research participants needed for important study. Must be female with a functioning vagina. Must be willing to potentially have random semen injected in to said vagina. Participants will receive 50 dollars, STDs and a pregnancy(or two!) for their service.
@20 (Mr. Crinklebank) - Who ever said anything about administering orally? The hormones are absorbed through vaginal walls. If we are going to do this, let's do it right people!
As for the vasectomized, I am afraid you are not eligible. It is the semen, not the sperm, that contains the hormones et al. No, I am afraid the faux-sperm will be needed - use your imagination and what you can find in your parent's kitchen!
P.S. Your website is hilarious.
@28 (Giffy) - I wonder how big a response you would get if you posted that on Craig's List...
Dan, I really hate "cum" too. Nothing to do with vulgar, even...it just looks so bloody juvenile.
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I can't help but think that the Christmas song that includes the lyric "the Lord is come" is dirty when "come" is the preferred spelling of male sexual ejaculate. Please, Dan, change your mind. Please spell male ejaculate as "cum". There. That is a load off of my mind. The spelling of this word has been very troubling to me since I was old enough to come.
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