Question on the tip of many tongues
This one keeps popping up: Why won't she go down? Much as men love a blow job, many women simply blow them off. What's a guy to do?
If you've asked her why not (you have, haven't you?) and all you got was "I don't know" or, worse, "I just don't want to," all is not yet lost. Assuming you shower regularly, you haven't tried physical force to get what you want, and you're ready and willing to return the favor, you may yet be able to turn her around.
Deep psychological issues, puritanical beliefs, and hypersensitive gag reflexes aside (not our bailiwick), the problem for many women is a simple lack of knowledge. Is it safe to swallow that stuff? What's in it? What does it taste like? What if I hate what it tastes like?
So answer her questions!
What's in it? Metal and salt ions, sugars, lipids, steroid hormones, enzymes, prostaglandin hormones, amino acids, and basic amines. More specifically: aboutonia, ascorbic acid, blood-group antigens, calcium, chlorine, cholesterol, choline, chromatin (contains the DNA), citric acid, creatine, fructose, glutathione, hyaluronidase, inositol, lactic acid, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, purine, pyrimidine, pyruvic acid, sodium, sorbitol, spermidine, spermine, urea, uric acid, vitamin B12, and zinc. Nothing that's harmful, and plenty that's healthy.
What does it taste like? The simple sugar fructose is the main energy source for sperm cells; they rely entirely on sweets to fuel their race for the finish. (Hey, at least it's fruit sugar!) But it's the amines, such as putrescine, spermine, spermidine, and cadaverine, that give semen its basic smell and flavor. They're alkaline compounds derived from ammonia. Since everybody's different, though, the taste can tip either way: sweet or ammonia.
Before she says eeeew!you've got to know that what you eat can make all the difference. Too much garlic for dinner scents your entire body and all its secretions the next day, right? That includes semen. Your seminal vesicles, prostate, Cowpers gland, and bulbourethral glands can only work with the stuff you feed them. So a diet heavy in complex carbohydrates, including fresh fruit and vegetables, may come out sweeter. More animal protein—meat, fish—may tip your taste the other way.
Dairy products, especially milk, may be best skipped altogether; they can make body fluids pretty nasty. Drink water instead. Lots of it. (Big surprise: semen has water in it, too!)
If you pay attention to what you eat and drink and she still has a problem, check it out: it might not be your diet at all. Changes in blood sugar, which can affect the composition of ejaculate, may be caused by a number of different physical conditions and medications. Infections can mess you up, too. Get a check-up.
Once she knows what she's facing,
your partner can feel more confident about experimenting. Don't push; parley (and maybe eat some parsley). The rewards can be sweet. First, here's the nutritional lowdown on human male ejaculate: it's only 15 calories per shot. That's between 2 and 6 milliliters (slightly under half a teaspoon to a tad over one). One ejaculation carries about 200-million to 500-million sperm, but that accounts for only 2% to 5% of the total mix. The rest of the stuff is there to protect and nourish the little squirts during their arduous swim upstream. Most of it is fluid called seminal plasma, with just a little bit of mucus thrown in to hold it all together.