Speaking mostly to myself, as I often do, there are times when I want to bring back that old piece I found somewhere and post it again.
It makes me feel good, as I wander off to read some science blogs.
That was the case this evening, and thank god for it or I’d never have seen The Intersection’s piece on Evolutionary psychology: the adaptive significance of semen flavor. I learned, via Jerry A. Coyne, Ph.D, a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, that semen tastes bad, it just does, and despite his initial confusion, as an evolutionary psychologist, and a man I’m sure, as to why nature hadn’t compensated the taste with some added sugars, making it at least tolerable, he finally came up with the truth.
Semen just tastes bad.
And guess what?
It tastes bad because it belongs in the vagina not the mouth, and until women vomit up their offspring the taste isn’t going to get any better.
Fact is if this stuff was meant to be swallowed nature would have made it taste like a root beer float, or at the very least a gin and tonic.
Thank you Professor.
