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As far as you’re concerned, you’re a proud, strong, ethical vegan. You eat seitan while your friends gorge on steak, drink Silk soy milk while they order milkshakes, and look bitchin’ in your faux-leather boots. But are you vegan in the bedroom? We’re not talking about animal heads mounted on the wall (and we assume your whips are synthetic). We’re talking about something a little more intimate. And a little stickier: Semen.
So, can vegans swallow? Semen is an animal product, because men are animals (get it? men are animals!), and, as we know, being vegan strictly prohibits consuming or using anything that is an animal product. Plus, what if your partner isn’t a vegan? If you are what you eat, would you indirectly be consuming meat or dairy? The Times UK also points out that semen contains sperm, which are alive. So, not only are you consuming something that came from a living thing, but you’re also technically consuming an actual living thing – a lot of them, in fact.
The Times UK did some research and called the Vegan Society to get their verdict. Their response was, “We work to promote lifestyles based on the non-consumption of animal products, and don’t really deal with the consumption of human animal products.” In a Livejournal thread discussing this very issue, vegans argue that it’s okay because the act is consensual – the man gives his sperm willingly (that’s an understatement), while animal products are taken by force.
What do you think? Should vegans be their own judges of whether or not they swallow semen?
(Apologies – your boss may have spotted the word “semen” on your computer screen several times. If he gives you a weird look in the elevator, that’s probably why.)
of course it is ok for a vegan to eat semen. It is a good source of protein. why put it to waste?
Respect to all the ethical vegans.
Say for instance a vegan goes to a placenta party–you know, those strange happenings where a mother offers her afterbirth to eat because of the nutritional qualities? In this situation the mother is entirely consenting the use of her flesh to be eaten. So, should a vegan eat the provided placenta that’s willingly consented to eat by the mother? Or for that matter breast milk? What about sperm? What I garner from the comments below suggests there are two types of vegans (heck, probably thousands–but here are the two major differences), the kind that chooses to be vegan over self-deemed ethical politics (whether or not the person or animal is willing to give up a part of it to be consumed or used) or the standard rule of not eating or using animal or animal byproduct whatsoever (nothing–no human sperm, placenta, or breast milk). As audacious a topic this is, people should have a right to know the differences of vegan preferences. Is stepping away from the kitchen and entering the bedroom crossing a line? Maybe? But then if no one asks will the sincerely curious minds ever get an answer or will they forever be forced in an ashamed ignorance?
Sperm isn’t an animal, its a microbial life form. If swallowing semen is considered non vegan then we might as well stop eating everything. All plants have microbial life living on them and inside them so everything we eat is in fact living and alive. All plant matter is living flesh, it’s alive and thriving even for several weeks after picked. The only thing that kills this life is cooking the food. Plants all have microbial life forms living in abundance but consing them does not make us any less of a vegan nor does it make any of us a carnivor.
i’m from Russia times are hard…am i aloud to drink my wife’s breast milk?
“Hey Baby, go right on ahead and swallow that”
“Sure, but then I have to eat the rest of you afterwards”….LMAO!
While i would never ask a woman to go down on me there is nother better(for me) than the stimulation when she swallows, as opposed to running for the hill’s all like ewww. I’ve been thinking if i should just persue vegan woman but i asked myself is seman vegan. And so I arrived here to find the answer. One could say there are millions of living things in the jizz but they are going to die regardless if you throw it away so if it’s sexy and doesn’t harm anybody then i say there’s nothing wrong with it and it’s healthy for all partys involved as long as its consentual and the woman gets her satisfaction. If you want to get super tecnical that seman needs to be given it’s chance at life then all vegan families would look like the Duggars. We all know the world can’t support that.
Swallowing sperm is not vegan. Additionally, the points made in this article suggest that the justification for allowing vegans to swallow and said it’s vegan: 1. It’s human-animal product so it’s different and 2. It was consensual,
those EXACT same two reasons could be used to argue why we should allow consensual cannibalism. A vegan who’s going around swallowing sperm and trying to justify it is using faulty logic to support their sexual practices which contradict their beliefs. If you want to be a vegan, don’t suck.
I agree with, Ashley. Besides, Vegans tastes better anyway. :)
I think this is halarious… my girlfriend is a vegan and i made this point to make fun of her. So i went online to see what other people say because i was pretty sure i wasnt the first person to me wierd enough to think of it. We both think that it is vegan because it is consentual for me to give the seman, but i still bust her chops and call her a cheating vegan. its more non vegitatian the vegan. the animal (haha me) isnt harmed, but the livivng sperm all die. but i just realized i have no idea why im leaving such a in depth answer, who care. do what you want and if you dont feel like its vegan to swallow dont. Its your call and you only have to answer to yourself at the end of the day.
It’s almost ridiculous to ask this. It’s obviously irrelevant to being “vegan.” Veganism is against cruelty to animals and environmental destruction. Giving a blowjob isn’t exactly exploiting anyone (except maybe the giver, if coerced).
As a vegan, I’d say that yes, it is vegan to swallow.
While it is technically an “animal product,” it’s nothing worse than the slip-up at the omni-restaurant by the waiter that throws sour cream onto something and then scoops it off and hopes that you don’t notice.