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A 46-year-old male asked:
Can you get diseases from eating your bodily fluids? is eating your own semen similar to eating your own urine and poop should it be avoided?
1 doctor answer • 3 doctors weighed in
Dr. Donald Colantinoanswered
Internal Medicine 63 years experience
Why do it: Urine and semen are normally sterile and the stool is loaded with bacteria which may not harm you. You shouldn't contract any diseases from those activities but they seem too grotesque to consider doing them.
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