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What are some bizarre historical views on semen?
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I think this takes the cake:

"[In the middle ages] the physical origin of sperm, in men and in women, was also debated. The brain, the head in general, the body as a whole and the reproductive organs more specifically all had their supporters. The medieval mind liked to work by analogy, and the whiteness of the brain was likened to the whiteness of semen, the spinal cord providing a physiological link between these two substances. Both semen and breast milk were believed to derive from blood, undergoing a series of purifications during which they lost their colour. Men, needless to say, were thought to purify their blood more completely, thanks to their hotter nature. Emission of both menstrual blood and semen were thought to remove impurities from the body. The retention of these products could poison the system, and sexual activity, including masturbation, was sometimes recommended by doctors as a cure for various ailments. Churchmen were left to debate whether in such circumstances sexual activity constituted a sin, or was necessary for the health of the body"
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Pliny the elder thought sperm that came from the right nut made boys while jizz from the left made girls
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The Greek physician Galen thought baby bones were formed from semen.
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>>1255917
EVERY MAN HIS OWN STYLO!
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Hippocrates advised men to retain their semen because he thought it would give them innate strength.
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>>1255917
>>1256016
>>1256052
>>1256127
> These gifs
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Chinese: They thought Jade deposits were fossilized globs of Dragon Jizz

Egyptian: Ra created life on earth by jacking it into existence

European: Dandelion goo is white so if you drink Dandelion wine you make better baby batter
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>>1256127

>Hippocrates
>/fit/ shitposter

pick two
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>>1255917
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoro_people
>They are well known among anthropologists because of ritual homosexual acts practised between the young boys and men of the tribe. The Etoro believe that young boys must ingest the semen of their elders daily from the age of 7 until they turn 17 to achieve adult male status and to properly mature and grow strong.

>The Etoro believe that they each contain a certain amount of life force, the highest concentrations of which are contained in semen. This life force passes to others through sexual relations. Women are seen to waste the life force if they do not get pregnant after sexual intercourse. As people get older, and their bodies weaken, this is attributed to a depletion of their life force.
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>>1256605
>getting face fucked daily for 10 years
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>>1256576
>mfw Horus splooged over his uncle Set's salad
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>>1256605
Mfw most societies use spiritual belief as a way to get money, authority, and divine right from the common people, but the Etoro people just use it to get free BJs.
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>>1256605
>The Etoro believe that young boys must ingest the semen of their elders daily from the age of 7 until they turn 17
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>>1255917
>The medieval mind liked to work by analogy, and the whiteness of the brain was likened to the whiteness of semen, the spinal cord providing a physiological link between these two substances.
This must come from some Greek/Latin memester since it's something Muslims also believed at the time.
> The retention of these products could poison the system, and sexual activity, including masturbation, was sometimes recommended by doctors as a cure for various ailments
This vene though it's explanation is wrong, isn't actually false. Not ever masturbating has been proved to not be healthy.
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>>1259671
>This vene though
Huh?
> isn't actually false.
Okay.
>Not ever masturbating has been proved to not be healthy.
Right. The quote was arguing against that.
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Paracelsus thought that if you put human semen in a jar, then put the jar in a pile of manure (consistent warm temperature) and fed it human blood regularly, it'd grow into a magical miniature human called a homunculous.
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>>1260027
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNLPXzlz6-I
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>>1260129
Lol this motherfucker is playing with a yolked up, dried up infected jizz injection and calling it homunculus lmao
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>>1255917

In the Quran, you know, the "holy" book of Islam, semen comes from the backbone and rib.

kek
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>>1256576
>Chinese: They thought Jade deposits were fossilized globs of Dragon Jizz

Next time on dragonball
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>>1260211
Verse?
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