The Macho Mojito
SF WEEKLY: Paul “Fotie” Photenhauer, semen-cooking enthusiast, has two self-published cookbooks, 2011’s Natural Harvest: A Collection of Semen-Based Recipes and the new Semenology: The Semen Bartender’s Handbook .
Photenhauer isn’t some perv who drinks or eats semen all day — he says he reserves semen cooking for special, intimate encounters with his partner. “For me, it’s more of a fun twist to add to food, or in this case a drink. It adds a definite personal twist to it,” he says. “I would never eat or drink semen, cooked or otherwise, from someone I wouldn’t be willing to have sex with.”
Though semen cocktails don’t equal sexy times for most of us, the cookbooks do bring up the question of why semen-swallowing is such a social taboo outside the bedroom. Which is how Photenhauer got the idea in the first place, at a dinner party back in 2006. The conversation at the table turned to spitting or swallowing, and he noticed that everyone, gay or straight, expected their partner to swallow but weren’t necessarily willing to reciprocate.
Photenhauer, for his part, acknowledges the risks of ingesting the semen of strangers, and was adamant on the phone and in his books that no one should serve guests semen-filled food without their knowledge. “I’m against [people saying], ‘Oh, I put semen in their margarita and they didn’t know about it,'” he says. “That’s wrong. That’s gross and that’s wrong.”
“If you want your partner to swallow, you should be willing to eat your own semen — I mean, it’s your semen,” he says. “Then I started thinking about it. People eat all kinds of weird shit. Eggs are the menstruation of chickens. Milk is the mammary excretion from cows. Semen is… at least it’s fresh and you know who the producer is.
“The question is, why is eating semen so much weirder than having a yogurt?” I gave a noncommittal, slightly horrified response, which he picked up on. “I mean, I get it. I’m not an idiot. I get that there’s a difference. But the question is, why is it so much different?”
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