[ytb]

is the efficacy of the pill affected in any way when ingesting sperm -I'm not asking if you can get pregs by ingesting sperm - rather, by doing so, will there be any hormonal changes or something like that that will impact my chances of not getting pregnant the conventional way?

[Claret]

The bacteria in your gut is so strong that it is unlikely that sperm would survive more than a few minutes. Then it is just dead material and excreted from the body in the normal way.

[kira]

Actually semen is made up of lots of useful vitamins and other nutrients that are broken down by the stomach and intestines. Fat soluble vitamins, vit c, proteins... It's also been found to improve depression symptoms both ingested and absorbed through the vaginal walls. So it's not just dead material.

It may change hormones and neurotransmitters a little, hence the improvement to depression, but it will not affect how the pill is working.

[Claret]

I was just giving a simplified response in order to speed up the process of typing in the forum. I don't know of nor am I aware of any study that links to an improvement in depression by ingesting sperm. Could you please provide the citation or a direction where I could read this? Thanks. But you are right it does contain vitamins, proteins, etc. but my response was that "sperm" is broken down in the gut and is not sperm anymore. It's state is altered by the action and contents of the stomach and that the sperm do not survive.