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Celebrity Stomach Pump

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By David Emery, About.com

Dear Guide:

Have you ever heard the legend about Rod Stewart passing out on stage?  He was subsequently taken to the hospital and had his stomach pumped.  From within his stomach, they allegedly siphened many ounces of fresh semen, enough to fill a pint glass.  A mug of cum!


Dear Reader:

And so discreetly phrased. Thank you!

You may be interested to know that precisely the same story, give or take a pint or two, has been told of Elton John, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jon Bon Jovi, Alanis Morissette, Britney Spears and Lil' Kim, to name but a few. Its origin dates back to the early 1970s, when seemingly every high school and college campus across the United States could claim a Promiscuous Cheerleader who wound up in the emergency room to have her stomach pumped after servicing the entire football team.

Clearly, the moral focus of this cautionary tale has changed over time, with female rock stars replacing gay-seeming male rock stars as the "slutty cheerleaders" of the moment.

As to the story's credibility, well, nevermind the practicalities of how a person might manage to ingest so much semen in one sitting, given that the average volume of male ejaculate, according to experts, is one-half to one teaspoon, and there are 96 teaspoons in a pint (do the math) -- what I'd like to know is: can semen really be so toxic to consume that emergency stomach pumping is required?

I suspect not.

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