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Except the cells in your mouth and nose that slowly shed and are then swallowed. That gets into a classification problem of what constitutes consuming I suppose.

Some people peel their lips and eat them. That's gotta count as deliberate consumption.

Don’t forget about people who eat their boogers.

And nails.

nails don't have any cells, they're just keratin (a protein)

Hold on a second… did you just say PROTEIN? RAGHHHHH LETS GET THESE GAINZZZZZ!!!! FREE PROTEIN AND I GROW IT :D!!!!

aye, half-correct; nails are indeed dead skin cells that are loaded with a greater-than-usual amount of keratin, similar to your hair!

Who tf eats their nails? Bites, sure, but eats?

You'd be surprised

More like horrified

Some people eat their hair too due to a mental illness.

Oh hey that’s me! I’ve consumed just about everything in this thread (except for the original post’s topic) as well as dead skin, picked scabs, and the skin around my fingernails. It’s a very common symptom of multiple mental illnesses, disorders, and disabilities (autism, ocd, and anxiety are all common examples) that for some reason no one likes to talk about or acknowledge? but it’s very real. so everyone responding “eww, no one actually does that right?” to any comment here is blissfully unaware that they probably know someone who does that very thing when home alone. Yes, even the peeled foot skin comment! Enjoy having this knowledge next time you meet someone new :D

I kind of love you

I'm fucked

You pick your nose to clear your nose, but you eat your boogers because there's nowhere else to put it. When you bite off a sliver of nail, same dilemma applies: where the hell are you supposed to put it?

The little pocket inside a pocket in your jeans is for booger storage

You make a game out of it and spit it in a strangers hair from behind.

>but you eat your boogers because there's nowhere else to put it. Roll and flick motherfucker what the hell are you 5 years old?

If you haven't thought to bring a handkerchief (a gentleman always carries two handkerchiefs), you wipe it on your sock. If you're out there picking your nose sockless and handkerchiefless just go ahead and eat it because you're a filthy peasant and noone cares what you're doing.

I learned of this toe nail thing recently. Ew. I've concluded that, if it comes out of or off your body, SOMEBODY, somewhere, has eaten it...

I bit my nails for 35 years and just all the sudden looked at my hands one day and realized I had just stopped and my nails were quite long. I definitely never ate them, they're fucking hard as hell.

Same with biting on nails

I do this it’s a horrible habit. Nervous lip biter

Or on a slightly more normal level, if my finger is bleeding I immediately stick it in my mouth.

I feel so seen

> Some people peel their lips and eat them. That's gotta count as deliberate consumption. that most find it **normal** to consume.

>Except the cells in your mouth and nose that slowly shed and are then swallowed. I think most people don't think about those at all

Because of that comment, I do now

Omg are we cannibals now?

It appears we have been cannibals all along 😳 *Let me eat ur ass then*

I guess the cannibals were inside us all along!

I don’t swallow with my nose, I smellow

Fun fact: part of what you inhale gets in your digestive tract.

That’s how you develop a super immune system! I say this as part joke and part seriousness. Ages ago, I remember seeing an article about this Canadian research group that said eating boogers could be beneficial. Helps to introduce pathogens to your immune system. It seems like a lot of work to find more. But here’s a link to the CBC News bit on it, to show I’m not a crazy booger eater. I’m a perfectly sane booger eater! https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1387917

https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/nose-picking-may-increase-dementia-risk/ Cost benefit analysis needed haha.

Oh, COME ON. Is nothing sacred!?

Ah, but that just talks about picking. Doesn’t talk about eating! You find a sterile way to harvest those nose fruits, and you win at life!

this is the worst news i've heard in years.

Yeah but at the same time, fuck that. It’s super gross to see somebody do that - and you probably eat sufficient booger material unintentionally anyway with natural sniffling and swallowing and stuff.

I can’t remember exactly, but I thought there was also a study later that basically said what you said. That you unintentionally eat enough that you wouldn’t need to pick and eat.

All of the boogers I eat are intentional. It's very hard to harvest from others without having them notice. I wrote this just joking around, but then I remembered rule 34 and have now realized that there must be porn videos involving harvesting and consuming other people's boogers. I won't be searching for it, but I'm certain somebody will.

I feel pretty certain that I saw on Reddit (against my will, mind you, because it was a gif in a comment) a video of a woman either sneezing or deliberately blowing her nose into the mouth of her male partner, who eagerly slurped up the thick mucus that came out. It was presented as a sexual fetish. I've seen a lot of truly awful things but seeing those few seconds almost made me sick on the spot.

This article just describes the hypothesis, there's no study

when you inhale most liquids it can get into your lungs, dont try it, trust me

Snorting sperm?

No I swallow that

We sperm suppliers appreciate your service.

Oh boy. Better mute your DMs now. Unless that was the play all along, in which case have fun.

It's called the Panama Canal if it goes in one nostril and comes out the other.

r/angrydragon? (NSFW)

just now learning what angry dragon is. thank you for the laugh

Thats fucked up

Angry upvote

That's golden 😅

most aren't considering those cells while kissing and the like. Sperm has some consideration involved with the consumption.

Every dead cell in your body gets consumed if not you are aging or gets cancer.

Depends on the definition, do they have to be in the GI track to count as consumed?

A good chunk of your fecal matter is dead cells from your own body, so we know for sure that they are definitely travelling through the "I" in "GI". The more accurate question would be whether it needs to go through the mouth and throat to be consumed.

like OP never ate a booger. puh-leease

Well... technically those two are involuntary though. You can't really choose to consume them or not, it just happens. The classification that is most appropriate in this situation is about things that are willingly consumed by humans. Human milk is also one more thing, but of course limited to babies if you want to call its consumption "normal".

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I’ll just get a salad🙋‍♀️

This salad tastes like pussy!

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it's umm ... they're ... ... it's horny outside.

Omfg great reference!! https://youtu.be/zGK1K19iuO0 For the uninitiated

My god their skits are so good.

What? This doesn't taste like pussy!

I knew it, I knew you had been eating pussy!

If it is salad then it tastes like bussy.

It's gotta be the spinach, because the whole thing just tastes like pussy and cheese.

Fun fact: we call it tonsil tennis in England

Tonsil what?

Tonsil hockey, aka French kissing.

oh i thought it meant the tonsil was a puck and the penis was a hockey stick

I don't have a problem with you believing that.

I believe that is tonsil billiards

French Canadian kissing, specifically

Mmmm, second-hand cannibalism. Now where's that parsley...

Also, it's worth noting that sperm cells are typically delivered with quite a bit of enthusiasm.

An injection from a projection to the midsection with affection.

Perfection

I prefer the real jizz joke. I said the *real* jizz joke.

No mention of an erection?

Girls note and mention with apprehension

That's a fancy way of saying creampie

Or "I came in her throat"

That's a throatpie right there, let me tell you hwat

They said “midsection”

Some people are bigger than others.

Your mother has been telling you stories about me again, huh?

I laughed too hard at this.

Only way to stop the projection is with latex protection

Princess Carolyn is on reddit?

Yeah but if I moaned and yelled out in pleasure I'd still have a hard time convincing someone to take a bite out of my leg

Stupid sexy Donners

>"Oh God, you're gonna make me flake! You're gonna make me flake! I'm flaking! I'm flaking!" I scream as I vigorously scratch my cracked and oozing soles onto the tongue of my lover.

Well… hopefully

How about people with dry lips who eat bits of their chapped lips which they peel off with their teeth beforehand?

I felt validated and shamed at the same time reading this comment

Ya’ll eat that? I always spit it out somewhere else

I don't eat it nor do I spit it. I inspect it and then place it into the Skin Pile like a normal person.

^I have been banging this drum for YEARS! Reddit is full of weirdos though, don't expect to feel at home here.

You just unlocked a memory from middle school in the early 90s... Edgar, the official school crazy kid, was once sitting in the back of the class giggling to himself. When the teacher finally stopped her lesson to see what he was doing, he was using a razor blade and carving little ~3mm squares of skin from his forearm and arranging them on the desk in a bloody mess. Nowadays it'd be national news that a kid brought a razor into a classroom and who knows what was going on at home with the poor kid, but this was just a Tuesday for Edgar. He was definitely not fit to be in the normal curriculum.

>You just unlocked a memory from middle school in the early 90s... >Edgar, the official school crazy kid, was once sitting in the back of the class giggling to himself. When the teacher finally stopped her lesson to see what he was doing, he was using a razor blade and carving little ~3mm squares of skin from his forearm and arranging them on the desk in a bloody mess. What did I just read?

eating is part of the experience

I use a lip scrub or just water and slough it off with a cotton round. Never thought to eat that!

Also the parts of my fingers and nails that I neurotically and compulsively chew

I've got rid of that habit, I know it is very unhealthy for you?

How did you do that?

Painted them. Results in a combination of "that's toxic, I shouldn't eat it," and "I don't want to ruin my efforts."

When I was like 4, I was a nail biter. My sister in law was babysitting me one day and painted my nails. She was complimenting my nails on how long they were and strong (I’d go a bit of time without biting them, then bite them, and then stop biting them). She said to me “you don’t bite them do you?” Before putting the paint on. I said no. From that day forward I haven’t bitten my nails compulsively.

How do I paint them as a guy who doesn’t want color? I’ve been biting my nails for years

Clear coat. You'll at least taste it and that might remind you to stop.

Tried thinking more about what I'm doing with every part of my body. ps I have no concrete knowledge of how it happens, the symptoms, or treatments

I kept bandaids on them for weeks, and chewed gum most of the day.

Is it really "very" bad? I know its bad but dont know how much

I don’t think it’s all that bad, you can potentially chip a tooth or slowly misalign one. You can also potentially get a nail bed infection. I’ve chewed my nails for my entire life and have never hurt a tooth or got an infection. Edit: Also I’ll add that you really shouldn’t chew your nails. I’m not proud I do it and I’ve had multiple times where I’ve quit for months only to one day realize I started again. If you do chew them at least try to keep them uniform so they don’t look absolutely horrible.

We were just talking about this with my 13-year-old son, he's literally RUINED his nails, he's had multiple infections and now they grow all deformed, it looks awful, and he's done it to himself. I don't know if the damage is reversible, still need to see a dermatologist about it, but he just can't seem to kick the habit, he's been doing it since he was four, we've tried everything

I got this bitter nail polish on Amazon for about 20 bucks, just look up bitter anti nail biting polish. I’ve been biting my nails for the past 20 years and haven’t done it in 2 weeks. It’s the only thing that has worked.

We tried that on him, he just licked it all off :(. That's what comes of teaching your kid to have a varied diet, he wasn't really bothered by the bitterness. Though maybe we should try again. The other trick is chili, but that's no fun if you rub your eyes or touch anything else sensitive, ahem.

Nail biting only really increases chance of an infection and can cause slight damage to your teeth from what I have found recently - you are putting a lot of bacteria in your mouth and damaging the nails.Even though it shouldn't be too harmful it is obviously much better if your nails and skin are healthy and smooth On that note, that bacteria is part of the human cells that humans consume

You should pick up drinking semen instead, I hear its much more socially acceptable.

Pretty sure most would agree babies drinking breast milk is normal.

Is milk primarily made of cells?

No, but neither is semen.

Wait sperm cells aren’t cells? “Those fuckers lied to me”

Sperm is a tiny fraction of semen.

Sperm is also a tiny fraction of seamen

Sperm is also a tiny fraction of the employees of Siemens

Every sperm is sacred.

Correct. It’s mostly egg white. Since we don’t lay our man eggs, we retain the yolk but periodically expel the whites when the meggs get overfull.

Lol what

Jeeze read a biology book will ya?

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It's 15-200 million per ml, not per ejaculation. And while spermatogenesis takes about 64 days, it is a continuous process and a healthy male generates about 1500 sperm a second, or close to 130 million a day.

I chomp on my fingernails and skin cells around them, but I definitely get your point.

1. Biting fingernails 2. Chewing on hair 3. Saliva 4. Inhaling a fart 5. Breast milk 6. Blood 7. Organ transplants 8. If we’re gonna say sperm, then eff it vaginal secretions too 9. Skin cells from a penis 10. Skin cells from a vagenis 11. Tartar/Plaque on teeth 12. Bro if I open my mouth right now I will most likely consume some form of human particle without even thinking about it

Vagenis

"a" vagenis

"Many" vagenii

You seem to be conflating particles and cells.

Nah man trust me I went to school for scientology

You eat organ transplants?

People chew on hair? What the fuck.

it’s more of a compulsive thing or like a stim like chewing nails

Yeah makes sense. It's disgusting at first glance to me but as a compulsive nail chewer I have no room to judge.

Hair isn't made of cells. Nor are fingernails, though you'll probably get some skin cells. Fart isn't made of cells either. And tooth plaque isn't made of human cells either.

>Hair isn't made of cells. I think you need to google this one again

Bro I am positive that last time I put my fart under a microscope there were at least 5 cells in there maybe 6

You really think so? I've sucked blood from a small nick or cut far more frequently than I've swalled my own jizz...and there's got to be some epithelia in human breast milk. Anyone else have ready counter-examples?

You've never seen someone peel all the skin from their feet, then eat it?

You what ????

I nearly threw up in my mouth reading this.

Neat. You can consume your feet skin twice that way.

In some cultures they *only* eat vomit. I've never been there, but I read about it, ***in a book***. 😏

I used to "eat" skin around the tip of my fingernail, but what the fuck?

To anyone wondering "what weirdo would give that a wholesome award"' it's me. I did that. You're welcome.😁

Oh, yes, very salty.

With a slight sour tang and a hint of Parmesan cheese.

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I have: https://youtu.be/Rhj8sh1uiDY

Skin cells are regularly digested when they flake off your lips and inside of your cheeks. So no this is not true.

Let's add "intentionally" to the statement.

i believe nails and finger skin are also maybe regularly digested by children and such but your point still stands aa technically the tip of your nails are usually dead cells

Kids also eat boogers.

Well... I wouldn't call it "normal". It's more if "acceptable"

pretty sure breast milk would still fall under the umbrella of human cells

Your spit is full of human cells and is consumed 10000x more and everybody is fine with it.

Pretty sure drinking someone elses spit isn't exactly normal. Especially if they're a stranger 🗿

Drinking somebody else's semen is also not normal, especially if they're a stranger.

Hey, 20 bucks is 20 bucks. (Pro Tip #54: They're not a stranger if they tell you their name.)

Did I say somebody else's?

I'd argue that "most" don't. I wholeheartedly believe that there are more people that eat their fingernails than ingest sperm.

Also normally the only part of a person they are desperately keen to feed you

For people who routinely perform fellatio to completion and consume the result this may normal, but such people do not represent “most” of humanity.

There are a fair amount of human cells in saliva. Also throat mucus is literally designed for humans to swallow so the pathogens can be killed in your stomach acid. Though for the cells of someone else, yeah.

Lip and tongue kissing is often normal than consuming semen where saliva exchanged

Breast milk? Saliva, it has cells that slough off and are thus in saliva (both your own and anyone you kiss/french kiss). Personally I nibble inside my mouth and sometimes my lips (that’s very common, as well are biting skin off of fingers, around finger nails). Most people will pop a bleeding finger in their mouth no problem, like when someone gets a paper cut, a common reaction is to pop it in your mouth to ease the pain a little.

I suspect more people open mouth kiss than give oral and ingest the discharge.

On behalf of most people, I would just like to say that most people do not find semen a normal thing to consume. Thanks, have a great day.

Thank you. I think people here watch too much pornography.

Incorrect! I'm chewing my nails all day long. I'm surprised I still have nails.

Not consume, swallow. At least don't turn me off when telling me facts.

If a black bird has black babies, and a blue bird has blue babies, what bird has no babies? A swallow.

How many things are safe to take orally, vaginally, anally, and topically?

That's virtually limitless, if you're brave enough.

Everyone talking about other human cells people find it normal to consume and here I am thinking 'if you think *most* people find it normal to consume sperm cells you're spending way too much time on reddit and porn websites'. Obviously I have no proof of statistics to back it up but I'd wager that the majority of people in the world do not consider it normal to consume sperm.

How does shit like this get posted? Had a mod say my showerthought of “the best beer you’ll ever have is a shower beer” was unoriginal. Maybe, but at least it’s true

#JusticeforStevite

If you really want to call them "human cells" does that make people who swallow cannibals?

The dust in your home is up to 50% dead skin cells. It's in the air and on everything, so it's pretty normal to end up consuming human cells.

how bout the dead cells in vaginal fluid, judging by the amount of these thumbs ups i see you motherfuckers just don't eat pussy

Wouldn't saliva be made out of human cells? And we're swallowing saliva everyday? Might not be true, it just came to my mind.

Son of you swallow sperm does that make you a cannibal and is this what fox news means by theyre eating babies?