Sometimes people describe the taste of their food as being better than sex. In other cases, the food actually is having sex with you. Posted by @ColinDickey, this horrifying passage is from Preparing the Ghost, by Matthew Gavin Frank.
Squid corpses, even when cooked, retain their sexual reflexes and have been known to inseminate our mouths. After eating calamari…a South Korean woman reported experiencing “severe pain” and a “pricking foreign-body sensation” in her mouth. From her tongue, inner cheeks, gums, throat, her doctor escised “twelve small, white, spindle-shaped, bug-like organisms.” These were spermatophores, whicih possess seriously tenacious ejaculatory apparati, and a cementlike body, which allows for their attachment to materials like the tongue, inner cheeks, gums…
More information: That Squid On Your Plate Could Inseminate Your Mouth
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