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Is eating sperm cannibalism?
Human eating habits are based on the idea of all things being edible. This includes people, plants and animals. Human flesh is seen as food to be eaten by others because it has been proven that human meat can sustain life. Sperm is a part of the male body and so it follows in this logic that sperm can also be consumed for sustenance.
The sperm is not consumed in a sexual or intimate way, but as part of a meal. Thus it does not carry the weight of intimacy that eating another human being would have.
From the outside, it is hard to tell why eating someone else's sperm would be seen as cannibalism. It is a part of another human being and so technically it can be eaten. In the end, there are people who do consume semen for its nutritional value.
I think that if the argument is whether consuming sperm for sustenance is cannibalism or not, then it does not meet all of the conditions necessary to be considered cannibalism.
In the end, human eating habits are based on a number of different things that have been proven throughout time. If one were to eat another person's sperm for sustenance then they would not be cannibalizing another human being.
And that is my response.