From: broomstick@aol.com (Broomstick)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: Myth debunked - Blood Drinking
Date: 23 Jul 1994 09:31:05 -0400

In the last 4 months I've seen postings in several forums about the
dangers of drinking blood.  They fall into three categories:

1)  HIV  (real danger, but avoidable)
2) Drinking human blood makes you puke because you can't digest it (if
you puke its psychological - your stomach doesn't know the difference
between human blood and steak juice)
3)  Weird blood-borne infections (such as this Staph Aureliens thing)

Look, folks, blood is blood is blood.  If you eat meat, you eat blood
(kosher meat having most of it removed).  If blood went "bad" in 15 to
20 minutes from exposure to air we would all die from eating ANY meat
(except the vegetarians, of course) cause it takes DAYS for meat to
travel from the slaughter house to the supermarket to the dinner
table, sometimes weeks.  Yes, there can be nasty things in blood, and
it will spoil like any other animal-derived protein, but this business
of DRINKING BLOOD WILL MAKE YOU DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH IN 12 HOURS OR
LESS IS BULLSHIT!

In this regard (on the physical as opposed to psychic level) human
blood is not significantly different than any other animal blood.

Don't worry about oral sex and menstruation - as long neither of you
have any STD's you're both safe.  Oh, by the way, if you have cold
sores restrain yourself - you wouldn't want to give your lady friend
genital herpes.  Other than that, have fun.

>---Broomstick---
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From: devens@uoguelph.ca (David L Evens)
Subject: Re: Myth debunked - Blood Drinking
Date: 23 Jul 1994 19:31:33 GMT

Consider this about the supposed mechanism for this S. Aurelius
poisoning:

This bacterium is allegedly found fairly commonly in the bloodstream.
There is a term for the condition of having bacteria living free in
the bloodstream.  This is called septisimia.  It is usually fatal
within hours.

As well, if these bacteria were present in the bloodstream and
produced a toxin on exposure to oxygen, then they would do so in the
bloodstream, since the blood is reoxygenated in a human every minute
or so on average when it goes through the lungs.

This whole notion is simply garbage.
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