In a shocking PSA, a Stanford doctor has warned women about the grim trend of men ejaculating into their drinks.
The disturbing fetish is not exactly new, but thanks to security footage and CCTV in offices and other businesses, more offenders are getting caught.
Dr Arghavan Salles, a GI doctor, took to TikTok to discuss the unsettling number of instances in which men have been caught putting their semen into women’s water bottles, coffee cups, and food.
The practice was brought to her attention by a follower who cited case of a Minnesota man who ejaculated into a female coworkers coffee for nearly a year before getting caught.
Another incident in California involved a man depositing semen into a woman’s water bottle and into a jar of honey that she used nearly every day.
John Robert Lind, (pictured at 34) was convicted on misdemeanor charges after admitting to tainting coworker Patricia Maahs’ drink with his semen while they worked together at a Minnesota hardware store
Semen can be a hotbed for infectious agents such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and some herpes viruses if the person ejaculating has an STI, exposing the drinker unbeknownst to her.
Women who have been affected by men’s behavior have described taking a drink from a cloudy water bottle or drinking coffee that tasted sour, similar to spoiled milk.
A follower of Dr Salles’ TikTok page alerted her to the case of John Robert Lind of Blaine, Minnesota, who had been putting semen in the coffee and on the desk of his coworker Patricia Maahs for months before he was found out.
Dr Salles said: ‘There are a disturbing number of men who are ejaculating into fluids women are drinking… For me, this is honestly a new fear unlocked.’
In Ms Maahs’ case, Mr Lind was first arrested on felony sex crime charges, but a legal loophole allowed those charges to be dismissed because the law doesn’t define contact with semen as sexual contact. He has since pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.
He told police that he had ejaculated into Ms Maahs’ coffee mug at least twice in six months and onto her desk, keyboard, and mouse at least four times, mopping up the mess with one of her hair scrunchies.
She caught Lind one day, his back facing her, with his hands near his crotch. He quickly ran from the office. Ms Maahs’ noticed her coffee was foul and the liquid on her desk, dripping to the floor, smelled similar to urine, but not quite.
When she found him in her office, Maahs said he had a ‘deer in the headlights’ expression.
According to court documents, Lind ‘said he thought it was a way to get [the victim] to notice him,’ though he ‘denied that it was a sexual compulsion that he could not control.’
Dr Salles said: ‘When I saw this comment [about the Maahs case] on my other video, I honestly didn’t know that men ejaculating into women’s beverages was like, a thing.
‘But when I was searching for it, I mistakenly had searched for men ejaculating into women’s water because I forgot the comment was specifically about coffee, and very quickly saw multiple stories about this.’
Among the most high-profile examples was the case of Stevens Millancastro, aka Stevens Millan, of La Palma, California.
Stevens Millancastro (pictured), 30, of California, who put his semen in a female co-worker’s water bottle, a jar of honey and on her computer, was jailed for two and a half years
He was convicted in 2020 on battery and assault charges after investigators learned he had been ejaculating into his female co-worker’s water bottles and putting semen into her honey jar and on her desk and computer accessories.
The case against Millancastro said: ‘Between Nov. 24, 2016, and Jan. 13, 2017, Jane Doe consumed the contaminated honey approximately every other day without knowing it contained the defendant’s semen.
He was sentenced to two and a half years in jail.
‘On Jan. 13, 2017, Jane Doe sat at her desk and touched her computer mouse, which was smeared with semen.’
Prosecutors in the case argued that Millancastro was ‘obsessed’ with his coworker, had asked her on a date, and when she declined, often stared at her, making her feel uncomfortable.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Kathleen Roberts, who decided the case without a jury, said: ‘We also know from his own testimony, and the testimony from the doctor, that he placed his semen on her items more times than he was actually charged.
‘This is much more serious and invasive than a normal punch or hit or slap,» Roberts said, explaining why she was doling out the maximum punishment. ‘This was a sexually motivated act… It is emotionally devastating to the victim.’
Prosecutors in the case said Mr Millancastro carried out the act after his coworker reported him, which the judge called ‘sexual revenge’.
Deputy District Attorney Laila Nikaien, meanwhile, said: ‘It’s a form of having power over the victim, of humiliating them.’
Other perpetrators, including Michael Lallana of Fullerton, California, admitted he ejaculated into an ‘attractive’ coworker’s water bottle because ‘her lips had touched it’, adding, ‘for me, it’s a release.’
The psychology behind such an unsettling fetish has not been extensively studied, though most of the literature on extreme fetishes paints those who have them as being dysfunctional with deviant sexual preferences.
People who ejaculate into women’s beverages have been studied by psychologists, but the act itself can be seen as a way to assert power over their victim.
The disgraced dentist Dr John Robert Hall exerted his power by tricking several of his female patients into swallowing a syringe filled with his semen that he told them would help stop bleeding in their mouths.
One of Hall’s patients also said at one point that he mounted the chair she was sitting in and ‘began to gyrate against her lower body in a sexual manner.’
That is not always the case, though, and psychologists have pointed out that as long as the fetish does not harm another person or engage in one’s own quality of life, it’s ok to enage.
In many cases, the men who do it are seeking validation from women they find attractive and unattainable.
