In her song “H.W.C.”-I’ll leave you to Google what that stands for-Liz Phair brags that her “skin’s getting clear” from her active sex life. I’m talking, of course, about the myth that semen is good for the skin. If you’re a young heterosexual woman, you may have heard it from a man in high school or college and if you’re a young heterosexual man, you may have said this to a woman during those same years of your life-and hopefully not after. Maybe you learned about it from an episode of HBO’s Real Sex or perhaps you are one of the hundreds of gullible people who continue to ask about it every year on Yahoo! Answers.
You might have learned about it from a Liz Phair song or seen it depicted on the FX series Nip/Tuck.
