“I did,” said Ingeborg. “So long as the men looked healthy, so long as they didn’t seem to be rotting away from cancer or syphilis,” said Ingeborg. “The peasant women who roamed the station, the factory workers, the madwomen who were lost or had fled their homes, we all believed that semen was a precious nutrient, an extract of all kinds of vitamins, the best remedy for a cold,”
