diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index d24cf214..0ab42cef 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -101,3 +101,4 @@ Patches and Suggestions
 - Justin Barber <barber.justin@gmail.com>
 - Roman Haritonov <@reclosedev>
 - Josh Imhoff <joshimhoff13@gmail.com>
+- Arup Malakar <amalakar@gmail.com>
diff --git a/requests/api.py b/requests/api.py
index 4fc30709..cc6a1c7b 100644
--- a/requests/api.py
+++ b/requests/api.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ def request(method, url, **kwargs):
     :param data: (optional) Dictionary or bytes to send in the body of the :class:`Request`.
     :param headers: (optional) Dictionary of HTTP Headers to send with the :class:`Request`.
     :param cookies: (optional) Dict or CookieJar object to send with the :class:`Request`.
+    :param store_cookies: (optional) if ``False``, the received cookies as part of the HTTP response would be ignored.
     :param files: (optional) Dictionary of 'name': file-like-objects (or {'name': ('filename', fileobj)}) for multipart encoding upload.
     :param auth: (optional) Auth tuple to enable Basic/Digest/Custom HTTP Auth.
     :param timeout: (optional) Float describing the timeout of the request.
diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index e60e67b1..79a3bc36 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ class Request(object):
         params=dict(),
         auth=None,
         cookies=None,
+        store_cookies=True,
         timeout=None,
         redirect=False,
         allow_redirects=False,
@@ -109,6 +110,9 @@ class Request(object):
         # Dictionary mapping protocol to the URL of the proxy (e.g. {'http': 'foo.bar:3128'})
         self.proxies = dict(proxies or [])
 
+        #param store_cookies: (optional) if ``False``, the received cookies as part of the HTTP response would be ignored.
+        self.store_cookies = store_cookies
+
         # If no proxies are given, allow configuration by environment variables
         # HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY.
         if not self.proxies and self.config.get('trust_env'):
@@ -196,8 +200,9 @@ class Request(object):
                 # Set encoding.
                 response.encoding = get_encoding_from_headers(response.headers)
 
-                # Add new cookies from the server.
-                extract_cookies_to_jar(self.cookies, self, resp)
+                # Add new cookies from the server. Don't if configured not to
+                if self.store_cookies:
+                    extract_cookies_to_jar(self.cookies, self, resp)
 
                 # Save cookies in Response.
                 response.cookies = self.cookies
diff --git a/requests/sessions.py b/requests/sessions.py
index aa90ecc7..e047ce56 100644
--- a/requests/sessions.py
+++ b/requests/sessions.py
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ class Session(object):
     def __init__(self,
         headers=None,
         cookies=None,
+        store_cookies=True,
         auth=None,
         timeout=None,
         proxies=None,
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ class Session(object):
         self.prefetch = prefetch
         self.verify = verify
         self.cert = cert
+        self.store_cookies = store_cookies
 
         for (k, v) in list(defaults.items()):
             self.config.setdefault(k, deepcopy(v))
@@ -112,6 +114,7 @@ class Session(object):
         data=None,
         headers=None,
         cookies=None,
+        store_cookies=True,
         files=None,
         auth=None,
         timeout=None,
@@ -133,6 +136,7 @@ class Session(object):
         :param data: (optional) Dictionary or bytes to send in the body of the :class:`Request`.
         :param headers: (optional) Dictionary of HTTP Headers to send with the :class:`Request`.
         :param cookies: (optional) Dict or CookieJar object to send with the :class:`Request`.
+        :param store_cookies: (optional) if ``False``, the received cookies as part of the HTTP response would be ignored.
         :param files: (optional) Dictionary of 'filename': file-like-objects for multipart encoding upload.
         :param auth: (optional) Auth tuple or callable to enable Basic/Digest/Custom HTTP Auth.
         :param timeout: (optional) Float describing the timeout of the request.
@@ -171,6 +175,7 @@ class Session(object):
             params=params,
             headers=headers,
             cookies=cookies,
+            store_cookies=store_cookies,
             files=files,
             auth=auth,
             hooks=hooks,
diff --git a/tests/test_cookies.py b/tests/test_cookies.py
index dca7d2c4..a9fda180 100755
--- a/tests/test_cookies.py
+++ b/tests/test_cookies.py
@@ -102,6 +102,27 @@ class CookieTests(TestBaseMixin, unittest.TestCase):
         insecure_cookies_sent = json.loads(insecure_resp.text)['cookies']
         self.assertEqual(insecure_cookies_sent, {})
 
+    def test_disabled_cookie_persistence(self):
+        """Test that cookies are not persisted when configured accordingly."""
+
+        # Check the case when no cookie is passed as part of the request and the one in response is ignored
+        cookies = requests.get(httpbin('cookies', 'set', 'key', 'value'), store_cookies = False).cookies
+        self.assertIsNone(cookies.get("key"))
+
+        # Test that the cookies passed while making the request still gets used and is available in response object.
+        # only the ones received from server is not saved
+        cookies_2 = requests.get(httpbin('cookies', 'set', 'key', 'value'), store_cookies = False,\
+                                                cookies = {"key_2" : "value_2"}).cookies
+        self.assertEqual(len(cookies_2), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(cookies_2.get("key_2"), "value_2")
+
+        # Use the session and make sure that the received cookie is not used in subsequent calls
+        s = requests.session()
+        s.get(httpbin('cookies', 'set', 'key', 'value'), store_cookies = False)
+        r = s.get(httpbin('cookies'))
+        self.assertEqual(json.loads(r.text)['cookies'], {})
+
+
 class LWPCookieJarTest(TestBaseMixin, unittest.TestCase):
     """Check store/load of cookies to FileCookieJar's, specifically LWPCookieJar's."""