diff --git a/fastembed/sparse/bm25.py b/fastembed/sparse/bm25.py
index eb9658ec..7d0b393f 100644
--- a/fastembed/sparse/bm25.py
+++ b/fastembed/sparse/bm25.py
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ class Bm25(SparseTextEmbeddingBase):
         b (float, optional): The b parameter in the BM25 formula. Defines the importance of the document length.
             Defaults to 0.75.
         avg_len (float, optional): The average length of the documents in the corpus. Defaults to 256.0.
-        language (str, optional): Specifies the language for the stemmer. Set to None to disable stemming.
+        language (str, optional): Specifies the language for the stemmer.
+        disable_stemmer (bool): Disable the stemmer.
     Raises:
         ValueError: If the model_name is not in the format <org>/<model> e.g. BAAI/bge-base-en.
     """
@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ def __init__(
         avg_len: float = 256.0,
         language: Optional[str] = "english",
         token_max_length: int = 40,
+        disable_stemmer: bool = False,
         **kwargs,
     ):
         super().__init__(model_name, cache_dir, **kwargs)
@@ -128,9 +130,14 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.token_max_length = token_max_length
         self.punctuation = set(get_all_punctuation())
-        self.stopwords = set(self._load_stopwords(self._model_dir, self.language))
 
-        self.stemmer = SnowballStemmer(language)
+        if disable_stemmer:
+            self.stopwords = []
+            self.stemmer = None
+        else:
+            self.stopwords = set(self._load_stopwords(self._model_dir, self.language))
+            self.stemmer = SnowballStemmer(language)
+
         self.tokenizer = SimpleTokenizer
 
     @classmethod
@@ -226,19 +233,21 @@ def embed(
     def _stem(self, tokens: list[str]) -> list[str]:
         stemmed_tokens = []
         for token in tokens:
+            lower_token = token.lower()
+
             if token in self.punctuation:
                 continue
 
-            if token.lower() in self.stopwords:
+            if lower_token in self.stopwords:
                 continue
 
             if len(token) > self.token_max_length:
                 continue
 
             if self.stemmer:
-                stemmed_token = self.stemmer.stem_word(token.lower())
+                stemmed_token = self.stemmer.stem_word(lower_token)
             else:
-                stemmed_token = token.lower()
+                stemmed_token = lower_token
 
             if stemmed_token:
                 stemmed_tokens.append(stemmed_token)