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- From: spencer@der.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
- Subject: Death by cunnilingus!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.030853.4689@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 03:08:53 GMT
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- Given the recent discussions on the riskiness (relative or absolute) of
- oral sex, I thought I would insert a random thread mutation and pass on
- this tidbit from _More of the Straight Dope_, by Cecil Adams, the same
- wise-ass dude who had that column listing the various items which have
- been discovered in people's rear ends. No, all his columns do not deal
- with questions of a sexual nature, but those tend to be more intriguing.
-
- --- begin excerpt ---
-
- Q: My boyfriend and I need some answers. You're the only one we can
- turn to. Please don't think we're weird. (1) Does taking a hot bath
- (120 degrees) kill sperm? He says he'll be sterile for a month. (2)
- Can blowing air into the vagina during oral sex really cause an air
- embolism and sudden death, as per _Joy of Sex_? -- Francine M.,
- Chicago
-
- A: I don't think _you're_ weird, sweetie, but you might want to keep an
- eye on that boyfriend of yours. The mobility of sperm is reduced at
- tempratures above 104 degrees or so, and "spermatogenisis" -- the
- creation of new sperm -- is slowed. But the effect is brief -- maybe
- half an hour, a researcher at the Masters and Johnson Institute guesses
- -- and it certainly doesn't affect all the sperm. Remmeber, it only
- takes one to get your pregnant. Hot baths are not recommended as a
- method of contraception, and they certainly wont' make a male sterile
- for a month.
- The bathtub _can_ be an effective birth-control device when used
- properly, however. It can be used for cold showers, for example, and it
- has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that conception can be prevented
- when one of the partners lies completely motionless in the tub while the
- other stays in the bedroom.
- This business about blowing air into the vagina is a lot more
- seriuos. It definitely can cause embolism and death, particularly if
- the woman is pregnant. Ten fatalities and one near-miss had been
- reported in the medical literature as of 1983. During pregnancy the
- vagina is distended, allowing dangerously large quantitites of air to be
- introduced. The air enters the bloodstream via the vein sinuses of the
- intrauterine wall and from there finds its way to the heart and the
- brain. Collapse is usually immediate, and death can occur within
- minutes. In the one nonfatal case, proper treatment was delayed in part
- because the victim's male partner didn't tell doctors what had happened
- until two hours after she was admitted to the hospital. The woman
- miscarried and, depiste treatment in a hyperbaric (high-pressure)
- chamber, suffered permanent brain damage. How likely such things are if
- the woman is _not_ pregnant is not clear, but if I were you I wouldn't
- try it under any circumstances.
-
- --- end of excerpt ---
-
- Amazing, the stuff they don't tell you in sex ed...
-
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- sss / Princeton University Class of 1994 / Department of Computer Science
- Life *is* pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
- [_The Princess Bride_]
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