Wait! It's not what you think.
I got your Brown Bunny......right here
You see, what had hapened was...I was looking into HBO's Big Love, trying to decide whether to watch it. I saw that one of the stars was Chloe Sevigny, so I clicked on her. Toward the end of her article it mentioned THE BROWN BUNNY, which is famous mostly because it shows Sevigny performing fellatio on star Vincent Gallo (who was at the time her boyfriend). Curious, I clicked on the link. (You know how Wikipedia links half the words in their article, sort of like this post, right?)
Anyway, I'm reading along and suddenly I come upon the header "Link to reducing pre-eclampsia." I was only marginally aware of what pre-eclampsia even was, so I read on. Since some of you might be squeamish about clicking on the link, here's the paragraph:
It has been suggested that fellatio may have a beneficial role in preventing dangerous complications during pregnancy. Specifically, a research group reported that pre-eclampsia, a life threatening complication that sometimes arises in pregnancy, is much less frequent in couples who have practiced oral sex, and even more rare in couples where fellatio ended with the semen swallowed. Both results were statistically significant. This is consistent with other evidence that semen contains an agent that prevents preeclampsia, and with the theory that preeclampsia is an immunological condition. According to that view, preeclampsia is caused by a failure of the mother's organism to accept the fetus and placenta, which both contain "foreign" proteins from the father's genes. Regular exposure to the father's semen might cause her immune system to gradually "grow accustomed" to their proteins. Other studies also found that, while any exposure to the partner's sperm during sex appears to decrease the chances of various disorders, women in couples who have practiced "other sex acts" than intercourse are half as likely to suffer pre-eclampsia. It is not known whether this represents a protective effect of "other sex acts" including oral sex, or a correlation between these sexual practices and some other protective factor: for example, greater overall frequency of sex. The standard way to resolve such questions (confounding) in medical science would be through a randomized trial, but there are unique challenges to research in sexual health.
When reporting the findings of the first research group mentioned above, New Scientist magazine thought it worth mentioning that some of the research team were women (including the lead author). Candidates for a protective agent in semen may include serum hormone leutinizing agent and transforming growth factor beta.
Are you getting what this means? I think every husband with a pregnant wife should send me 20 dollars in BJ-thanks. Oh, and I'm not sure if Kaida comes to Monkey Barn anymore, but if she does, I'm ready to start a family.
(By the way, the fellatio article is totally safe for work. Whether you'd want someone sneaking up behind your back and calling out, "Hey everybody! Joan is reading about fellatio!" is another story)
1 comment:
fellatio, on the freeway with my pedal to floo
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