to think this is a load of rubbish

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washington.cbslocal.com/2012/08/10/study-oral-sex-cures-morning-sickness/

The Fail's sub-heading yesterday used the word 'devour' as in 'devouring their partner's semen...' ick ick boke and feck off.

isn't morning sickness caused by the growing placenta?

Some women are allergic to their partners semen which is pretty unfortunate. I think it's pretty rare though... And don't see what that has to do with jeremy kyle guests!

If the semen were going into the stomach then yes you could assume that it would cause morning sickness,but babies are created when the sperm and egg meet,in a completly different part of the body (or indeed in a petri dish,which rubbishes this shite anyway as the semen dosent enter the body).

You would think that if he managed to get a degree,he would know what babies grow in the uterus in which the body would not vomit to rid itself of it.

Its the greatest load of wanktwattery I've ever read.

SQ - fair enough, no idea.

I just reckoned she was trying to explain his bizarre theory, rather than subscribing to it, if that makes sense?

God, they really will make up any old shit to get a blow job won't they? Worse than the spunk is good for your skin theory that more than one foul teenage boy spun me.
If I read the total load of unscientific lying bollocks article correctly, it isn't oral sex that 'cures' morning sickness, it's sperm. So you could just get the father of the child to wank into a glass, and then the poor suffering pregnant woman could drink it.

It is easy to read posts differently I think! Maybe I got it wrong there

elinor I like your turn of phrase! "God, they really will make up any old shit to get a blow job won't they? " marvellous.

I was also told that spunk is good for your skin. Also that it is very nutritious. [rolly eyes emoticon]

I thought it was pretty widely accepted that morning sickness (what a misnomer, mine was every waking moment for 20 weeks!) was strongly correlated to high levels of pregnancy hormone (HcG). In fact there is evidence to show that women who are very sick have a lower risk of miscarriage than women who are not. This correlation is so strong that apparently women who throw up are less likely still to miscarry than women who just feel sick all the time (gee, thanks!).

Of course hyperemesis has its own risks.

This research sounds like - forgive me - bollocks.

I have occasionally wondered what real research has gone/is going into hyperemesis/morning sickness. I certainly don't want to ask in the Pregnancy area because that would be very insensitive.

I have read that it's an evolutionary thing, so that pregnant women don't eat something that's possibly injurious to the baby. But I've also read that it's something to do with one of the pregnancy hormones affecting the smell receptors in the nose which then affects the sense of taste.

"Ordinary" morning sickness is sometimes a bit of a joke to someone who's never experienced it; and very few people realise that it can be bad enough to require hospitalisation.

As others have mentioned, the medical professional referred to in the CBS article is a psychologist, not an obstetrician, and the 2000 abstract is about pre-eclampsia. Which is another pregnancy-related condition that needs more research.

And if both those conditions are related to the presence of foreign matter (i.e. paternal DNA) then there needs to also be a scientific explanation as to how humankind has managed to survive so long, and why other primates don't seem to have the same problems (from what I gather from captive breeding programmes for endangered species).

The hypothesis that some of our pregnancy hazards could be prevented just by swallowing sperm is repugnant as well as being scientifically simplistic.

I spent most of my pregnancies hospitalised with hyperemesis, it started at 4 weeks, and went right through until a day after delivery. I was ill enough to be on a drip for most of it.

Any man attempting that would have received a severe acid burn, shortly before my teeth snapped through his bloody cock.

Is this guy's wife pregnant by any chance?

Hahahahahahaha, only a man would think of this one! I told DH about this earlier, and he thought it was odd too.

Like somedayma I think it's more likely the developing placenta (given that morning sickness generally starts when the placenta starts to develop) that causes sickness.

I feel sorry for those who suffer with hyperemesis, I've been lucky to only have had normal morning sickness and that is always the worst bit. I wonder if this research took into account those who have suffered with hyperemesis? Probably not, as I doubt it would have supported their theory.

Fuck me a pig just flew past my window!
Sorry, yes, back to reality and semen curing morning sickness. Um, not really, the thought of it is enough to make me go from feeling mildly nauseous, to actually throwing up. Thanks for that Gallup.

Hmmm well this man is a psychologist and basing his theory off a half-baked hypothesis set in vitro in a lab, not studying case studies and actual women. Based on that aside from everything including sickness+gagging = more sickness, yeah, not smart of him.

Do you think it was 'seamen don't get sickness in the morning' and he's totally misread it?

I believe it. I love to give.

Ejaculate does contain a reasonably high level of zinc, which is required for many many processes in the body, including a well-functioning immune system, so there is an incredibly minor link with ingesting it and having clear skin. Equally though, the more semen that blokes lose (teen wanking, for e.g.), the more spotty they could become as their immune system suffers for lack of zinc...

But it's a bit unlikely, because quite frankly zinc is found in numerous real foods (unless said teen/bloke is wanking 3+ times a day, in which case zinc depletion is a possibility!)

I'd sooner swallow raw oysters than spunk though (and they make me gag too) as they're another good source of zinc.

sole.

Didn't someone link to a somewhat repulsive site for Semen recipes? The whole thing was bizarre (dinner parties with freshly produced ejaculate).