For all of the very special men out there who seem to constantly find themselves breaking out in flu-like symptoms immediately following an orgasm, fear not, because as it turns out you’re only suffering from a medical condition known as: being awesome. Actually, it’s called POIS, which stands for post orgasmic illness syndrome -meaning that you won the genetic jackpot and are allergic to your own semen. Say whaaaaa-?
Although POIS has been mentioned around the scientific water cooler for over nine years now, up until recently no one had ever been able to show a direct correlation between patients who suffered from the allergy and the patient’s semen. Enter Marcel Waldinger, a professor of sexual psychopharmacology at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, who also happens to be the brave frontiersmen who decided that more scientists should be studying semen.
[…] the researchers pricked the skin of 33 POIS-diagnosed men with their own diluted semen, and discovered that nearly 90 percent of them had allergic reactions as a result.
[…] Such men, after ejaculating, not only have burning eyes and fever-like feelings that can last for a week, but also feel as tired as post-marathon runners and have noses that run faster
Hmmm, suddenly I feel as if I shouldn’t be complaining so loudly about this damn hangnail. Waldinger claims his semen-based research is important, because it disproves the long standing belief that POIS symptoms were psychologically influenced. But don’t think for a second that Marcel is done injecting people with their own sperm, he’s already hard at work trying to defeat post orgasmic illness syndrome through a new kind of treatment called hyposensitization therapy. Oh man, I can only guess what the f**k this must entail…
As part of this therapy, men were injected with their own semen in evermore concentrated strains over the course of three years, which the researchers found gradually reduced their post-orgasmic symptoms.
I really, really, really hope that dudes were heavily compensated for their time and dedication to getting regular semen injections for three whole years. Kind of makes me want to start producing a brand of POIS-influenced rubber bracelets. I mean, can you imagine? A future where no one has to worry about breaking out in a flu after orgasming? It’s out there people, you just have to believe.
[via DiscoverMagazine]