As if you needed another reason ...

[TE999]

Oral sex is a cure for morning sickness in pregnant women. Mmmmm ...semen.

Story here: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/08/10/study-oral-sex-cures-morning-sickness/

 

[Boxlicker101]

I have some doubts about that, partly because the pontificator is not actually an MD and would have litle expertise in medical matters.

However, I'm not going to discourage anybody from trying the therapy.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

His specialty is in evolutionary behavior type stuff, so it's completely within his realm of study, I would think. The better point is that theory hasn't been tested, at all--it's just a theory he put forward.

A much better discussion of the theory, including his older work, is here (about halfway down the page):

http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...rning_sickness_can_more_sex_help_.single.html


I have my doubts. And annoyances, as it seems that this will be yet another thing that falls squarely in the "well, pregnant lady, you wouldn't have had morning sickness/a miscarriage/birth defects/a problematic labor if you'd followed rules 1-2,673 while pregnant."

 

[3113]

Oral sex is a cure for morning sickness in pregnant women. Mmmmm ...semen.

Waitaminute! You mean this guy thinks morning sickness can be cured if the pregnant lady goes down on her guy and swallows?

And here I thought it was going to say that her morning sickness can be cured if her thoughtful partner goes down on her, giving her too much pleasure to feel ill... Silly me. What guy would recommend that?

And exactly how is this supposed to help women who've been artificially inseminated as they can't ingest the semen of the father?

 

[Dianthus]

Waitaminute! You mean this guy thinks morning sickness can be cured if the pregnant lady goes down on her guy and swallows?

And here I thought it was going to say that her morning sickness can be cured if her thoughtful partner goes down on her, giving her too much pleasure to feel ill... Silly me. What guy would recommend that?

And exactly how is this supposed to help women who've been artificially inseminated as they can't ingest the semen of the father?

^That. Or widowed. Or abandoned. Is this an evolutionary thing that makes the guy stick around, if possible?

I like 3113's cure better, gotta say.

 

[Thefamiliar]

Saltine crackers work as well.

The problem, if a woman feels like puking, sucking a guy off will most likely enduce the puke before she finnishes him off...

I suppose he could cum in a cup but what fun is that?

That amused me greatly thank you. Lol

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

And exactly how is this supposed to help women who've been artificially inseminated as they can't ingest the semen of the father?

No, it's not just oral sex--the theory is that any exposure to the father's sperm--including past exposure--will do the trick.

But yes, if his theory is correct, then those who have been artificially inseminated will have the worst "morning" sickness, and that those who have never used barrier methods will have very little. The theory also suggests that each pregnancy should result in less "morning" sickness.

Edit to include quote from Slate:

So what does Gallup say is the real culprit behind nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy? Semen. More specifically, unfamiliar semen. To understand where he’s coming from, we need to think back to the maternal immune system’s response to the fetus. Because half of the DNA the fetus is carrying comes from the father, the mother’s body may initially treat the organism as foreign tissue or an infection. This response, Gallup says, triggers an immune reaction that is commonly experienced as nausea, vomiting, and malaise (aka morning sickness). The best cure for this type of sickness, says Gallup, is, strangely enough, the same thing as its cause. The more exposure a woman has to her partner’s semen—that is to say, the more often she’s inseminated prior to conception and during the early stages of the pregnancy—the more tolerance her body develops to his genetic material. This tolerance generalizes to a tolerance for the fetus and leads to successful maternal immunosuppression—and subsequently allows her to feel less like an infected zombie with serious stomach troubles.

Here is where Gallup’s reputation as an innovative—if often highly speculative—evolutionary theorist comes into the picture. Gallup surmises that pregnancy sickness is not itself an adaptation, but instead a side effect of a broader maternal adaptation for favoring the best possible mates. He suggests that this broader adaptation serves primarily to facilitate reproduction with males that are likely to support mother and child (in evolutionary terms, to invest in the offspring), while weeding out the players. In previous work, Gallup has shown that women are more likely to develop preeclampsia—and thus have a higher infant mortality risk—in pregnancies resulting from unfamiliar semen. Historically, these would have included rape and “dishonest mating strategies” (tactics in which the man lies to the woman about his long-term intentions just to get into her pants) as well as unplanned conception occurring in a new, still-fragile relationship. From the point of view of Mother Nature’s cold, cold heart, spontaneous abortions due to a reaction against unfamiliar semen might have been biologically adaptive. This is because conception and childbirth historically meant that a woman foreclosed on any other reproductive opportunities for 2 to 4 years, so pregnancies in which paternal investment was improbable would have meant an enormous gamble. Today, however, technological innovations such as barrier contraceptives (condoms reduce a woman’s exposure to semen that would otherwise become familiar) and artificial insemination mimic some ancestral conditions. The maternal immune system has no way to distinguish between, say, conception by in vitro fertilization and rape.

Gallup’s evolutionary reinterpretation of pregnancy sickness is quite new—so new, in fact, that it hasn’t been put to a test. But at the 2012 meeting of the Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society in Plymouth, N.H., he and graduate student Jeremy Atkinson laid out a set of explicit predictions that, if borne out by data, would support their model and may lead scholarship away from the traditional embryo-protection account. First, the authors predict that the intensity of pregnancy sickness should be directly proportional to the frequency of insemination by the child’s father. “Risk factors for morning sickness,” they reason, “should include condom use, infrequent insemination, and not being in a committed relationship.” In fact, Gallup and Atkinson believe that lesbians with little (if any) previous exposure to semen who are impregnated by artificial insemination should have some of the worst cases of nausea and vomiting. Also, pregnancy sickness should wane in severity from one consecutive pregnancy to the next, but only assuming that the same man sires each successive offspring. By contrast, a change in paternity between offspring should reinstate pregnancy sickness.

 

[Stella_Omega]

His specialty is in evolutionary behavior type stuff, so it's completely within his realm of study, I would think. The better point is that theory hasn't been tested, at all--it's just a theory he put forward.

A much better discussion of the theory, including his older work, is here (about halfway down the page):

http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...rning_sickness_can_more_sex_help_.single.html


I have my doubts. And annoyances, as it seems that this will be yet another thing that falls squarely in the "well, pregnant lady, you wouldn't have had morning sickness/a miscarriage/birth defects/a problematic labor if you'd followed rules 1-2,673 while pregnant."

Evolutionary behaviorism, That explains it all. I wish there was an evolutionary explanation for the self-serving things these men come up with, but there isn't. This kind of selfish wish fulfilment is purely cultural influence.

The comments are great.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Morning sickness is Natures way of letting you know youre eating shit that can harm your baby. So it makes sense that if youre sucking down a lil hair from the dog that bit ya youre likely eating as much of the bad food.

 

[Thefamiliar]

Morning sickness is Natures way of letting you know youre eating shit that can harm your baby. So it makes sense that if youre sucking down a lil hair from the dog that bit ya youre likely eating as much of the bad food.

Where did you hear that? Inquiring minds want to know.

That really makes me go hmm because I craved healthy foods like crazy for both my pregnancies. Fruits and veggies, milk etc. I had morning sickness the first trimester with each. Some women never get it...so I ofcourse am questioning the validity of such a belief.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Where did you hear that? Inquiring minds want to know.

That really makes me go hmm because I craved healthy foods like crazy for both my pregnancies. Fruits and veggies, milk etc. I had morning sickness the first trimester with each. Some women never get it...so I ofcourse am questioning the validity of such a belief.

The first half of the Slate article I linked to includes an overview of that hypotheses--it's called the Hook-Profet embryo-protection hypothesis, apparently.

 

[Thefamiliar]

lol well think the guy is just reaching to far.

I wonder if the consumption of saline would also cure morning sickness.

On a more serious note, salt seems to help with nausea, pregnant or not. The link of sperm possibly working to ease the condition isn't really that far fetched. Though, it seems that any seman should work, if it really would be salt or sugars that settle the stomach.

Another cure for upset stomach, nausea or vomiting is the syrup from canned peaches. A wonderful cure for children, and much easier to swallow for anyone.

Truth is, the quick change of hormone levels and adjusting to physical changes is the most likely culprate of morning sickness. While testing the side effects of increased estrogen, hcg and the like could actually be harmfull to non pregnant persons, we have no good way to prove hormones are the cause.