The Benefits of Oral Sex and Swallowing

I stumbled across this a few days ago: about 10 years ago there was a study that suggested that women who swallow semen are quite substantially less likely to develop pre-eclampsia (a complication of pregnancy involving high blood pressure). And it would appear that the evidence in favour of this suggestion has been mounting. anyway, if anyone out there is feeling a bit intellectual, here's the original paper.
Another reason to get your girl to take a facial and then swallow.

:-)

The final sentence of the paper says it all.

Great news for me...if I ever decide to have children!

Thnx, prrp. I downloaded a copy and plan to show it to my gf. As a nursing student, she'll be able to appreciate that it's an honest-to-god real medical study--and she'll be happy to know that because she swallows, she's at less risk to suffer from preclampsia.

Did anyone think to send this along to Katie Couric? Ya think Fox News would report on this medical breakthrough? lol

It's an intriguing study. I'll post a few more in the coming days...... just to raise the tone a little. ;-)

OH. And a little rep would be nice, if you like the paper.

That is an interesting study. There have been some other recent studies on this as well. Exposure to the babies father's semen, orally or vaginally, cuts down on miscarriage rates due to the mother's body rejecting the 'foreign' tissue that is her baby (ie. half of it is the father's DNA). Women are also less likely to get breast cancer if they are exposed to semen on a regular basis.

all the more reason to love cum, eh?

it makes perfect biological sense.

Guess the bottom line is cum is good? ;)

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Originally Posted by Brian1453

That is an interesting study. There have been some other recent studies on this as well. Exposure to the babies semen, orally or vaginally, cuts down on miscarriage rates due to the mother's body rejecting the 'foreign' tissue that is her baby (ie. half of it is the father's DNA). Women are also less likely to get breast cancer if they are exposed to semen on a regular basis.

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Brian I'd be interested if you could point me to that article about semen and breast cancer. I'd like to read it for myself and I have one or two friends I'd like to to show it to - might persuade them to improve their sex lives as well as their health!

This is all very fascinating. My sister in law almost died from pre-eclampsia along with my wonderful little niece (in law?). It was quite scary. I happen to know for a fact that my sister in law does not eat cum. Sex is a rather taboo thing with my brother in law and his wife (even though they are fun people with which to hang. Not as fun as some but...). It would take more bravery than I have to forward this article to her. lol :D
Piper

I'll have a look for the semen and breast cancer thing. but meanwhile I have a real winner of an article for everyone. A chance to return the favour, so to speak.....
;-)

Another article about the benefits of sex - not just oral. Fascinating stuff.

Great news!

I just stumbled back on this discussion and saw people were interested in reading more about the connection between exposure to paternal semen and the reduced rates of miscarriages caused by pre-eclampsia. Here is some of the highlights from a good article in wikipedia and the reference articles. Look at the footnotes # 45-57 from this subject: Pre-eclampsia (http : // en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-eclampsia#cite_note-Elizabeth_Bonney-49). Be sure to read the section below in red which points out oral consumption and the digestive absorption worked best.

Here is the most relevant part:

Induction of paternal tolerance

Many studies have also suggested the importance of a woman's immunological tolerance to her baby's father, whose genes are present in the young fetus and its placenta and which may pose a challenge to her immune system.[10][43] As the theory is further investigated,[44] researchers are increasingly studying the importance of a woman's continued exposure to her partner's semen as early as several years before conception. One study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology involved several hundreds of women and found that "women with a short period of cohabitation (less than 4 months) who used barrier methods for contraception had a substantially elevated risk for the development of pre-eclampsia compared with women with more than 12 months of cohabitation before conception".[45] However, the results from a study conducted in 2004 show that the theory is still not conclusive. In that study, the researchers found that after adjustment and stratification, the effect of barrier contraceptive use on the development of pre-eclampsia had disappeared, with both arms having identical rates of pre-eclampsia.[46] Although the study has since been criticized for its subjective adjustment of data, it remains important because it demonstrates that there is still some contention over the degree to which failure of tolerance induction can be attributed to prior exposure to the partner's sperm.

Continued exposure to a partner's semen has a strong protective effect against pre-eclampsia, largely due to the absorption of several immune modulating factors present in seminal fluid.[47][48]

Long periods of sexual cohabitation with the same partner fathering a woman's child significantly decreased her chances of suffering pre-eclampsia.[45][48] As one early study described, "although pre-eclampsia is a disease of first pregnancies, the protective effect of multiparity is lost with change of partner".[49] The study also concluded that although women with changing partners are strongly advised to use condoms to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, "a certain period of sperm exposure within a stable relation, when pregnancy is aimed for, is associated with protection against pre-eclampsia".[49]

Several other studies have since investigated the strongly decreased incidence of pre-eclampsia in women who had received blood transfusions from their partner, those with long, preceding histories of sex without barrier contraceptives, and in women who had been regularly performing oral sex,[50][51] with one study concluding "induction of allogeneic tolerance to the paternal human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecules of the fetus may be crucial. Data collected strongly suggest that exposure, and especially oral exposure to soluble HLA from semen can lead to transplantation tolerance."[51]

Other studies have investigated the roles of semen in the female reproductive tracts of mice, showing that "insemination elicits inflammatory changes in female reproductive tissues",[52] concluding that the changes "likely lead to immunological priming to paternal antigens or influence pregnancy outcomes". A similar series of studies confirmed the importance of immune modulation in female mice through the absorption of specific immune factors in semen, including TGF-Beta, lack of which is also being investigated as a cause of miscarriage in women and infertility in men.

According to the theory, the fetus and placenta both contain "foreign" proteins from paternal genes, but regular, preceding and coincident exposure to the father's semen may promote immune acceptance and subsequent implantation, a process which is significantly supported by as many as 93 currently identified immune regulating factors in seminal fluid.[10][43]

Having already noted the importance of a woman's immunological tolerance to her baby's paternal genes, several Dutch reproductive biologists decided to take their research a step further. Consistent with the fact that human immune systems tolerate things better when they enter the body via the mouth, the Dutch researchers conducted a series of studies that confirmed a surprisingly strong correlation between a diminished incidence of pre-eclampsia and a woman's practice of oral sex, and noted that the protective effects were strongest if she swallowed her partner's semen.[50][51][53][54][55][56] The researchers concluded that while any exposure to a partner's semen during sexual activity appears to decrease a woman's chances for the various immunological disorders that can occur during pregnancy, immunological tolerance could be most quickly established through oral introduction and gastrointestinal absorption of semen.[51][53] Recognizing that some of the studies potentially included the presence of confounding factors, such as the possibility that women who regularly perform oral sex and swallow semen also engage in more frequent intercourse, the researchers also noted that, either way, "the data still overwhelmingly supports the main theory" behind all their studies—that repeated exposure to semen establishes the maternal immunological tolerance necessary for a safe and successful pregnancy.[48][53]

A team from the University of Adelaide has also investigated to see if men who have fathered pregnancies which have ended in miscarriage or pre-eclampsia had low seminal levels of critical immune modulating factors such as TGF-Beta. The team has found that certain men, dubbed "dangerous males", are several times more likely to father pregnancies that would end in either pre-eclampsia or miscarriage.[48] Among other things, most of the "dangerous males" seemed to lack sufficient levels of the seminal immune factors necessary to induce immunological tolerance in their partners.[57]