In 1978, a team of scientists succeeded in proving that "vaginal malodor" among women using the contraceptive sponge is caused by sperm—specifically, the components sperm breaks down into after having been killed by spermicide. That's the interesting part. The funny part, as pointed out by blogger Scicurious, is imagining the awkward lives of the grad students involved in this study. Money quote: "Hey, go put this is in, get it on, and come back immediately, please, we'll need that spunk."
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9:36 am Sat
Apr 17, 2010
Sometimes, "lady funk" is caused by sperm
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Is this the “Saturday Morning Science Experiment”? Where is the YouTube clip?
Where’s the unicorn after that?
Having just read Mary Roach’s “Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex” this seems like a pretty straightforward study compared to what many test subjects have endured over the decades. (My favorite part was when they got a couple of acrobats to have sex inside an MRI machine.)
Okay – I’ll admit it: I’m a typical guy. Once the conversation turns clinical, I no longer want to talk about vaginas.
Next week – The Physics of Goatse: Can the inside diameter of a torus exceed the outside diameter?
“Next week – The Physics of Goatse: Can the inside diameter of a torus exceed the outside diameter?”
The Goatse TARDIS!
Not to mention the conversational possibilities Friday evening at the bar!
“So what’s your research about?”
“I sniff vages after other guys have shot their loads in them.”
Ew! I’d think it would get re-absorbed into the body after dying. Or expelled by the natural mucous cleansing process. Sexy stuff, right? But that process is why you don’t need douches, and why they can actually cause harm- they remove the moisture in the vagina that naturally keeps it clean and happy. As for funkiness? Maybe if the sperm had disease in it, one of those infection-causing diseases. And it had been there a long time, to actually cause some kind of discharge.. Or a yeast infection. Or heavily spiced food. Or old tampons. You don’t even want to know what happens if one of them gets left out there. I know, and I wish I didn’t @.@ ! Lets just say, major funk to the tenth power, and really gross festering liquid drainage.
Medicine is fun! x.x
I keep misreading this somehow as ‘vaginal matador.’
Rob, I’m trying not to make a sexist joke that involves vanquishing an emotionally volatile beast and a red piece of cotton.
Isn’t “Lady Funk” a band?
Is there a woman who used The Sponge in the late 80s and early 90s who didn’t figure this out?
reCaptcha: rham for. Insert Beavis and Butthead heh heh heh…he said rham.
Seriously? They needed a study to figure this out?
In a sense, is not everything human “caused by sperm”? Indirectly?