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From: wurzelma@aecom.UUCP (John Wurzelmann)
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Subject: Re: Re: Coke isn't it (for contraception)
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Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 13:40:44 EST
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> There's something of a difference between a  controlled  medical  procedure
> and  a hasty rinse with a soft drink.  In various human sexuality courses I
> was taught one should _never_ blow into a woman's vagina because of a  very
> real  possibility  of lethal embolism.  I've heard of cases where the woman
> died within _3 seconds_ of having this done to her.
> 
			The story about blowing into women's vaginas is
true, but applies only to pregnant women whose circulatory system can be
broached via the decidua basalis, where it attaches to the placenta. This
also requires air administered at higher pressure than coke fizz. Finally
no one is realistically proposing that Coke be used as contraception, even
though the fact of the matter is, that it is used for just this purpose
in some third world countries, and that there have not, to my knowledge, been
any fatalities or cerbrovascular accidents reported as a result.

					      John Wurzelmann