Think Sex, Sneeze More?

(WebMD)  Sure, you sneeze when you've got a cold. But some sneezes may happen just by thinking about sex or having an orgasm, British doctors report.

Mahmood Bhutta, a specialist in ear-nose-and-throat surgery at England's Wexham Park Hospital, writes of a colleague who once had a patient who "described uncontrollable fits of sneezing" immediately after having any sexual thought.

That patient, who was a middle-aged man, had no other symptoms. He said he'd had those sneezing fits immediately after thinking sexual thoughts throughout his adult life.

Bhutta and his colleague decided to do a little research, and they figured that since the condition might be embarrassing, it might not get reported - except in Internet chat rooms.

So the researchers googled "sex, sneeze, OR sneezing" twice in 2007, and came up with reports by 17 people - men and women - who reported sneezing right after thinking sexual thoughts, and reports by three people of sneezing after orgasm.

Long before the Internet - back in the 19th century - there were reports of rare people who sneezed when sexually excited, but "there was no credible reason given for the phenomenon," Bhutta's team writes.

Bhutta's paper doesn't settle why some people sneeze when they think sexual thoughts or when they have an orgasm. But the researchers suggest that sexual thoughts or orgasm might trigger the body's subconscious nervous system, which could lead to sneezing in some people.

The report appears in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
By Miranda Hitti
Reviewed by Louise Chang
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[tonyr433-2009]

Although this seems quite amusing, I think there just may be a reason for finding out why this strange phenomenon occurs. I''ve always sneezed three times in a row. I''ve often wondered why that is.

[xxunknown]

This is strange.. because my senior year in college, i''''d lived alone because my room mate graduated before me. And I started masttterbbating a lot. I mean I''''m talking some pretty serious fits of bliss. And I had a sneezing fit that lasted a whole day afterwards. AND, I''''d went to the emergency room because I thought something crawled in my ear. During final exams I''''d been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I didn''''t tell anybody.. I was terrified. Didn''''t study? Took all my exams by guesswork. Graduated.. with a 2.2.
Posted by william7721
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Dude thats the funniest post I have read in a while. He he he. Achoo.

[harp1963]

So glad I''m not British.

[caldwellptr]

I usually sneeze three or four times in a row.

[wl7bzh]

Don''t play with your nose.

[mainedoggie]

what a load of bunk.

"researchers" googled *** and sneezing?

Please. Next story.

[notmudrose1]

now we know why bush always has that goofy smile. cheney has his nose up bush''s azz.

[notmudrose1]

my dog watched a viagra commercial on tv and started sneezing.

[notmudrose1]

my dog sneezes when it looks in the mirror!

[docpeter1953]

That explains everything. Dang it, I just thought I had really bad hayfever for the past 30 years or so. My nose is calloused over from wiping it all the time. Oh well, guess the callouses will have to stay there, and I will keep on sneezing.