Odd-ball, Weird or Funny, but Spermicide Coke Wins Alternative Nobel Prize
Odd-ball green news it may be but Coke has been discovered to be an effective spermicide, which may be good for the environment; and for that very elaborate effort of discovery, a woman’s sexuality expert has just been awarded an alternative Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Weird or wacky, you might say, but rumor actually has it that Snopes.com might soon bring down this link that debunked the long suspected (was it an urban legend until the Ig Nobel Prize?) but now confirmed sperm killing effects of the famous Coca Cola soft drink.
Deborah Anderson, a Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and colleagues, Sharee A. Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico, Joseph A. Hill of The Fertility Centers of New England, shared the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery.
Oddly, Chuang-Ye Hong of Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang (all of Taiwan) shared the prize with them for contradicting coke’s spermicidal properties.
Yes, don’t throw out those birth control pills just yet. Although Coke may have limited spermicidal effects, the Taiwan research team found even an hour after jumping in the soda bath, many of those little guys were still swimming happily around. Ergo, the most effective use of soda as a spermicide is still as a drink to wash down the birth control pill.
Now, if Coke as a contraceptive or a birth control douche drink isn’t weird enough, the Ig Nobel Prizes also reveal that Shakira, the Colombian diva, might have been right about gyrations from the middle.
University of New Mexico professors, Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan, won the Economics prize for discovering that a professional lap dancer’s ovulatory cycle affects her tip earnings! So hips don’t lie is true?
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The sugar content alone is enough to make me give it a thumbs down. If I’m not going to drink it, I’m definitely not to go use it in my most intimately body parts!
This Nobel prize was a parody; a joke. It was part of the IG Nobels, and it is not a real discovery.
You know, don’t you, the Fugs song, from 1967, called Coca Cola Douche?
Scary this publication,
because we all get taught in highschool (Europe) that it is just one of the many myths, and using the cola-douche WILL GET YOU PREGNANT.
Cola is definitely NOT a spermicide, not matter what kind of wishfull thinking you add to it.
Use the goo that was designed to do this job.
(the stuf called “spermacide”, not the stuf labelled “softdrink”)
Only drinking cola instead of having sex might help.
With the extreme low level of sexeducation around the globe, this is one story that should not be encouraged.
Yes, it should be noted that these are mock scientific prizes. Soda may have some spermicidal properties, but then again just about everything is a spermicide–even time!
The article now hopefully makes it clear that partners should NOT rely on soda douches as a form of contraception.
In fact, douches may even push sperm from the sperm pool (which gathers after sex) toward the egg… certainly not achieving the desired effect.
For a fun bit of sex edutainment, take a look at this video.
Spermicide or not, I still love my coke for its distinctive taste but it never occured to me that it may be a sperm-killer let alone an effective one.
Urban legend has it that it may certainly have those properties and I like the way Gavin puts it - anything goes.
How’d they find that out about Coke anyway?