the heart of the matter is the willingness to adapt for your partner.
The willingness to adapt without disabling but supporting each other is a
beautiful thing! It's about love and responsibility and a better life together!
~~~~~Sexually Transmitted Food Allergens
The abstract sort of says it all: woman has known allergy, boyfriend
eats allergen,
they have sex and girl has allergic reaction. For the
uninitiated, the skin-prick testing
thing might seem a bit weird – they
got samples from the boyfriend before and after
he ate brazil nuts
(masturbation for science!) and injected them under the girlfriend’s
skin
but this is a standard allergy test. Allergists already do this
with bread mold and ground up
dust mites, so I guess semen should be any
stranger, but I still raised an eyebrow.
If there’s an allergic
reaction, after thirty minutes or so, the area around the skin prick
will develop a characteristic “wheal and flare,” which is a raised lump
at the site of the prick
(the wheal) and a reddish circle of
inflammation surrounding it (the flare).
If you have an allergy, but you don’t know the cause, allergists will
draw a grid on your
back and inject a standard battery of allergens. I
know from experience that this is an
unpleasant procedure, especially
when they don’t find anything and decide that the shallow
pricks on the
back weren’t enough, so they opt to inject a few other allergens deeper
in
your shoulder… but I digress. These doctors found that the woman responded to her
boyfriends semen after he had eaten brazil nuts.
