Can a man’s orgasm cause him to go blind, at least temporarily? A medical report explores that very question, and we explore that medical report, in this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams discusses a published orgasm/blindess study, with dramatic readings from Yale/MIT/Harvard biomedical researcher Chris Cotsapas.
For more info about what we discuss this week, go explore:
- “Postcoital Visual Loss Due to Valsalva Retinopathy,” Michaels, Luke, Naing Latt Tint, and Philip Alexander, BMJ Case Reports, epub October 23, 2014.
- The Valsalva maneuver, and its clinical implications.
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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