Is it true your girlfriend might die if you accidentally blow air in her cha-cha during sex?
This muff-diving terror tale is one of the wildest we've heard since cocaine-fortified gerbils
supposedly became the must-have anal sex toy. Too bad we can't write it off as a sick joke: A
few cases of death by going down have actually been documented. "Blowing into the vagina
could theoretically create an air embolus—a tiny bubble that can travel up the bloodstream and
block blood flow to a major organ," says Sandor Gardos, Ph.D., a San Francisco-based sex
therapist and staff sexologist (yo!) at MyPleasure.com. If that embolus cuts off blood flow
to the heart or brain, your girl could be a goner within minutes. Good God, imagine having to
explain that one to her mother...
Though it's theoretically possible, death could happen only under a confluence of
circumstances rather than a Kevin Costner blockbuster. First, your girlfriend would
have to be pregnant. "If an air bubble manages to form in the vagina, it'll
likely stay there harmlessly, closed off to the rest of your body by the cervix,"
Gardos says. In pregnant chicks, however, the cervix is dilated, giving the air
bubble an escape route. Your mouth would also have to be virtually vacuum-sealed
around the opening of her tube, so the air couldn't escape out of that end, either.
Third, you'd have to blow really hard to form a lethal bubble in the first place.
How hard? "As if you were blowing up a balloon," he adds.
You tell 'em, doc. Bottom line: Average Joe's who like to tongue-twist the gentler
sex to kingdom come have nothing to fear.
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