Postorgasmic illness syndrome

While watching my favourite make-fun-of-morons show, The Soup, I saw a clip that astounded me.

There is an affliction called postorgasmic illness syndrome (POIS), which purportedly causes one in 100 men to suffer debilitating illness after ejaculating.

How have I never heard of this? I would imagine if this illness is as widespread as many sites claim, there would be ads for POIS support groups covering light poles in every city. While I doubt it affects as many men as claimed, a little research uncovered this forum on Naked Science.

So, to the sufferers of POIS, I say, I feel for you; just don’t let anyone literally feel you unless you want to be sick.

Algonquin College journalism grad. Podcaster @qqcpod.

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