Lemon Juice can be a KILLER.........warning: sexual content!!

EROS · Oct 9, 2002

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian scientists believe they have rediscovered an effective use for lemon juice -- as a contraceptive and also a killer of the AIDS virus.

Reproductive physiologist Roger Short, from the University of Melbourne's obstetrics department, said a few drops of lemon juice can be a cheap, easy-to-use solution to protect women from both HIV and pregnancy.

The juice should be squeezed onto a piece of sponge or cotton wool and placed into the ****** before sex, he said.

"We can show in the lab that lemon juice is very effective in immobilizing human sperm and also very effective in killing HIV," Short told Australian Broadcasting Corp television in a science program to be shown later on Thursday.

He said lime juice, which has similar acid levels, can also be used, with both fruits often freely available in poor countries where contraception is hard to come by.

Short said laboratory tests found not only does lemon juice kill sperm, it also kills the AIDS virus itself.

Short said using lemon juice as a contraceptive was not a new idea but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

The ancient douche-style contraceptive was encouraged by such luminaries as Casanova, renowned for his sexual prowess.

"About 300 years ago, Mediterranean women used lemon juice as their main method of contraception."

newmousecateer · Oct 9, 2002

Lemonade, anyone?

Seriously EROS, that is very inteesting. As a Dr., do you honestly believe in that?

browneyes · Oct 9, 2002

I'd have to read more research than that to believe it 100%.

caitycaity · Oct 9, 2002

interesting...thanks for posting.

Serena · Oct 9, 2002

I am not touching this subject.

EROS · Oct 9, 2002

"Barrier methods to prevent the upward passage of spermatozoa in the female genital tract have been advocated for centuries. For thousands of years, women have used naturally occurring sponges, sea sponges, sometimes impregnated with substances such as acids which are themselves spermicidal.

In the Middle Ages, women commonly would divide a lemon in half and place that in the *******, which was an early form of a diaphragm. It would both provide a physical barrier to sperm, and also the citric acid would create a hostile environment which would be spermicidal.

Later, ******* pessaries of crocodile manure were used in Egypt more than three thousand years ago."

fireplug · Oct 9, 2002

The only 100% method of birth control is abstinence. So even if juice is only 75% and still kills Hiv virus, it seems to be good information to get out especially in developing countries where aids is so prevalent.

Steve

Bob O · Oct 10, 2002

Would swallowing work as a contraceptive????

EROS · Oct 10, 2002

Originally posted by Bob O
Would swallowing work as a contraceptive????

LOL

..............BOB, you'd better keep the day job chasing down the bad guys :cool:

.........

Bob O · Oct 10, 2002

Come on eros, i was just trying to learn something from our ex-pres!!!

olena · Oct 10, 2002

Thanks, EROS.....

As for the manure, I'll pass.

EROS · Oct 10, 2002

Looks like the DIS censors are "on the march" once again. Apparently human anatomical terms are intolerable on the DIS :rolleyes:

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****** ........a canal in a female mammal that leads from the uterus to the external orifice of the genital canal

KozmicLee · Oct 10, 2002

Lemon juice?? Feel the burn! :eek:

minniecarousel · Oct 10, 2002

It'd be great if people will use it. (the lemon juice, not the manure!) Any type of protection from AIDS is welcome news. What are the chances that this would catch on in the countries that could really use it?