Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site zehntel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!zehntel!zinfandel!joe From: joe@zinfandel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Sperm causing immunologic suppressio Message-ID: <1733@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 04:19:22 EST Article-I.D.: zehntel.1733 Posted: Fri Jan 4 04:19:22 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 02:46:33 EST Sender: berry@zehntel.UUCP Organization: Zehntel Automation Systems Inc, Walnut Creek CA Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #N:zinfandel:22100002:000:645 Nf-From: zinfandel!joe Jan 2 16:09:00 1985 Jan 2 '85 While serving as a prosective juror I chanced on an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association ( Jan. 17 '84 ) which describes a study done that associates decreases in immunological response with anal reception of sperm. Putative factors include the known immune inhibiting characteristics of sperm and the fragility and permeability of internal anal tissue as opposed to either oral or vaginal tissue. The test included both male and female recipients, and similarly active subjects that did not recieve sperm anally. I offer this as both a reference and as grist for the mill.