A few months ago, a British man came to the hospital suffering from a rare symptom: he suffered an uncontrollable series of sneezes every time he thought about sex . Your reaction could be more frequent than we imagine, according to a medical study published today in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine .
According to the ENT specialist Mahmood Bhutta, co-author of the article, "the sneeze reflex is an evolutionary relic in the connections of a region of our nervous system called the autonomic nervous system." According to Bhutta, since this nerve area controls physiological responses that are beyond our control, such as the heartbeat or the dilation of the pupil, it is possible that a crossing of signals causes sex and sneezing to be linked in certain people.
To search for more cases like his patient's, Bhutta did research on the internet. And he discovered testimonials from at least 17 men and women who had confessed to sneezing immediately after having sexual thoughts, or even after an orgasm.
The researcher suspects that the connection between the sneeze reflex and sexual arousal could be an inherited genetic fault , more frequent in members of the same family, although as it is a taboo subject, the strange phenomenon would have gone unnoticed.
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