Fish dinner leads to very unpleasant sexual side effects

kinston ^ | March 27, 2009

[JoeProBono]

Eat fish, have painful sex? That’s what happened to six unlucky people in North Carolina who got food poisoning with a very rare side effect, the CDC reported Thursday in its weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report.

The six were guests at a dinner party in June 2007 where amberjack fish from a local fish market was served. The fish they ate had been caught in the Florida Keys. Like all predatory ocean-going fish in that region, amberjack can sometimes contain a naturally occurring toxin called ciguatera which comes from local algae and is bio-accumulated up the food chain.

Ciguatera fish poisoning causes nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps or diarrhea, along with neurological symptoms including fatigue, muscle pain, itching and tingling. It also causes some distinctive symptoms, with the best known being a reversal of hot and cold sensation, so people who have it perceive hot as cold and cold as hot. The symptoms can persist for months.

But the dinner guests in North Carolina had an even more surprising symptom, one only rarely described in the scientific literature. The two men and four women all reported painful sexual intercourse. For the men it took the form of painful ejaculation with sex. For at least one it lasted a full week. The women described a burning sensation during intercourse that lasted between five minutes and three hours afterward. Two of them reported that burning sensations with intercourse continued for a month.

[Slings and Arrows]

In fairness, it’s a little hard to tell from that tiny GIF.

[Trillian]

I looked at your tagline and thought I saw a closed mouth gathers no fish LOL.. must be the picture.

[mad_as_he$$]

lol. Debt paid in full!

[wildbill]

They were probably drunk to the gills and need to scale it back.

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe someone slipped ‘em a mickey fin.