The World's Tidiest Orgasm?

A couple earlier posts here (and one on our lubricious sister site Sex Drive Daily) looked at a male contraceptive pill that's under development in the U.K.

News stories didn't make it clear if the proposed pill would just stop sperm in its tracks -- sperm is just a tiny part of an ejaculation, so guys might not notice -- or bring a halt to the entire Semen Production Industrial Complex.

Christopher Smith, a senior lecturer with King's College London's Guy's College (isn't that name appropriate) emailed with the answer. Check it out after the jump.

Smith writes:

It stops (though we didn’t initially assume so) all ejaculate... by blocking the pump mechanism. Orgasm is not about the fluid but the mental processes that lead and drive ejaculation; these are not changed. I agree than many people love the actual physical sticky outcome –- but we understand that many don’t, not least those who receive infected ejaculates.

Thanks to Smith for that. (And I don't know about you, but that last sentence would be a great alternative to a cold shower if you ever need an instant erotic buzz-kill.)

[Update, 11:35 p.m. ET 12/1: A few folks have wondered what might happen if semen were to, well, back up because ejaculation wasn't possible. Perhaps the fact that the pill's effects are temporary might stop everything from going haywire over time.

I've emailed the researcher about that and will post the answer to the main Bodyhack site. That's where, by the way, you can find a story about how refrigerator magnets can be deadly. Seriously.]