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Josh Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

It's like pulling that spaghetti through your nose and out your mouth.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

No, I've never tried to do stuff like that.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

I've never tried either.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

There's also a group of people who sneeze when they become sexually aroused.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

Yeah, that's a thing apparently.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

Or if you orgasm, like after you orgasm, it could trigger a sneezing fit.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

Yeah, it's apparently a bigger group than you would expect.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

Some researcher went around to Internet chat rooms and said, hey, does anybody sneeze when they become aroused or when they have an orgasm?

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

And she found 17 people who sneezed from sexual ideation and three who sneezed from orgasm, which is, that is way more than I would expect from just going around on Internet chat rooms and asking people, you know?

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

Yeah, and also, we should point out, way not scientific research.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

But yeah, anecdotally, it's still impressive.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

But I read an explanation for this.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

It's a terrible explanation, but it's an explanation by the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

It's an Indian journal, coincidentally enough.

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

They suggest that it's because the nose contains erectile tissue, right?

Stuff You Should Know
How Sneezing Works

which it does, which erectile tissue is just tissue that can become larger, engorged by blood flow.