Wendy Zukerman

Yeah, it appears she was caught in the act.

All of this must have happened quickly.

It couldn't have just been sitting in the stomach.

Because then sperm would have been dead.

Absolutely.

It has to have happened very fast.

The swallow.

And then, so we know saliva is a nicer pH for sperm.

We also know that seminal fluid is not acidic.

It's actually a little bit basic.

So maybe the two of them acted like a coating to protect the sperm.

On top of that, eating food can lower the acidity in your stomach.

So maybe if she'd had a big meal before all this happened...

That somehow the sperm survives.

And one thing that Neil read in the case report made him think that maybe this did all happen quickly.

So what the case report actually says is that her stomach was empty when she had surgery.

But Neil, knowing what he knows about medicine, reckons that that could be from vomiting.

So maybe what happens is she swallows the sperm and it's somehow protected in the saliva and the seminal fluid.

And then maybe she vomits and that act of vomiting propels a tiny bit of sperm

out into the little hole in the stomach that the stab wound created.