Fellatio reduces incidence of Pre-eclampsia?

Fellatio, or "blow-job", is oral sex performed on the penis (as if you did not already know!). I was browsing the net and came across this journal that claimed fellatio with subsequent ingestion of semen reduces the incidence of pre-eclampsia.

But before you strip your partner's southern region naked, you must be wondering what the heck pre-eclampsia is. Pre-eclampsia is a condition of hypertension (high blood pressure of 140/90 mmHg and above) during second half of pregnancy, typically accompanied by proteinuria (passage of relatively high amount protein in the urine) with/without oedema (bodily swelling).The cause of pre-eclampsia remains unclear, although aberrant trophoblastic tissue and immune mechanisms have been implicated. Untreated pre-eclampsia can cause foetal death, maternal multi-system organ failure, vaginal bleeding, and seizure. Conventional treatment of pre-eclampsia is to admit the mother into a hospital, and medication given to control her blood pressure. Ultimately, the doctors would have to deliver the baby as delivery is the only way to bring the mother's blood pressure back to normal.But what if there's a way to prevent this from happening in the first place? No needles, no tablets, no surgeries, no pain, and most important of all, comes packed with erotic fun and pleasure with your partner!

The study by Koelman et. al. titled "Correlation between Oral Sex and a Low Incidence of Pre-eclampsia: A Role for Soluble HLA in Seminal Fluid" found that oral sex and swallowing of sperm is correlated with lower incidences of pre-eclampsia! Neat discovery aye?!Before you rush to get hold of that therapeutic fluid, the last line of the study abstract also stated that "An extension of the present study is necessary to verify this hypothesis". Ooops did the warning came too late?Bet you didn't know blow-job has health benefits (provided safe technique is observed). There's always a risk of sexually-transmitted infection, mind ya! You wouldn't want your oral cavity to look like our mate in the photo above, so say no promiscuity aight?! Should anyone wanna find out more on fellatio, you know, how to improve your fellatio prowess, there's a book written on it too:Imagine, if further studies verify that fellatio and sperm-drinking actually reduces incidences of pre-eclampsia, O&G specialists will go around telling patient "Give your hubby a blow-job and make sure you swallow his cum, twice daily for a fortnight before attempting conception". Or, "Drink a tablespoon of your husband's sperm everynight before going to bed". Eww, *shudders* I feel disgusted already.

Just in case the links to the study mentioned above didn't work, here's the study abstract by Koelman et. al.:

The involvement of immune mechanisms in the aetiology of preeclampsia is often suggested. Normal pregnancy is thought to be associated with a state of tolerance to the foreign antigens of the fetus, whereas in preeclamptic women this immunological tolerance might be hampered. The present study shows that oral sex and swallowing sperm is correlated with a diminished occurrence of preeclampsia which fits in the existing idea that a paternal factor is involved in the occurrence of preeclampsia. Because pregnancy has many similarities with transplantation, we hypothesize that induction of allogeneic tolerance to the paternal HLA molecules of the fetus may be crucial. Recent data suggest that exposure, and especially oral exposure to soluble HLA (sHLA) or HLA derived peptides can lead to transplantation tolerance. Similarly, sHLA antigens, that are present in the seminal plasma, might cause tolerance in the mother to paternal antigens. In order to test whether this indeed may be the case, we investigated whether sHLA antigens are present in seminal plasma. Using a specific ELISA we detected sHLA class I molecules in seminal plasma. The level varied between individuals and was related to the level in plasma. Further studies showed that these sHLA class I molecules included classical HLA class I alleles, such as sHLA-A2, -B7, -B51, -B35 and sHLA-A9. Preliminary data show lower levels of sHLA in seminal plasma in the preeclampsia group, although not significantly different from the control group. An extension of the present study is necessary to verify this hypothesis.