JULIE Boyde's wedding night was ruined when she discovered she was allergic to her husband Mike's sperm.

The couple had been lovers for two years before they got married and decided to have unprotected sex for the first time on their wedding night.

Almost immediately the bride was in unbearable pain. She found out it was because of Mike's sperm.

Plans of conceiving a baby have had to More..be abandoned reluctantly as it seems Julie's own body destroys the sperm.

Mike, 27, and Julie, 26, from Ambridge, Pennsylvania, started going out while at university and became engaged two years later, finally having a dream wedding in 2005. They wanted to consummate their union on their wedding night.

"Before we were always very careful and used protection - this time we didn't,' said Julie, 26.

"We figured, "we're married, if we get pregnant, we get pregnant".

"Pretty much right after I knew something was not right because I was in a lot of pain.

"The pain that I was feeling was inside, like somebody sticking needles up inside of me like a real painful burning.

"It was really scary."

The pain, and at times blisters, would go on for weeks, she said.

"On a scale of one to ten, it's pretty much ten," she said, describing the pain.

After numerous medical tests, the couple were eventually told that Julie suffers from seminal plasma hypersensitivity, which affects thousands of women in Australia.

"It can be systemic and present anaphylaxis where individuals have not just localised discomfort. They actually can have hives, soft tissue swelling … and, in the severe situations … they can ... potentially die." said immunologist Jonathan Bernstein, of Cincinnati Medical Centre University.

In short, Julie's body attacks Mike's sperm and makes it inactive.

The couple have started adoption proceedings to start their family.

The couple are featured in a documentary, Strange Sex, on the ABC in the US

http://www.news.com.au/st...01,00.html

I love your threads man, I really do.

This allergy is something I´d read about before. And I have also read that taking a lot of sperm from various sex partners is very unhealthy for women, and not just because of AIDS.

Why don't they do in vitro?

Genesia said:

maybe they used up all their money on numerous medical tests to diagnose sperm allergy.

adoptiion is awesome as there are children that need homes now!

BklynBabe said:

I'm not downing adoption.

I'm just saying - there are ways for them to get around this if they want to have a baby.

I'm so ashamed to be from Pennsylvania. Why are people who come from there so fucked up lately? Jon and Kate, and now this shit...and I'm pretty sure I'm leaving some things out.

so if her face and neck are all broke out we know why.

I've heard of this too, though this is the first I've read being this severe.

heard of this too.

well, that's unfortunate

Genesia said:

You might not be downing adoption but I think it's great these people decided to go with it. It's that knee-jerk "why" type attitude that unfortunately leads many to consider adoption as a last resort versus an immediate viable solution.

sosgemini said:

My reaction was not kneejerk. I responded specifically to the fact that this couple is considering adoption because of her allergic reaction. I simply said there were ways around that.

And what really makes people consider adoption as a last resort is the fact that there are relatively few children available - and that it's a potentially heart-breaking journey. Many adoptable children are stuck in a system that favors their parents rights over theirs.

And foreign adoptions do nothing to help the kids at home.

Genesia said:

in Australia the waiting lists are crazy long
My friends have waited (and are still waiting) for 10 years now.

nevermind. lol...to each it's own.
[Edited 11/7/09 18:24pm]

Obviously God doesn't approve of this union.

ScarletScandal said:

How can you possibly compare the attention whoring media monster of the Gosselins to a couple where a woman has a potentially life threatening medical condition? You speak of her misfortunate circumstance as though she should be condemned for it.

Is she OK to swallow it?

Mars23 said:

as long as she keeps her epipen nearby

thats awful.

@ lovesexy juice
[Edited 11/8/09 2:41am]

Mars23 said:

shit, I'd think that would be an excellent excuse not to swallow.
not that an excuse is needed!

Mars23 said:

Probably. But it's hardly going to get to her ovaries that way!

Ottensen said:

I was joking. Sheesh.

oh man thats messed up

purplemansionFL said: