It’s going to be extremely difficult to get through this post without making some highly inappropriate comments. And can I suggest you NEVER Google “semen”? OK, let’s do this.

Prof Lazar Greenfield is a highly respected professor of surgery from the University of Michigan and the president of the American College of Surgeons. Or he was until recently when found himself embroiled in a scandal dubbed ‘semengate’ and had to resign.

In the industry publication he edits, Surgery News, he wrote a Valentine’s-Day themed editorial about the mood-boosting effects of semen on women. He cited a study published in 2002 by Gordon Gallup, a psychologist at SUNY-Albany which found that symptoms of depression and suicide attempts were higher among women who used condoms regularly compared to those who didn’t.

Alert, alert….can you feel the controversy exploding?

The Guardian reports…

So semen makes you happy? And what about gay men? They must be pretty happy. Is that why they’re called, you know, gay?

The last word (before he was forced to resign) goes to Prof Greenfield who wrote: “So there’s a deeper bond between men and women than St Valentine would have suspected, and now we know there’s a better gift for that day than chocolate.”

Over to you. Insert lame jokes here…..

[Thanks Andrew]