Urban Legends, douche, acidity,cold shower, obstetrics

The belief that Coca-Cola works as an after-sex spermicide is nothing but urban legend, a scientist cautions in the British Medical Journal.

認為可口可樂能當做性行為後的殺精劑，其實只是謠言，一名科學家在「英國醫學期刊」提醒。

Professor of obstetrics and gynaecology Deborah Anderson says that Coca-cola douches were sometimes used in 1950s and 1960s America in the belief that the drink’s acidity killed sperm.

婦產科教授安德森說，可口可樂沖洗法在1950、60年代的美國被當做避孕方式，認為這種飲料的酸性可以殺死精蟲。

Cold Showers (Douches froides) is a French 2005 film directed by Antony Cordier.

Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: urban legend

Myths about anything and everything that barely have a shred of truth in them, yet seem to take on a persistent life of their own. Before the Internet, such urban folklore as "alligators in New York City sewers" was carried in magazines and newspapers. Today, they speed around the world in a few seconds. For more information, visit www.snopes.com.

Snopes (pronounced /ˈsnoʊps/), also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a web site that is the best-known resource for validating and debunking urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other such stories of uncertain or questionable origin in American popular culture.<sup>[1]


cold shower</sup>
A surprisingly chilly reception, reaction, or response, as in The small voter turnout was a cold shower to the League of Women Voters. The allusion in this term is to the unexpected and not always pleasant effect of an ice-cold shower. [Second half of 1900s]

ob・stet・rics

━━ n. 産科学.
⇒obstetric, obstetrical

douche

━━ n. 【医】灌注(かんちゅう)（液）; 灌水器.
━━ v. 灌注する.