In Taiwan and China, a man meeting an unexpected demise during sex is described as suffering from mashangfeng (馬上風), or lobeihong (落馬風) in Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese), which literally means “getting winded while riding a horse.”
Medical practitioners caution that when engaging in vigorous physical activities with heightened blood circulation and high emotional states such as sexual intercourse, it can result in a stroke or heart attack, Shih [Shih Chi-chung (石啟仲), the chief doctor of Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital’s emergency room] said, adding that a majority of such victims are men.
He was 22.
The cold could also be a factor, he said, advising people not to engage in vigorous sex under cold conditions, and suggesting that people warm up, as in engaging in physical exercise, before beginning sexual activities.
Um, I know climate is something you get used to and all that, but they were indoors.
Now I haven’t spent much time in hospitals in Taiwan. Is this kind of reasoning frequently heard?
Pretty poor writing by Jason Pan. Not a single thing in that article is “newsworthy”. People die every day for a myriad of reasons. Its not news, its most likely cardiac arrhythmia.
“most respondents said it was not a tragedy, but was quite a happy ending”
I imagine it’s not quite the sort of “happy ending” most people ask for at the massage shops.
I agree. The guy presumably had some sort of congenital heart defect and could have kicked the bucket at any time. It was just horribly bad luck.
I suppose the number of people who are grossly unfit is increasing these days, but doctors sending out warnings that having sex (in “cold weather”) is some sort of life-threatening endurance test is ridiculous. There’d be nobody alive north of the Tropic of Cancer if that were true.
Yes, people die every day. From the content of the article, I would guess he may have been on something (possibly performance enhancing).
But for the doctor to dismiss it as obviously a heart attack brought on by another thing people do every day because it was cold, to me that’s newsworthy because it says something about the quality of doctors on the island (or at least in Jilong), if nothing else.
I wondered about that. Tried viagra a couple of times but it gave me the most godawful headaches, which kinda defeats the object. Apparently it can cause heart attack and stroke.
It tends to be cold in houses here in winter though. Being naked in the cold is a bit of a shock. The sex just warms you up Maybe that’s more what the doctors meant, which isn’t totally illogical.
That may be, but I’m inclined to agree with Finley. I’ve spent enough winters in both the Great White North and more southern places to be skeptical of a statement like that.
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I’m guessing that guy doesn’t get too much action in the sack either, so that’s two potential tragedies averted.
Maybe that’s more what the doctors meant, which isn’t totally illogical.
