# Well, who'da thunk it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787 "2004-01-23T17:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/1 "2004-01-23T17:16:20Z")
From News of the Weird: Free-lance writer Jean Lund (her pen name), 51, disclosed to the Boston Globe for a November story that she suffers from Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (perpetually on the verge of orgasm) and hopes that her revelation will help people understand how uncomfortable the condition is. According to Lund and others, the arousal is much different than sexual desire and in fact is not satiated by orgasm. Suspected causes are chemical imbalances, seizures and irregular blood flow. “It’s just a horror,” said a 71-year-old sufferer; it “never stops, it never lets up.” [Boston Globe, 11-11-03] That’s all there is. It sounds awful, but in a very yummy way. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/2 "2004-01-23T18:55:36Z")
They didn’t happen to mention if this was…ummm…contagious, did they? \ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/3 "2004-01-23T19:29:07Z")
Now THAT’s funny! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/4 "2004-01-23T19:49:26Z")
. . . Unfortunately for Lund, her husband suffers from Erectile Disfunction . . . ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/5 "2004-01-23T19:50:16Z")
[Original article from the Boston Globe.](http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/women/articles/2003/11/11/sexual_syndrome_that_takes_joy_out_of_life/) > [@](#): > > When Jean Lund, a 51-year-old office manager and mother of three, told her gynecologist the problem, he snickered and said, “You’re every man’s dream.” > > “I wanted to punch him,” she recalled. “I’m suffering here, and he’s laughing, `Hardy-har-har.' So I looked him in the face and said, `How would you like to walk around on the verge of orgasm every second?’ And he shut up.” I don’t find anything about this funny at all. The women who have this condition should be sympathised with, not put up as objects of ridicule. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/6 "2004-01-23T19:59:50Z")
I’m sure it must be horrible for her. (And, if she’s the most documented case, would this now be known as Lund Syndrome? If so, my sympathies.) But I have to get this out… [When Harry Met Sally] I’ll have what she’s having. [/whms] But only for 1 day … a week. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stover9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stover9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stover9)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/7 "2004-01-23T20:00:02Z")
Per the OP, picturing a 71 year-old suffering from constant sexual arousal followed by the term “yummy” has forced me into an indefinite state of total unarousal. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/8 "2004-01-23T20:03:14Z")
It’s also very unfortunate that the woman’s surname, Lund, is Urdu for “male genitalia”. Not surprisingly, it’s probably the only Urdu word I know. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/9 "2004-01-23T20:10:35Z")
Here’s the male version: [priapism.](http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/1133.html) > [@](#): > > Priapism is a prolonged and painful erection that can last from several hours up to a few days. The priapismic erection is NOT associated with sexual thoughts or sexual activity. What happens is that blood flows into the penis, but is unable to drain as it would in a normally flaccid penis. Considering that the penis provides little room for blood to circulate, the blood becomes stagnant after a while, acidifies, and loses oxygen. Without oxygen, the red blood cells become stiff, and even less able to squeeze their way out of the penis. I’m sure there’s a lot of laughs in that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/10 "2004-01-23T21:30:36Z")
Yep, that’s funny too. 😃 (And I think it was on an episode of ER!) ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/11 "2004-01-23T23:00:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Priapism is a prolonged and painful erection that can last from several hours up to a few days. Sounds like ages 13-17. [Beavis]BOI-OI-OI-OI-OING![/Beavis] ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/12 "2004-01-23T23:49:44Z")
> [@GMRyujin](#): > > Sounds like ages 13-17. > > [Beavis]BOI-OI-OI-OI-OING![/Beavis] At 50 you pray for that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/13 "2004-01-23T23:54:30Z")
So you’re always on the VERGE of orgasm? Does it ever occur? So basically, you’re really freaking arroused, and just about to come, but you can’t? Cuz I can see how that would suck. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-whoda-thunk-it/225787/14 "2004-01-24T01:55:01Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > At 50 you pray for that. 😛 Indeed. One of life’s great jokes on males is that when we have the Mighty Boners of Doom, we’re too socially awkward to get with the ladies, whereas when we mature into Sean Connery-esque smooth, suave greyhood, we have to take magic pills.