How exactly does the presence of semen in a guy's shorts prove that he's been unfaithful? Guys don't need help to produce semen...

And yeah, regarding dad examining darling daughter's thong for residue... ick.

Once the TSA gets a hold of this, there will be less people flying airplanes.

Science marches onward!

Why can't they make a Bullshit detector?

Why can't they make a Bullshit detector?

The big problem is picking the desired signal out of the intense background noise.

compared to rotting from AIDS.

They act like it's for wives to check up on their husbands, but actually it has to be the other way around or it makes no sense at all. There is probably a trace of semen in every man's underwear. And they don't show the person testing tightie whities. If you're married and you find a garment like that red ... THING in your husband's possession, I think you can be fairly certain that something is already happening that he doesn't want to tell you about - but it might not even be something sinister. The presence of semen on it is irrelevant. Maybe he wears it himself - which, frankly, is a more likely explanation for it being in his possession than the thing that immediately comes (ahem) to mind. Now, if it's a husband checking up on his wife, I suppose there is less likelihood of semen in the seams. But unless he and the wife haven't been active for a while, it proves zilch. A DNA test would be much more useful. (Not that I'm advocating for that!) But this thing? This is just dumb. The equivalent of finding your spouse's fingerprints all over the house. What is there to accuse them of? Touching the refrigerator?

Buy this kit and take it with you to test the sheets and bedspreads in hotel and motel rooms for the presence of semen! I promise you'll find so much there that you'll want to sleep on the floor or in the bathtub.

I once saw some CSI-type science program when they talked about the use of the "blue light" technology to detect residues of semen during investigations, and they specifically mentioned how difficult using such technology is in hotel and motel rooms because, literally, the whole goddamned bed glows, from years of accumulated seed. Apparently, these places don't do such a great job cleaning the beds, after all.

I'm a bi male who's encountered more than his fair share of semen over the years (ahem), but still...yuck.

Considering how many women get their drinks drugged--and they pass out and "come to," suspicious, but not REALLY knowing, for sure, what happened--it seems to me that the semen detection kit could let them know, without a doubt, whether or not they'd been assaulted.

But if we don't, we should all have the means to protect ourselves. Yes, it's creepy, but is cheating and lying ok, especially considering the potentially fatal consequences? You don't want your guy checking up on you, and female infidelity the only "problem" this product is likely to reveal, but wouldn't seem different if it were designed to give women knowledge about their relationships?

Yeah, "considering how many":

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=436592&in_page_id=1770

If you slam eleven tequilas in a row, chances are that one of them could've been drugged. Statistically-speaking.

It seems the only people for whom this would actually be useful are germ/dirt-phobic people. Of course, they're the last ones who should have devices that show you various items aren't as clean as they look, but the device is useless for any other purpose.

If you slam 11, it won't matter whether one of them was drugged.

... then the relationship is already over!

That the same thing I said to a close female friend of mine who wanted to hire a private investigator to follow around her husband.

Me: "Why don't you try talking to him about your anxieties first?"

Her: "Well, we really can't talk."

Gee.

What I call creepy is the fact that there are so many children born to men who didn't father them - and don't know. If you suspect she's cheating, this is a great way to find out.

It's too bad that we've come to this point - where a woman's "happiness" is foremost, and everything else is secondary.

there are so many children born to men who didn't father them - and don't know

Oh, so true. Last year there were what, 9 nationwide? Or was it up to 11? It's an epidemic, I tells ya!

This product immediately strikes me as absurdly sexist. Think about it: a husband, teenage son, or other male could feasibly have semen in their undergarments at any time thanks to the glories of masturbation. So basically what this product is intended for is catching the cheating wife or "slutty" daughter, further perpetuating those good ol'e gender roles regarding women and sex. Yeesh.

I don't care what the Daily Mail thinks, that's utter B.S. We had a confirmed (yes, confirmed, police, lab test, whole deal) case of date-rape drugging at my school. They knew something was up when a man got sick and passed out, as apparently the would-be rapist didn't have particularly good aim. A friend of mine was also drugged, got really ill and passed out after one beer. She also went the hospital (after the sexual assault) and tested positive.

It absolutely happens, and placing the blame on women for "binge drinking" is grossly irresponsible and denies the fact that people *are* being victimized without having made "bad judgment calls."

"Paternity fraud is a growing problem for both men who should have a higher level of confidence on the paternity of their children, and for the children who need a reliable history of both parents for the maintenance of their physical and emotional health. The Blood Bank Association, and Lee Newman, administrator of SafeNH, report that just under 30% of paternity tests proved negative for fathers who were fingered to be the sire of their girlfriend's child.

Carnell Smith, a paternity fraud expert who administers http://www.paternityfraud.com, reports that slightly more than 30% of the cases he sampled proved negative. Smith strongly advises young men not to sign paternity statements until DNA testing proves positive for them.

(http://www.expertclick.com/search/outsideurl.cfm?groupID=6854)"

If it's 30% in New Hampshire, do you really think the statistic is that far different anywhere else?