What if DNA from Every Individual A Woman Had Sex with was in Her Brain Tissues Forever?
1 Corinthians 6:16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
So, this may be bit uncomfortable; besides the moral consequences of sexual immorality are there actual medical and health consequences as well?
I had a college friend who died young from cervical cancer and her doctors told her that having multiple sexual partners was a risk factor for that cancer. Cervical cancer is mostly caused by the human papillomavirus and the more sexual partners a woman has the more likely she is to be exposed to that virus.
I have often argued that if a couple lives according to God’s plan; no pre-marital sex and no adulterous relationships, that that couple would be immune to sexually transmitted diseases. I still believe that is true.
Male microchimerism is not a disease per se. No one is sure what the implications are of “strange” DNA of multiple men in the brains of some women are. Studies that have looked at this phenomenon go out of their way Not to focus on sexual intercourse as the source of the male DNA because of the implications that might have on “sexual freedom”.
Microchimerism (abbreviated Mc) is the presence of a small number of cells that originate from another individual and are therefore genetically distinct from the cells of the host individual.
Other more "acceptable" sources of foreign, male DNA include sons, abortion (male) and vanishing twin.
In this study, entitled; “Male microchimerism in women without sons: quantitative assessment and correlation with pregnancy history.” By Yan Z, Lambert NC et al, the authors looked for Mc in women without sons.
"RESULTS:
Male microchimerism was found in 21% of women overall. Healthy women and women with RA did not significantly differ (24% vs 18%). Results ranged from the DNA equivalent of 0 to 20.7 male cells per 100000 female cells. Women were categorized into 4 groups according to pregnancy history.
Group A had only daughters (n = 26), Group B had spontaneous abortions (n = 23), Group C had induced abortions (n = 23), and Group D were nulligravid (n = 48). Male microchimerism prevalence was significantly greater in Group C than other groups (8%, 22%, 57%, 10%, respectively). Levels were also significantly higher in the induced abortion group.
CONCLUSIONS:
Male microchimerism was not infrequent in women without sons. Besides known pregnancies, other possible sources of male microchimerism include unrecognized spontaneous abortion, vanished male twin, an older brother transferred by the maternal circulation, or sexual intercourse."
Another study; “Male Microchimerism in the Human Female Brain” made the following conclusion:
Also unique to our study are the findings that male Mc in the human female brain is relatively frequent (positive in 63% of subjects) and distributed in multiple brain regions, and is potentially persistent across the human lifespan (the oldest female in whom male DNA was detected in the brain was 94 years).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16084184
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3458919/