Turns out, sex can be deadly

This week’s entry: Death during consensual sex
What it’s about: Sex is one of life’s great joys, at least for people who spend their time engaging in satisfying social interactions instead of reading some crank on the internet recapping Wikipedia pages. But in rare instances, it can also be one of life’s great dangers. Roughly 0.6 percent of sudden deaths occur during what the medical profession refers to as “doing it.” Usually when la petite mort segues into la réel mort, it’s because the strenuous act puts too much pressure on the heart, but there are a number of ways to go from lights out to, well, lights out. Better stick to reading about it on Wikipedia, for safety’s sake.
Biggest controversy: Every politician knows the old saw about being caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. But it’s politicians themselves who tend to end up dead in bed. Nineteenth-century British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston is rumored to have died while having sex with a maid on a pool table. (Alternately, he may have died of pneumonia. Tomato, tomahto.) Félix Faure, prime minister of France at the end of the 19th century, died of a cerebral hemorrhage “while receiving fellatio from his mistress.” More recently, former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller went out on a high note while having sex with his secretary.
Strangest fact: Your cheatin’ heart… may explode during sex. According to a 2011 study in the Journal Of Sexual Medicine, men are more likely to have a heart attack during sex if they’re being unfaithful. (And it’s men who are more likely to die during sex than women.) Cocaine increases your likelihood of going out with a bang even more so. So, please, for your own safety, don’t combine these two risk factors—do cocaine with your wife, as God intended.