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Coming Soon:
The Orgasm Machine ?
The discovery happened - as often in the history of science - by
chance. What happened next is even too modern ...
Stuart Meloy, a surgeon in Norht Carolina, was performing a pain
relief operation on a female patient's spine. The operation consists
of implanting electrodes into the spine, and using modulated electrical
pulses to 'confuse' the pain signals passing along the nerves ...
a kind of extreme version of the TENS machines used in labour wards
across the world. The patient remains conscious during the operation,
providing feedback to the surgeon.
While searching for 'the right spot' with the elctrodes in the
spine, Dr. Meloy hit the jackpot: the woman starting giving signals
of sexual arousal and orgasm.
While the discovery is interesting in itself, and actually not
too surprising, it is what happened next that says something about
modern science. The scientist, together with a company, patented
the comcept of an orgasm machine, and medical trials are about to
start.
The target ? Developing a system that can provide orgasms on demand,
to both women and men. The Minneapolis based company is called Medtronic,
and expect the device to be a big hit - comparable to Viagra - in
the next few years.
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Satisfaction
: The Art of the Female Orgasm
by Kim
Cattrall, Mark Levinson
"Some people... assume that for me to play a sexually open character,
like Samantha Jones on HBO's Sex and the City, I must have had
fabulous sex most of my life. Well, the truth is that until
three years ago most of my sexual experiences were miserable,"
confesses Kim Cattrall, in Satisfaction: The Art of Female Orgasm
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