Female Orgasm Brain Scan Animation
Ian Sample reports for the Guardian that the animation will help scientists understand how the female brain conducts the symphony of activity that leads to an orgasm:
Scientists have used brain scan images to create the world’s first movie of the female brain as it approaches, experiences and recovers from an orgasm. The animation reveals the steady buildup of activity in the brain as disparate regions flicker into life and then come together in a crescendo of activity before gently settling back down again.
To make the animation, researchers monitored a woman’s brain as she lay in…
Sex On The Brain: Orgasms Unlock Altered Consciousness
Kayt Sukel writes in New Scientist:
With a click and a whirr, I am pulled into the scanner. My head is strapped down and I have been draped with a blanket so that I may touch my nether regions — my clitoris in particular — with a certain degree of modesty. I am here neither for a medical procedure nor an adult movie. Rather, I am about to stimulate myself to orgasm while an fMRI scanner tracks the blood flow in my brain.
My actions are helping Barry Komisaruk at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and colleagues to tease apart the mechanisms underlying sexual arousal. In doing so, not only have they discovered that there is more than one route to orgasm, but they may also have revealed a novel type of consciousness — an understanding of which could lead to new treatments for pain.
Inside Story: Delightful Deliveries
[disinformation ed.'s note: the contributor dug deep in the crates for this 2006 story]
Giving birth was an orgasmic experience for one woman, says Anastasia Stephens, writing in the Times:
For Katrina Caslake, 44, giving birth was not the terrifying, painful ordeal most women experience. Far from it. The midwife, from Wallington, South London, says she found it blissful, even orgasmic.
“I found giving birth very sensual,” says Caslake, who didn’t take painkillers for the birth of her two sons, Aaron, 18, and Tomas, 17. “All my erogenous zones were stimulated. And I had a definite climax. I was doing the most feminine thing a woman can do and it felt fantastic.”
It was her “pleasurable experience” that led her to train as a midwife. “I knew I wasn’t unique,” says Caslake, who helps to run Yours Maternally, an independent midwifery service. “By encouraging women to trust and relax in their bodies during birth, I…
A To Z Of Sexual History: W = Wet Dream
From VICE:
A wet dream is basically a freebie: a gift from the orgasm fairy. After all, what could be better than waking up in the night from the sheer force of ejaculation? However, in earlier eras, rather than being the sexual equivalent of a surprise party, they were considered the work of the devil, who squeezed out your semen in a fight for your soul.
There is a Sin Scale, with gangbanging grannies somewhere near the top, and having the occasional wank in the more forgivable spectrum. However, religious folk have always struggled to know where to place the wet dream; there is no act of volition and they are seemingly random. The majority of times I have woken cumming in my sleep I don’t even remember what I was dreaming about, so wouldn’t take kindly to being held responsible for whatever cornucopia of filth was in my sleeping head.
Nonetheless, the…
Outer Space Exploration Depends on Your Orgasms
Author Jason Louv asks: what happened to the Great Dream? And then he urges you to start thinking about outer space when you have an orgasm.
“Space is fundamentally about sex. And by eroticizing space, instead of militarizing it, we can do wonders for our limp interest.”
Humankind’s best hope for outer space exploration may be to…eroticize it. “If we could harness the sexual juice poured into the Internet every day and aim it toward the stars, just think what we could achieve.” And in fact, space has a very clear link to sexuality — the threat of world overpopulation! (”Sex makes human beings…And we’ll eventually need to get into space to find somewhere to put them!”)
“Don’t use sexuality to further pollute planet Earth. Use it as a spaceship. Forget Earth, with its grime and disappointment. Forget the last four decades of disaster capitalism and electronic distraction… There’s a whole universe out…
