A VIDEO of the female brain during orgasm proves it is far too complicated to be bothered with.
And this is where she asks if it's in yet
The animated scan showed more than three areas of the brain were involved at different times, leading millions of men to shake their heads and say 'nah'.
Researchers found that the orgasm starts in the frontal cortex before moving on to the nucleus accumbens and then reaching its peak in the hypothalmus, by which point a normal man should have finished and be well on his way to the lavatory.
Professor Henry Brubaker, of the Institute for Studies, said: "I completely lost track of it half way through. It was like watching a David Lynch film.
"How are we supposed to remember 'nucleus accumbens' never mind asking if her oxytocin has reached its optimum level?"
Stephen Malley, from Guildford, said: "Not that I care in the slightest, but if a woman really wants to have an orgasm with me then it'll have to be a proper, old fashioned one with none of your fancy brain parts that are just there for show."
Bill McKay, from Hatfield said: "I thought they had them in their vaginas? The same way that I have mine in my penis.
"If it can all be kept in the vagina area then I can probably cope with that, but if bits of it are going to be happening in her brain then I'm going to get all confused.
"And then eventually I'll just give up and go and watch television.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
To make the animation, researchers monitored a woman's brain as she lay in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and stimulated herself. The research will help scientists to understand how the brain conducts the symphony of activity that leads to sexual climax in a woman.
What the WTF?!
I've been in one of those gizmos. I give kudos to any gal who was able to get so comfortable in one that she could spank successfully.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
dgs49 wrote:Anyone care to explain how the female human evolved to acquire this physiological capability?
Not present in any other large mammals (or in any other animals, for that matter).
Just wondrin.
Some think, it's because we're always 'in season'; that is we don't have to go into estrus in order to desire to mate, like other mammals. So, since we're always 'turned on', we reach higher arousal levels.
See bonobos and stump-tailed macaques, for starters.
Perhaps the bonobo's most typical sexual pattern, undocumented in any other primate, is genito-genital rubbing (or GG rubbing) between adult females. One female facing another clings with arms and legs to a partner that, standing on both hands and feet, lifts her off the ground. The two females then rub their genital swellings laterally together, emitting grins and squeals that probably reflect orgasmic experiences. (Laboratory experiments on stump- tailed macaques have demonstrated that women are not the only female primates capable of physiological orgasm.)
dgs49 wrote:Anyone care to explain how the female human evolved to acquire this physiological capability?
It gives them something else to moan about!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
I honestly feel for women who cannot achieve orgasm and I'm dumfounded by the number who apparently cannot. It is certainly complex, and anything to help them figure it out would be beneficial.
Plus, I just love the look of those brain scans.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
dgs49 wrote:Anyone care to explain how the female human evolved to acquire this physiological capability?
It gives them something else to moan about!
Yes but most of you pay attention to those moans
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
I think that the majority of women who can't achieve orgasm have psychological rather than physiological issues.
Many women (this is confirmed by my life experience of discussing the issue with women) aren't comfortable with their own bodies, don't know what to do to stimulate themselves, and therefore can't transmit that knowledge to a partner. This is a sadly common reality.
That being said, with 25% of women on anti-depressants, there are likely to be an increasing number of women with physiological issues preventing orgasm.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
Anti-Ds effect orgasm physiologically; it's a side effect that drives some people off them. I've been lucky and always gotten over this side effect within weeks, but I gather some patients are not so lucky.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
It's a very common side effect, one that is getting greater study these days.
Some of the first studies of the SSRIs found that adverse sexual side effects (such as orgasm problems) occur in less than 10% of patients, according to Lawrence Labbate, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. But, he points out, those studies relied on unprompted reporting -- patients who spoke up during a doctor visit or called their doctor on the phone when they noticed the sexual problems, so the number of people experiencing such problems was underrepresented.
In more recent studies, doctors specifically asked patients about libido or orgasmic difficulties, and found that they are present in nearly half of patients on an SSRI. Labbate reported this finding in the October 1999 issue of Psychiatric Annals.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
