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Tue 2 Dec, 2008 11:57 am
Anyone else find this part kinda disturbing?
Quote:Dr. Barry Komisaruk and Dr. Beverly Whipple of Rutgers University conducted a study on women with severed spinal cords in 2004. They discovered that these women could feel stimulation of their cervixes and even reach orgasm, although there was no way their brain could be receiving information from the hypogastric or pelvic nerves.
I mean, what were these doctors doing that instigated this line of research?
@Gelisgesti,
I have heard that some women fake orgasms .... might have been a study on that.
@DrewDad,
Oh, I don't know. If I had a severed spinal cord, I might volunteer to take part in that study!
@DrewDad,
I dont, because you left out part of the paragraph...
Quote:How was this possible? An MRI scan of the women's brains showed that the region corresponding to signals from the vagus nerve was active. Because the vagus bypasses the spinal cord, the women were still able to feel cervical stimulation.
So apparently, the nerve responsible bypasses the spinal cord somehow.
@mysteryman,
Fascinating...the vagus nerve is what sends the signal to your brain that your stomach is full, among other things -- had no idea it was linked to sex. Maybe that's why my wife is never in the mood after dinner?...
What happens in the brain during an orgasm I'm not exactly sure, but I know that immediately after the brain is like:
Okay, let's see, first you need to go to the DMV and get your license plates renewed, and then you need to go to Staples to get a new planner. While you're at it you really ought to get some double AA batteries--the remote's been dead for like a week. Coat closet, the coat closet fuckhead, you were supposed to get up early to organize it. Do that first, then the DMV, or maybe, oh ****, RETURN THE DVDs.
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