Posted on 06/20/2005 8:52:36 AM PDT by pissant
Women may be able to fool their partners by faking an orgasm but a brain scanner will catch them out every time, a conference heard Monday.
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have used scans to show that different areas of the brain are stimulated during an orgasm but are not activated when a woman fakes it.
"Women can imitate orgasm quite well," Gert Holstege told a fertility meeting Monday. "But there is nothing really happening in the brain."
He and colleagues took brain scans of 13 women and 11 men, aged 19-49 who had volunteered for the study, while they were being sexually stimulated by their partner and during an orgasm and compared them to images of their brains at rest.
"We wanted to know what the brain was doing during orgasm," Holstege said.
When women genuinely achieved an orgasm, areas of the brain involved in fear and emotion were deactivated. Those areas stayed alert however when women were faking it.
The researchers also found that the cortex, which is linked with consciousness, is active during a fake orgasm but not during the real thing.
"The deactivation of these very important parts of the brain might be the most important thing necessary to have an orgasm," said Holstege.
"It means that if you are fearful or at a very high level of anxiety, then it is very difficult to have sex because you really have to let yourself go," he added.
The brain scans for men during orgasm were less conclusive, according to Holstege.
But they did show that different parts of the male and female brain are activated and deactivated during sexual stimulation.
The researchers found less deactivation in the males in the areas of the brain linked to emotion and fear when they were sexually stimulated.
They are now planning further studies to compared the male and female brains during orgasm.
About 5,300 delegates are attending the 4-day meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
But you enjoyed it!
I dunno...I've never witnessed a fake one...
That you're aware of. ;)
Let me sit on my pedestal for at least a minute..!
Yeah...I've never witnessed a fake one...
LOL!
Yes,
the key word being 'have to'
Lucky girl!
Well...considering I hear Fabio's door swings both ways...
LOL You're a self-assured man, aren't you?
You should be. Are you discussing YOUR underwear??
I'm just giving you a hard time!
That's for me to know...there are witnesses...
LOL Well, no one asked me about my underwear.
Should we?
But how can you know for sure that they weren't faking?
Scratch that. I probably don't want to know how you know. ;-)
Avril Lavigne is credited with that, apparently. She's a pretty clever girl. She wrote Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway"-- a song which now only rivals Celine Dion's "A New Day Has Come" and "Because You Loved Me" and Faith Hill's "Breathe" for staying power at #1 by a woman-sung song on the Adult Contemporary chart. She also has sold millions of her own albums, with many charted singles.
True. I don't have to. In fact, I sometimes have stop him before he kills me. :-)
I once knew a man, in his late 40's who...
Didn't have a clue what a FO looked like,
what was required (on his part)to make one and
when he found out a. and b.
he thought it was too much work
(and he wondered why his wife left him!)
You can ask, but I may not answer. :-)
Well...I just know...at least in my own mind...LOL
That's sad. What a lot of men don't realize is that their own pleasure is doubled if their women are enjoying themselves. And it does great things for the male ego as well.
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