Women turned off by patent orgasm

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 27/11/2003 | Robert Uhlig

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A surgeon who wants to test his patent orgasm device on women is finding it difficult to find volunteers.

"I thought people would be beating my door down to take part in the trial," Dr Stuart Meloy said.

But only one women has so far tested the device, which involves an implant in the spine, and one other has signed to take the test.

Dr Meloy, a pain specialist from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, appealed in the journal New Scientist yesterday for eight other women.

After having electrodes inserted in their spine, they will be connected to a device the size of a pacemaker implanted under the skin to heighten their sexual pleasure.

The woman who tested the invention, dubbed the orgasmatron, had not had an orgasm for four years. "When the device was switched on, she reported being almost instantly aroused," Dr Meloy said. "She described it as 'really excellent foreplay'."

The woman wore the device for nine days and had intercourse with her husband seven times. Dr Meloy said she had an orgasm every time and experienced her first multiple orgasm.

Dr Meloy, whose test has been approved by the American government, stumbled on the unexpected side-effect while using a spinal cord stimulator to treat a patient with severe back pain.

A full implant of the device would cost about £8,000. Dr Meloy said it was no riskier than an epidural.

"I do not see it any differently from procedures such as breast implants," he said.

Some medical experts are sceptical about the procedure and say that a vibrator could produce the same results.

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The woman wore the device for nine days and had intercourse with her husband seven times. Dr Meloy said she had an orgasm every time and experienced her first multiple orgasm.

As long as Senator Clinton is in office this device will never be available on Medicare.

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Dr Meloy, whose test has been approved by the American government, stumbled on the unexpected side-effect while using a spinal cord stimulator to treat a patient with severe back pain.

I remember when this article was first posted on FR. Good for him!

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[Fledermaus]

Sometimes you realize how great the United States really is when we have enough money to waste of this stuff.

[Dark Knight]

I beg your pardon. Extending pleasure and fullfillment to a married couple being denied, is many things but a waste of money. If you want people to live in hovels and feel badly or dying, go to the many nations that will take your vision and up you one.

DK

[Fledermaus]

You can spend your money on anything you want.

Don't come asking for mine when you can't afford it and call it an entitlement.

As to the rest of your ramblings about hovels and nations and visions, either you are being sarcastic or you are nuts.

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I think you may have hit a nerve there.

[Yeti]

Some medical experts are sceptical about the procedure and say that a vibrator could produce the same results.

"The Daily Telegraph ^ | 27/11/2003 | Robert Uhlig"

I think Mr. Uhlig made this last part up.

For about 10 years now, "Medical experts" have been warning that vibrators can impair women's ability to have orgasms with anything other than a vibrator, by desensitizing her through over-stimulation.

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And I imagine that any woman with this implant would never beable to orgasm naturally either.

[martin_fierro]

Then there's the woman plagued by 200 orgasms a day.

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A full implant of the device would cost about £8,000. Dr Meloy said it was no riskier than an epidural

*** The well placed hand of a spouse is free. Or a ten dollar vibrator. I bet if this was a penis stimulator, it'd fly off the shelves.