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MRI Reveals Organs During Sex
Live Science ^ | 21 August 2009 10:50 am ET | Live Science Staff

Posted on 09/05/2009 7:18:24 PM PDT by Candor7

Submitted by LiveScience Staff This video (scroll down) is making the rounds the past week on respected science sites like New Scientist as well as geek blogs and YouTube. It's based on not-brand-new research that involved a video that is said to be of interest to scientists who study these things and, perhaps, to anyone in the general public interested in sexual anatomy. Dr. Pek Van Andel and colleagues, in 1999, made the first MRI images of male and female sex organs while couples were having sex under, as it was put, cloistered conditions. MRI machines are said by some to be much like coffins. The purpose of the "observational study," as explained in the British Medical Journal in 1999: "To find out whether taking images of the male and female genitals during coitus is feasible and to find out whether former and current ideas about the anatomy during sexual intercourse and during female sexual arousal are based on assumptions or on facts." In all, 13 experiments were performed with eight couples and three single women. The results, as stated in the journal: "The images obtained showed that during intercourse in the "missionary position" the penis has the shape of a boomerang and 1/3 of its length consists of the root of the penis. During female sexual arousal without intercourse the uterus was raised and the anterior vaginal wall lengthened. The size of the uterus did not increase during sexual arousal." ......

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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Humor; Science
KEYWORDS: backoffimascientist; medical; mri; napl; rodgunsguts; science
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MRI Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVAdCKaU3vY&feature=player_embedded

Thats not Bawney Fwanks!

1 posted on 09/05/2009 7:18:24 PM PDT by Candor7
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To: Candor7

Is this safe for work?


2 posted on 09/05/2009 7:22:50 PM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: Candor7

Scientific porn, who knew?


3 posted on 09/05/2009 7:25:14 PM PDT by doc1019 (Obama? Not so much.)
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To: Candor7

Biology porn. LOL


4 posted on 09/05/2009 7:27:27 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: smokingfrog

I dunno if he used one. You will have to e-mail them.


5 posted on 09/05/2009 7:27:32 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,truth. (member NRA)
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To: Candor7

My boomerang won’t come back.


6 posted on 09/05/2009 7:31:21 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Candor7
285+ views as of this post. I did not click on the link.
7 posted on 09/05/2009 7:31:36 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("it can never happen here.")
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To: Candor7

I have really got to submit some ideas for government funding...


8 posted on 09/05/2009 7:32:26 PM PDT by txroadkill (Anakin Skywalker was the "Chosen One" too and look how that turned out!)
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To: RichInOC

so you just got a stick then


9 posted on 09/05/2009 7:33:11 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom ;))
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To: the invisib1e hand

It was not the dreaded meat spin


10 posted on 09/05/2009 7:33:48 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom ;))
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To: Candor7

Is this why there are waiting lists for MRIs in Europe?


11 posted on 09/05/2009 7:34:07 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
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To: Candor7

I can’t see anything!


12 posted on 09/05/2009 7:35:47 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: RichInOC

Who Knew? ROTFLMAO.

Boomaranged shaped, yeah right.


13 posted on 09/05/2009 7:37:37 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,truth. (member NRA)
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To: Dallas59

You’re looking at it upside down.


14 posted on 09/05/2009 7:37:59 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Proud FR Mobster)
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To: TADSLOS

Now I see an Elephant!


15 posted on 09/05/2009 7:39:44 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

If the MRI’s a rockin’, don’t come a knockin’.


16 posted on 09/05/2009 7:41:54 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Proud FR Mobster)
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To: Candor7

the Bell choir was positioned next to the Organ and were singing My Dingaling!


17 posted on 09/05/2009 7:44:42 PM PDT by Young Werther ("Quae Cum Ita Sunt - Julius Caesar "Since these things are so!">)
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To: TADSLOS

18 posted on 09/05/2009 7:44:57 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Candor7

I wonder what Smiling Bob’s take on this is?


19 posted on 09/05/2009 7:47:05 PM PDT by seoul62
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To: Dallas59

I need to post that on the fridge ;~)


20 posted on 09/05/2009 8:04:16 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Proud FR Mobster)
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