MRI Reveals Organs During Sex

Live Science ^ | 21 August 2009 10:50 am ET | Live Science Staff

[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." ......

[Miss Behave]

Palliative porn. It’s OK, it’s just science.

[Paleo Conservative]

Lay persons.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I'm on my fourth pacemaker and had a double bypass. I've had a couple of catheterizations and various heart scans.

[savedbygrace]

LOL out loud.

[headsonpikes]

For a moment there I thought I’d read “I’m on my fourth boilermaker”!

Stay well.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"ROTFLMAO!!!"

Thank you, thank you, we'll be here all week, try the halibut.

[Slings and Arrows]

Hit it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Hi there, it has been a long time since I bumped into you, for some reason.

[Miss Behave]

Doctor’s famous last words: “Relax, Miss—this won’t hurt a bit—MRIs are non-invasive.”

[Miss Behave]

LOL, Slings! Thanks--that's one of my all-time faves! I have some of those naughty librarian glasses that I forgot about. I love whenever the old man scientist echoes Dolby's "She blinded me with science," on-screen and off-screen. I don't know why that tickles me so much. Watch it again and see if it doesn't make you laugh, too. :-)

Thanks for sharing it, Slings. It's one of the all-time classics that makes you TURN THE VOLUME UP. :-)

[Big Giant Head]

Bump for later... (no pun intended)

[Miss Behave]

Um...hello there.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

MRI PORN...WHO KNEW.....PING!!!!

[Slings and Arrows]

Huh. Now I have the urge to listen to some Human League and J. Geils Band.

[blackie]

Down right weird!

[Towed_Jumper]

According to the video this experiment was “conducted at the hospital in Groningen...” (that's pronounced “Groan Again” ...you just can't make this kind of stuff up!

Yet another example of how some stories just “write themselves.”

[llevrok]

I can’t imagine squeezing into an MRI “tube” to have these images taken. Teeeee-ight!

[Larry Lucido]

Al, how is your Stuned Beeber Imager project coming?

[AFPhys]

I don’t think that is what MY organ looks like during sex. o’course, I could be wrong- I’m not certain I even know what sex is any more.

[BBell]

"My boomerang won’t come back."

Sounds like a statement John Wayne Bobbitt gave to the police following his 'incident' with wife, Lorena.