Brain Scans Arouse Researchers

Wired News ^ | 04-19-2004 | Randy Dotinga

[numberonepal]

SAN DIEGO -- The study of sexual arousal, long limited to imprecise measurements of activity below the waist, is moving into new territory. In laboratories from New Jersey to California, researchers are putting men and women into MRI machines and watching how their brains react when they become sexually stimulated.

[numberonepal]

Lengthy but interesting.

[Drango]

I got hot just reading it...

[MrB]

"blew his whole scan,"

'nuf said.

[freedumb2003]

"The female instrument is more complicated than the male instrument,"

They need a scientific study to determine that?

Jeeze!

[bluefish]

But only over the past five decades have researchers developed effective ways of measuring physical signs of stimulation.

Scientists from more than 5 decades ago didn't get out much, did they?

[Publius6961]

Darn!
I have a perfect illustration of this but have no clue on how to post it. It's on my hard drive.

[Drango]

Just how hard is your drive?

[freedumb2003]

You have to upload it somewhere where there is a web server -- I hear tell there is a corner of FR to do that but I'll be hanged if I know where it is.

[KOZ.]

Heterosexual men, by contrast, prefer erotica with at least one female participant. The opposite is true of gay men. our tax dollars at work.

[Migraine]

While their injuries prevent them from actually feeling the stimulation, they still experience orgasms.

Oh. Kinda like Mr. Whipple getting off squeezing the Charmin.

[upchuck]

Where does one volunteer to be a part of this program? I'm serious! Being stuck in a MRI machine and then being sexually stimulated has been a lifelong dream for me.