I'm underwhelmed. Sounds a little sick to me. Who's conducting this research, Josef Mengele? If I should become paralyzed in the future do I need to opt out now? And what of my evil twin?
I am not sure of the moral consequences of this work. At first sight it gives some form of healing hope for quadraplegics.
Yet if the brain is mainly it, there should be more fulfillment out of it than this. Many fully functioning people choose celibacy and total abstinance for a reason....if thy right hand makes you sin, cut it off, type logic.
So it would be kind of a false hope in that respect, instead of taking life as it is as a blessing to open our eyes to other worlds than the carnal harlotry threatening kinds. Superanimalizing man ourselves is a strange art that makes guinea pigs and rats wiser than us when hungry. Our brain is our asset but also a great betrayer whose sophistication makes it more demanding than it gives.
Accepting Christ is a form of total self-rejection, and rebelling against harshness of life is ambiguous as a promotioyn of life itself.
If quadriplegics want it, and if I could, I'd give them my spinal parts for such things, begrudgingly as a sinner, yes, but I can compute it would be the wiser thing to do.
These "independent pleasure" doctors, on the other hand, bother me. The confederation of a couple's life around an exclusive system of doctors and without a network of charitable donors is bothersome.
For one thing, they never give credit to the husbands who helped wives heal, but the paper credits this "paper writer" researcher... with his "tampon" instruments.
Dear KarinGI
Might I ask how you derived your Mengele analogy from the post about vagus stimulation erotic capabilities?
The report appears to be well researched, clearly written and the bearer of what can only be considered good news.