OH MY GOD! I LOVE THIS MOVIE

Daily Roast ^ | Dec 1 | staff

[jjbrouwer]

AMERICAN girls are being paid to watch porno movies in a bizarre experiment.

Boffins are begging ladies to view a cocktail of straight and lesbian porn so they can measure just how aroused they get.

So far 29 students from Northwestern University have taken part in the survey, agreeing to have a probe inserted in them for the princely sum of $75 each.

And unlike Meg Ryan's character in When Harry Met Sally, there is no faking going on - early results are showing that girls get turned on by almost anything!

"It appears that women, regardless of sexual orientation, respond to everything," says Prof Michael Bailey who is co-ordinating the tests.

[jjbrouwer]

Wonder if the screenings are at Katz Deli...

[patriciaruth]

No profanity????

[ChadGore]

< mutter> our tax dollars at work < /mutter>

[jjbrouwer]

This is possibly not such a bad deal for the 29 ladies involved. They get paid to enjoy themselves. Nice work if you can get it...

[DainBramage]

Show them a movie of me leaving the toilet seat down.

Might be a probe breaker.

[jjbrouwer]

I am a great fan of toilet humour...

Bri: I know MadIvan doesn't *ping* you much these days but I thought this story might be more to your taste!

[The Duke]

One finds oneself wondering if it's the movie or the probe that's "getting the job done"? *G*

[jjbrouwer]

Yes, I deliberately omitted the detail about where the probe is carefully inserted...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

early results are showing that girls get turned on by almost anything!

This is enough to get every man in America to support government sponsored research.

[jjbrouwer]

early results are showing that girls get turned on by almost anything!

This has been my experience of most girls from New York.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This has been my experience of most girls from New York.

Regretfully, it was not my experience when a NYU student.

[MadIvan]

This has been my experience of most girls from New York.

Not my female relations living in that area, I assure you.

Regards, Ivan

[jjbrouwer]

I am sure their reputations remain in tact, Ivan.

[Fantasywriter]

I don't want to get involved in a big discussion here, but I would like to offer an observation. Namely, is it possible that the type of women who would agree to have a probe inserted and then view pornography, knowing their reactions are being monitored, are exactly the type of women who get turned on by just about everything (as I believe the article phrased it)? Perhaps the more discriminating women, who might not enjoy every single thing depicted on these pornographic movies, also would not agree to take this type of test. Just a thought.

[jjbrouwer]

Yes, good point. Some of them might have done it for the money however and not cos they like watching this sort of stuff.

[M.K. Borders]

So far 29 students from Northwestern University have taken part in the survey, agreeing to have a probe inserted in them for the princely sum of $75 each.

Funny, in downtown Indianapolis a girl charging $75 to insert the "probe" would not be called a student.

[Chemist_Geek]

Too many variables... All I know is that were the subjects to interact with me, they'd have to use deicing fluid to get the probes back. Sigh.

[jjbrouwer]

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

You are correct. Any such study that is not conducted surreptitiously (i.e., with unsuspecting "test persons") is of highly limited value, especially if the sample consists of volunteers. In industrial engineering, this has always been the problem with conducting time/motion studies, and it is probably true in this case as well. The only valid observation that can be made is that women who volunteer to view pornography are likely to respond to it in a certain fashion. Of course, this says nothing we couldn't already guess, and it says nothing meangingful about the population at large.

Furthermore, who is to say that the response is caused by the overt stimulus (the films) or by the very fact that the subjects are being observed? There is such a thing as exhibitionism.