Orgasmatron Puts Tech in Sex

[NashVegas]

Good morning!

A Texas company claims to have invented a kind of Orgasmatron for women -- an electrical stimulation device that takes women to a pre-orgasmic state.

Stimulation Systems' Slightest Touch is a $200 battery-powered device that electrically stimulates sexual nerve pathways in a woman's pelvis.

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Applied 10 to 20 minutes before sex, the company says the device's gentle, pulsating current brings its wearer to a state of sexual readiness, where the "slightest touch" can trigger an orgasm.

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But skeptics abound. Stephen Barrett, a retired psychiatrist from Allentown, Pennsylvania, who runs Quackwatch, said it was highly unlikely that electrical current to the ankles would stimulate the pelvis.

"I can't imagine how that would have anything to do with stimulating the pudendal nerve," he said. "That's nuts. That's bullshit. You're not going to stimulate anything in the pelvis by stimulating the ankle."

Barrett suggested the device might work by suggestion, or some secondary effect like relaxing its wearer.


http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60943,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4

So who in DU wants to test it?

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Twelve years ago

I worked in a neurophysiology lab at an Ivy League university. Mild, rhythmic electrical pulses -- the kind you could feel, but not strong enough to be called a "shock" -- could induce relaxation AND mild sexual arousal. The most effective stimulus site was the posterior tibial nerve.

If you tap below the ankle bones on the medial (inside) aspects of your feet, you may feel a mild twinge. That's the posterior tibial nerve.

It has nothing to do with the pudendal nerves. The working hypothesis was that rhythmic stimulation of big nerves acted like rocking, rhythmic chanting, or slow dancing. Nobody came to orgasm from it, but most of us younger guinea pigs (everybody in a lab is a guinea pig!) developed a certain amount of amorousness.

But $200 for such a thing? Hot diggity, we built portable devices for about $25 worth of parts. And that was from parts bought at inflated Radio Shack prices.

As to His Skeptuousness, Steve Barrett, "bullshit" is a good description for him. He's every bit as much of a quack and a crank as the worst CSICOP has to offer, a roster including John Stossel, Frank Miele, and Bob "Patriarchy Rulez!" Scheaffer.

--bkl
And don't get me started on the "Li'l Skeppers"

[JackDragna]

14. Yeah, that terrible Barrett..

..keeping people from getting into homeopathy, shark cartilage, urine therapy and all the other useless New Age medicines.

[emad]

2. Alternatively, try a spliff....

now THAT works wonders on the vagus nerve....

[General Discontent]

3. I have nothing to say....

Yet I feel strangely compelled to reply to the best header ever in LBN!
Count me in!


:bounce:



D Wolfman

[E_Zapata]

4. True or not, this is outlandish

So now 'man' want to figure out a way to avoid having to even invest in their woman's orgasm?

How does this mesh with the excessive use of viagra, I ask? So, she's taking care of herself for a half hour; and once pricked by your magic shaft, she is all done. And him? Needs about another hour till the Vitamin V wears off? With who? And how?

Maybe this is a whole scheme of torture for men?

/sarcasm (partly)

[Teaser]

6. It's fine and there's nothing wrong with it.

provided it works of course. It's not part of the masculinist plot to further subjugate women.

[NashVegas]

8. I Agree - Partly

It will have its negative uses, and its positive.

[Robb]

7. Is there no pleasing you!?!?

Heh. :evilgrin:

[BiggJawn]

9. "I poked and I stroked 'til my wrist got numb..."

"...but I still didn't hear no Dynamo Hum..."

Obviously you'e not been with many post-menopausal women.
In fact, I'll venture that you've not been with many women of ANY age, else you'd know that "...once pricked by your magic shaft, she is all done..." is pretty short-sighted, since women are like the Energiser Bunny, they "keep going, and going..." (which I think is the most amazing thing I ever have experienced,orgasms like ocean waves.Gawd, I miss her!)

Sometimes people need help as they get older. I applaude this, even if it will be used mostly by busy 20-somethings who don't want the "hassle" of a relationship....

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Now if only they can find a way….

to make a vending machine out of it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Put it in motel rooms...

linked to the traditional "Magic Fingers" thingie. I foresee many quarters in your future...

[Digger]

22. An appropriate old limerick...

There once was a man from Racine
Who invented a sex machine
Concave or convex
It could serve either sex
But oh! what a mother to clean

:smoke:

[hang a left]

10. I will take two, one for each of my ankles.

Thank you very much.

[jokerman93]

12. Barenuckledliberal?

Why don't you give us a parts list for the Radio Shack version?????

[davsand]

13. Orgasmatron? I keep thinking of the movie Sleeper!

Woodie Allen may have been a real visionary!

Know what? I figure if it makes you happy then go for it. I'm not sure that $200 is worth it, but maybe mass production will bring the price down to something more folks can afford.

Shoot, given the fact that men do tend to heat up a little quicker than a lot of women, I'm thinking it may not be a bad idea. It might level the playing field for some of the women who are slow out of the blocks...

Laura

[kath]

20. Heh... Woody Allen stepping out of the Orgasmatron

is one of the funniest movie scenes ever! (also loved the part where a "Miss America" sash is put on Woody during the part where thay are reprogramming his brain)

Time to watch that movie again... it's been many years.

[AWD]

15. Anybody else see "Orgazmo"???

Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing you are....one of the funniest movies ever!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. Oh so what, I can help women do that for free

[ParanoidPat]

17. I'm with you NSMA!

Toungs, their not just for speaking anymore! :evilgrin: :P

[oneighty]

18. Me too,NSMA

Some women have found me rather shocking.

Hee! Hee!

Ed

[kath]

21. Yeah, a nice warm tongue

(properly applied)is better than any machine, ANY day...

[NashVegas]

19. Hey!

Some fascist mod moved this out of LBN.

Hmmmph.