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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031126/80/ef0oj.html
Women needed to test orgasm machine

LONDON (Reuters) - Wanted: women to test new orgasm machine.

No, really. An American surgeon who has patented a device that triggers an orgasm has begun a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States and is looking for female volunteers.

"I thought people would be beating my door down to become part of the trial," pain specialist Dr Stuart Meloy told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.

But so far only one woman has completed the first stage of the trial, with apparently breathtaking results, and a second has agreed to take part.

Meloy, of Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is hoping to find eight more volunteers willing to have electrodes inserted in their spine and be connected to a pacemaker-size machine implanted under the skin to heighten their sexual pleasure.

The married woman who tested the machine, dubbed an orgasmatron, had not had an orgasm for four years. But during the nine days she used it, she had several.

"She even told me she had the first multiple orgasm of her life using the device," said Meloy.

He stumbled on the unexpected side-effect while using a spinal cord stimulator a few years ago to treat a patient suffering with severe back pain. The woman had already had back surgery for degenerative disk disease and fusion surgery.

When Meloy placed the electrodes into a specific spot on her spine to find nerve bundles carrying pain signals to the brain, she moaned with delight.

"You're going to have to teach my husband how to do that," he quoted her as saying.

The tiny impulses of electricity applied to the electrodes seemed to have turned on the patient's orgasm button.

Although the device has been compared to the orgasmatron featured in the 1973 Woody Allen film "Sleeper", Meloy envisions patients using it temporarily to retrain their sexual response.

The women in the trial described it as "really excellent foreplay."

Although some medical experts are sceptical about the procedure and say a vibrator can produce the same results, Meloy believes it could help to improve sexual response in women who cannot have orgasms and might even help men as well.

A full implant of the device would cost about 13,000 pounds.

"I don't see it any differently from procedures such as breast implants," Meloy told the magazine.
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This should be in useless nonsense

another urban legend
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Urban legend? I think not. New Scientist is a reputable publication: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994419
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Mr. Potatoe Head wrote: another urban legend
Awww...I think he wants to volunteer :roll: :shock:
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Umm, are you trying to tell me something babe? :lol: :wink:
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Don't any of these fine ladys on the board need some xtra cash for the Holidays? Jump on the next blow torch with wings and enjoy the ride and
get paid for it.
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rushlight wrote:Umm, are you trying to tell me something babe? :lol: :wink:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........??? :twisted: :lol: :wink:
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I already have an orgasmatron.....his name is Dave... :!:

:oops: :oops:

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That's what Geddy is for...isn't that right Craig? :twisted:
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Immortal for a Ltd Time wrote:I already have an orgasmatron.....his name is Dave... :!:

:oops: :oops:

:lol:
LMAO
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what you and Geddy do on your own time is none of my business Xanny....but he is getting kind of old, don't ya think you should let him rest?
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wcp wrote:what you and Geddy do on your own time is none of my business Xanny....but he is getting kind of old, don't ya think you should let him rest?
None of your bussiness when you are right there on top!?? :shock: Stop trying to play innocent here. We adopted him and he is older than us so its not the same as child-molesting :roll:
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what a pathetic world..
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Pathetic world.. pathetic creatures.. pathetic forummaster who let's his harddisk screw up .. and.. . pathetic all.. .. and .. then.. the batteries run out..



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