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10 Nov 2005, 11:27 am

Brain Areas Shut Off During Female Orgasm
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology ... rgasm.html
By Emma Ross
Associated Press
posted: 20 June, 2005
12:24pm ET



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10 Nov 2005, 12:24 pm

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10 Nov 2005, 12:28 pm

hecate wrote:
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What was that supposed to mean, you naughty girl!! !! :lol: :wink:



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10 Nov 2005, 3:49 pm

“It looks like to have an orgasm, you need to not be fearful or full of anxiety.''

what's he mean you need to not be fearful of anxious to have an orgasm? isn't it the other way? an orgasm causes you to not be fearful or anxious.


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10 Nov 2005, 4:04 pm

Hmmmm... It sounds like they're refering to the Amygdala. But the amygdala controls a LOT more than just fear and anxiety.

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10 Nov 2005, 11:10 pm

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“The fact that there is no deactivation in faked orgasms means a basic part of a real orgasm is letting go. Women can imitate orgasm quite well, as we know, but there is nothing really happening in the brain,'' said neuroscientist Gert Holstege.

I can imagine this statement was followed by the mother of all awkward silences. Poor, poor neuroscientist nerds... :lol:



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11 Nov 2005, 3:36 am

rofl, ghotistix!

why haven't they mentioned oxytocin? bloody specialists.



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13 Nov 2005, 8:09 pm

I think that we need to look into this more. You know, duplictae the study, in the lab, in the field, at home, while wearing a foil hat that looks properly science-y... Hey, if you're really rich but can't get a parter, buy a brain scanning machine and say you're doing a follow-up study!

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aspergian_mutant wrote:
“The fact that there is no deactivation in faked orgasms means a basic part of a real orgasm is letting go. Women can imitate orgasm quite well, as we know, but there is nothing really happening in the brain,'' said neuroscientist Gert Holstege.

I can imagine this statement was followed by the mother of all awkward silences. Poor, poor neuroscientist nerds... :lol:


I was thinking that too!! !



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13 Nov 2005, 8:39 pm

aspergian_mutant wrote:

In the study, Holstege and his colleagues at Groningen University recruited 11 men and 13 women, together with their respective partners.


Isn't this a very small sample from which to draw a general conclusion?


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