Posted on 06/20/2005 8:52:36 AM PDT by pissant
Women may be able to fool their partners by faking an orgasm but a brain scanner will catch them out every time, a conference heard Monday.
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have used scans to show that different areas of the brain are stimulated during an orgasm but are not activated when a woman fakes it.
"Women can imitate orgasm quite well," Gert Holstege told a fertility meeting Monday. "But there is nothing really happening in the brain."
He and colleagues took brain scans of 13 women and 11 men, aged 19-49 who had volunteered for the study, while they were being sexually stimulated by their partner and during an orgasm and compared them to images of their brains at rest.
"We wanted to know what the brain was doing during orgasm," Holstege said.
When women genuinely achieved an orgasm, areas of the brain involved in fear and emotion were deactivated. Those areas stayed alert however when women were faking it.
The researchers also found that the cortex, which is linked with consciousness, is active during a fake orgasm but not during the real thing.
"The deactivation of these very important parts of the brain might be the most important thing necessary to have an orgasm," said Holstege.
"It means that if you are fearful or at a very high level of anxiety, then it is very difficult to have sex because you really have to let yourself go," he added.
The brain scans for men during orgasm were less conclusive, according to Holstege.
But they did show that different parts of the male and female brain are activated and deactivated during sexual stimulation.
The researchers found less deactivation in the males in the areas of the brain linked to emotion and fear when they were sexually stimulated.
They are now planning further studies to compared the male and female brains during orgasm.
About 5,300 delegates are attending the 4-day meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
Down boy.....it isn't what you're hopin'....
Missyme told me.
I expect no less...(we'll?)
5,300! What a gig...
hmmmmmmm your mystique grows........
I see.....
I meant "they'll". Sorry
Bunches of horny scientists...
He's the ugly twin....
;o)
Ok...don't let it happen again! ;)
THAT does it!!! I'm officially becoming a stalker! You've been warned! ;-)
I guess I'm lucky. I never have to fake it. :-)
darn typos can haunt me....
My Wife would like that. LOL
Yes you are! In many ways...
I don't think women should fake it. How is a man going to figure out what he's doing wrong if you pretend to enjoy yourself?
That's assuming of course that the man cares about pleasing the woman. ;-)
I agree with you totally! ;)
I thought we used our checkbooks for that. ;o)
And training a man to do things the right way is so much fun, too. ;-)
A willing "student" is a beautiful thing! ;)
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