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No faking female orgasm in scientific research
Reuters ^ | 6/20/05 | Patricia Reaney

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.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: brain; bravenewworld; o; orgasm; scan
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To: najida

I don't know whether to laugh at him or feel sorry for him...


81 posted on 06/20/2005 1:04:21 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

He was a gold-plated, self-centered jerk....but it was no surprise.


82 posted on 06/20/2005 1:04:36 PM PDT by najida (I was raised by a pack of rabid hyenas.)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

Yup...that's quite true.


83 posted on 06/20/2005 1:04:43 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

Well...I'm tempted but I'll be good...


84 posted on 06/20/2005 1:05:20 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: pissant

If guys had ANY knowledge about the female body, and what it does during an orgasm, they would know when its fake.


85 posted on 06/20/2005 1:06:07 PM PDT by rintense
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To: RockinRight

Thanks you. :-)

Besides I could be wearing granny panties and an old t-shirt.


86 posted on 06/20/2005 1:06:55 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (We are merely players, performers & portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage)
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To: N. Theknow


FOTFLOL!


87 posted on 06/20/2005 1:07:06 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: rintense

Well said. As a man, I will say this-the more you know about a woman's body, and the more you can please her, the more YOU will benefit...


88 posted on 06/20/2005 1:10:18 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: pissant; eyespysomething
I'm guessing you could be in trouble here...

LOL! I pretty much stay in trouble, but luckily I'm so good looking she can't stay mad at me for long.

89 posted on 06/20/2005 1:37:46 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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To: SittinYonder; pissant
I pretty much stay in trouble, but luckily I'm so good looking she has such a good sense of humor she can't stay mad at me for long.
90 posted on 06/20/2005 1:41:01 PM PDT by eyespysomething ( A penny saved is a government oversight)
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To: pissant
Damn, man, how about a ping?
91 posted on 06/20/2005 2:17:03 PM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
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To: RockinRight
I've heard (cough, cough, hack!...ahem) the best boinking to be had is when you are both going at it with the (imaginary) intent of making the gal preggers. This makes much sense, as this is what the system is designed for - sail with the winds of Mother Nature, not against them.

Of course, whether you actually intend to get he gal pregnant is another matter entirely, and should be taken into account up front....especially when using the above strategy in bed. :^)

92 posted on 06/20/2005 2:56:55 PM PDT by Yossarian (Remember: NOT ALL HEART ATTACKS HAVE TRADITIONAL SYMPTOMS)
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To: pissant
Women may be able to fool their partners by faking an orgasm but a "brain scanner" will catch them out every time



Disclaimer: This WILL NOT work on blonds for obvious
reasons.
93 posted on 06/20/2005 2:56:56 PM PDT by WKB (A closed mind is a good thing to lose.)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife
...their own pleasure is doubled if their women are enjoying themselves.

You hit the nail on the head there young Lady!

Nam Vet

94 posted on 06/20/2005 3:23:24 PM PDT by Nam Vet (There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
I get a little help from the very nice & helpful people at VS. I just give them the same sort of clueless look like women give mechanics and they are real good to me.

LOL, I do the same thing... hoping I can get one to model some of those outfits for me... !!!

95 posted on 06/20/2005 3:24:56 PM PDT by dfwddr
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To: EX52D

Willing, able and ready.

Where do I register for class?


96 posted on 06/20/2005 3:33:54 PM PDT by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

Me active?

No, I just lay there.


97 posted on 06/20/2005 3:35:15 PM PDT by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: WKB

Disclaimer: This WILL NOT work on blonds for obvious
reasons.




ROTFLYYKWO! Best repy of the thread.


98 posted on 06/20/2005 10:59:25 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: pissant

Oh my...I see Hugh is up to more research ;)


99 posted on 06/21/2005 7:04:11 AM PDT by mistress_of_tantra (It is too damn hot to think of anything witty....)
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To: mistress_of_tantra

ROFL!!


100 posted on 06/21/2005 7:13:14 AM PDT by pissant
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