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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Well, I don't like to brag...
Hey, I am a professional...or I was...
Oh, and I'm cuddly too!  ;-)

On a more serious note, this is actually pretty old hat.  Scientists
have seen this reaction from stimulation of nerves and certain areas of
the brain for many years.  I guess they have finally just gotten the
idea that sex is big money.

And before anyone goes out and spends 22k on this, try this $139
machine.  Numerous people swear by it...and techtv even tested it for an
episode of TechLive...and it supposedly worked as billed.
http://www.slightesttouch.com/pages/solve_arousal_gap.asp  
http://www.techtv.com/news/shownotes/story/0,24195,3548908,00.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Beckett
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:13 PM
> To: Internetworkers
> Subject: [internetworkers] orgasm machine
> 
> For some reason, this was picked up by overseas news organizations and
> not on the U.S. news wires.  But anyhow, it's right in our backyard.
> 
>
<http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=3897
32
> 4&section=news>
> 
> Women Needed to Test Orgasm Machine
> Wed 26 November, 2003 19:03
> 
> 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 skeptical 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 ($22,000).
> 
> "I don't see it any differently from procedures such as breast
> implants," Meloy told the magazine.
> 
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