Women needed to test orgasm device
Thursday, November 27, 2003 Posted: 0032 GMT ( 8:32 AM HKT)

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LONDON, England (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.

Sexual response
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 ($22,000).

"I don't see it any differently from procedures such as breast implants," Meloy told the magazine.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/eu...eut/index.html

Dude, if that was here, rather than in England, I'd so be on that.

yeah, put some electronic device in me since i can't figure out how to get myself off.

Poor Pattie. Rubs head. *whispers* Try babyoil, works wonders.



Actually, I re-read that I don't think I would jump at it now. The put shit in your spine, man. That's just... too serious for me.

bzzzzzzzzzt

Patty cakes is clueless about women...

hrm...if it weren't for that whole "electrode in spine" thing i might have gone and volunteered. but that's a wee bit too extreme for me.

$22,000 just to come? fuck that, i'll do it for half the price.

$22,000? wait i missed that part...

No, I think it said it's 22 g's FOR the product. If you volunteered you'd get it for free. Shit, if we got PAID 22,000 I'd fly to England RIGHT NOW!

They pay you the cash because there's a large chance of infection. Puting an electrode in your body can do all kinds of nasty shit to you. Also, it can't be there forever. You have to get it removed at some point. There's also a good chance that your body could try to reject it, and it being that close to your spine, there's no telling what kind of damage can be done...You probably have to sign a waiver of some sorts..


This is also for women who have trouble reaching climax. Alas, I'm sure many of us do not apply.

"The clitoris is real... yeah, it's the female orgasm... THAT'S the myth"

and how's that billy boy?

ou just are..everyhting you say about them indicates a vast lack of experience with the female gender.. but im sure youll tell me its all in my head. But the fact is that many women cannot reach orgasm easily.. so telling them to just jack off or get themselves off is fairly idiotic.. i did date 1 girl once.. who could NOT cum... i had a 3.5 hours fuck session with her once.. non stop.. went through 5 or 6 condoms.. didnt finish the last one because i had nothing left and she STILL didnt cum... granted she is definately not a majority of women... ive dated girls that can cum within minutes...

if you fuck like you spell, i can see your problem.

plus you told me you weighed 130 pounds once... im guessing your 5'6?

and my height has what to do with this? 3.5 hrs seems kind of long for an italian. i'm surprised you lasted over 5 min.

im guessing i was pretty on mark with the 5'6 bit...
it is relevant because most women are 5'6 or 5'7 and they typically like to date men who are taller then they are. Short little men are usually lacking in dates and sexual experience because they dont..err measure up.

yes by the way 3 and a half hours is long... but the 5 second thing you got mixed up, italian stallion and latin lovers have always been the sterotypes for my kind... its the short stacked irish guys with 3 inchers that last only 5 seconds.

right billy. that's why you had to go fuck 200 women and a few men huh? sounds to me someone has an inadequacy problem.