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Scientists have patented a new machine that will provide orgasms for women at the push of a button.
A little smaller than a packet of cigarettes, the machine is designed to be a medical implant that uses electrodes to trigger an orgasm. The device would help some women who suffer from orgasmic dysfunction.
During the operation, a patient would remain conscious so that a surgeon could correctly pinpoint the right nerves to fit the electrodes in a patients spinal cord. Then, a signal generator would be connected which would be most likely implanted under the skin of a patients buttocks.
Stuart Meloy, a surgeon at Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in Winston-Salem, N.C., came up with idea by accident.
I was placing the electrodes and suddenly the woman started exclaiming emphatically, he said to Newscientist. I asked her what was up and she said, Youre going to have to teach my husband to do that.
http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2014/03/05/scientists-build-orgasm-machine-for-women/
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)You bad.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Ruby the Liberal
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polly7
(20,582 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,216 posts)What a waste of time.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)misogynistic or otherwise. I am clueless.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)were centered around the term.
Easier to alert than to discuss I guess - especially when you keep losing arguments.
Kurska
(5,739 posts)Looks like you made some enemies. Gee I wonder who its that is abusing the alert system for personal vendettas.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Yup, it's like a double reverse, turnaround thing from the 12th dimension.
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)What a waste of everyone's time, that alert.
Sounds like someone has a personal vendetta against The Straight Story.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Wtf.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Mmmmm, frustrating.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)no one takes DU that seriously, do they?
I mean, that's just sad.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)could use one of these newfangled machine thingies.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)The effect seems to be the same for some
edbermac
(15,919 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)Not the desired outcome, I'm guessing.
0-6 alert fails are shameful.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)seaglass
(8,170 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)As far as the machine goes, no thanks. Seems a bit creepy to me.
Captain Stern
(2,196 posts)They must have done it by accident.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Alerting on yourself..
1000words
(7,051 posts)"Exclaiming emphatically" repeatedly, better.
I see a bright future for this technology.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)to my Gary Kasparov...
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 7, 2014, 01:11 AM - Edit history (1)
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Between that and Jeffrey Julian DeMarco, the industrious gent who wrote his PhD thesis on maximizing the budding sites of cannabinoid plants...
who says Americans can't invent stuff anymore?
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Drew Richards
(1,558 posts)A cure both for loss of orgasm and those with the opposite affliction constant orgasms.
Orrex
(63,085 posts)Except that stuff about acupuncturists, of course.
Drew Richards
(1,558 posts)Orrex
(63,085 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Men honestly think all they are to women is an ATM machine? Or that women will "come" if you flash wads of $100 bills at them?
Apparently many of the men in Charlotte have no earthly idea how to satisfy a woman in the bedroom or out or they wouldn't be making those comments.
And, for the record, women don't need men for money any more.
TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)...comments on local TV and newspaper websites trend toward stupidly conservative.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)for about 9 months back in the 80s.
They tell me the scars will heal some day.
Drew Richards
(1,558 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Drew Richards
(1,558 posts)davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)I see a lot of crap on local news stories here in East Tennessee, but usually not that level of misogyny. I was expecting some of the usual crude jokes, of course, but some of these guys really think women just want to drive them out of existence.
Paranoid much, are they?
loudsue
(14,087 posts)When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)The history of "medical solutions" to this problem is a history of failed attempts. Even if you can produce an orgasm through electrical stimulation, you cannot reproduce the emotional and intellectual aspect of sexuality. And such a device will do little to help alleviate relationship or psychiatric issues.
This device will be helpful to those who really truly have an organic disease. But I somehow doubt most people fall under that category.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)suffering degenerative nerve diseases like MS, which can degrade nerve function and cause numbness or reduced sensation. It would provide stronger stimulation than is possible with "traditional" practices.
Token Republican
(242 posts)what she's having.
DiverDave
(4,874 posts)You guys crack me up...sometimes.
That was really funny.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)don't want little Sally setting mom off in the grocery store by pressing that "pretty blue button".
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)What happened 13 years ago was the anesthesiologist accidentally giving his patient an orgasm. The new development is that the phenomenon has been further researched and the engineering aspects have been addressed, so that now a specific device has reached the stage where it might be patentable. This story in New Scientist says it's been patented -- no guarantee of actual patentability, because many patents that are granted are later successfully challenged, but that's the real news hook.
New Scientist also reports: "Meloy has yet to test the device on men, but says there's no reason it shouldn't work in the same way."
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)She broke it, as I recall.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Drew Richards
(1,558 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)VScott
(774 posts)There's a reason we're known as a nation of industrialists, inventors and innovation.
Even Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Henry Ford would be proud, and amazed wondering to themselves "why didn't I think of that"?
edbermac
(15,919 posts)alittlelark
(18,886 posts)Cuz we want what we want......
Laffy Kat
(16,354 posts)Guess I could have the groceries delivered....
alittlelark
(18,886 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)oh wait, that was his roomba. and I didn't borrow it, he just brought it over for me to try.
and, fwiw, I don't think that it would do the job, but it's great if you have a cat.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Just for some historical context, I am linking to a short essay on how Victorian doctors dealt with women and their orgasms. I only learned this history a few years ago so maybe some other DU'ers might be interested:
http://jezebel.com/5914350/vibrators-and-clitoridectomies-how-victorian-doctors-took-control-of-womens-orgasms
Archae
(46,261 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)but also for the uplifting experience of being able to read the comments on an article without descending into despair. I mean, I didn't read them all, so there might be some from blatant idiots, but I was fortunate not to have encountered any of them.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)surgically implanted, I'm guessing in the SPINE? ew!!!! How come all the good stuff is complicated?
Oh well, I'll have to rely on the old standby - guys.
thesquanderer
(11,954 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)good one.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)western humanity is doomed.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)A victim would be coming and going at the same time.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)would meet her at the golden gates...
lame54
(35,138 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)imo: There really is nothing better than the real thing.
dembotoz
(16,739 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)TYY
ismnotwasm
(41,919 posts)It's a extremely invasive device, sounds like. It won't be used except on extreme cases. There are far too many nerves involved.
A decent vibrater is usually recommended I believe, as well as sex a therapist and there are a variety of those. A very skilled partner helps as well.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Just be careful who gets hold of the remote..
Baitball Blogger
(46,575 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)nm