# Your MRI or Mine, Women Orgasm for Science **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369 "2010-11-11T23:35:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/1 "2010-11-11T23:35:05Z")
I just had to bring attention to this delightful story.šŸ˜‰ > [@](#): > > In the first film of what goes on inside a womanā€™s brain as she approaches and then experiences orgasm, researchers recorded how sexual arousal generates a cascade of events that, at its peak, involves 30 parts of the brain. A woman not only experiences longer and deeper orgasms than a man, but they so overwhelm her nervous system that they leave her temporarily impervious to pain, the film shows.. [http://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/female-orgasm-overwhelms/story-e6frg3pl-1225949330869](http://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/female-orgasm-overwhelms/story-e6frg3pl-1225949330869) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/2 "2010-11-11T23:37:18Z")
As a woman, I am not surprised. I donā€™t know that I myself am impervious to pain at the exact time since I havenā€™t timed it. But I do know that my pain threshold DRAMATICALLY increases as I approach it. To the point where pain feels very very good. Whereas the same stimulation 5 minutes prior would have made me cry. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/3 "2010-11-12T02:24:30Z")
Nitpick: I believe, grammatically, it should be: ā€œWomen Orgasm for **SCIENCE!!** ā€ This just in! Dropped objects tend to fall downwards! I mean, really, didnā€™t everyone know this already? Or maybe just not in Australia? ā€“ A womanā€™s capacity for pleasure is infinite. A manā€™s gotta make do with whatever poor entertainments the world offers. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/4 "2010-11-12T02:50:08Z")
30 different parts, huh? What are they doing, thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/5 "2010-11-12T04:04:56Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > Nitpick: I believe, grammatically, it should be: ā€œWomen Orgasm for **SCIENCE!!** ā€ > > This just in! Dropped objects tend to fall downwards! > > I mean, really, didnā€™t everyone know this already? > > Or maybe just not in Australia? > > ā€“ > A womanā€™s capacity for pleasure is infinite. A manā€™s gotta make do with whatever poor entertainments the world offers. Maybe a lot of people feel it is true from experience, sure. What is the problem with attempting to confirm an experience-based hypothesis via scientific experiment? ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/6 "2010-11-12T04:11:50Z")
Nothing. Few things in life are more inherently interesting, and thus more worthy of study. I was trying to be amusing. ā€“ Well, except for the aussie-bashing. Australians burned down my village as a child, and Iā€™ve never been able to forgive them. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/7 "2010-11-12T04:18:16Z")
Is it wrong of me to think that a video of the scan would be kind of hot ā€¦ ? ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/8 "2010-11-12T04:27:37Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > Nothing. Few things in life are more inherently interesting, and thus more worthy of study. > > I was trying to be amusing. > > ā€“ > Well, except for the aussie-bashing. Australians burned down my village as a child, and Iā€™ve never been able to forgive them. Oh, sorry, I got wooshed. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/9 "2010-11-12T04:33:28Z")
Pffft. Female orgasms are just something Hilary Clinton and her gang of feminazi thugs made up in 1997. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/10 "2010-11-12T05:19:51Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > Nitpick: I believe, grammatically, it should be: ā€œWomen Orgasm for **SCIENCE!!** ā€ > > This just in! Dropped objects tend to fall downwards! > > I mean, really, didnā€™t everyone know this already? Well, youā€™d think more women would go for the sciences if it made them orgasmā€¦or maybe it keeps making them drop the test tubes. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/11 "2010-11-12T13:20:04Z")
I dispute the articleā€™s assertion that this was the first MRI of orgasmic response in women. [From earlier this year.](http://getbetterhealth.com/mri-of-the-female-orgasm/2010.04.25) [From 2005 (warning: PDF).](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16913288) The study in the last link makes references to previous MRIs done in the early 2000s. AFAIK widespread MRI use came on the scene in the mid '80s. If I was in charge of MRI studies youā€™d bet Iā€™d find a way to get masturbating women in my lab. Theyā€™ve done people having sex in MRIs too. ---
**Author:** ![Oukile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@Oukile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oukile)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/12 "2010-11-12T13:27:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Professor Komisaruk and his colleagues plan to show their film this month at Neuroscience 2010, a conference organised by the US Society for Neuroscience. And Iā€™ll be there ! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/13 "2010-11-12T13:46:03Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > I just had to bring attention to this delightful story.šŸ˜‰ > > [http://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/female-orgasm-overwhelms/story-e6frg3pl-1225949330869](http://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/female-orgasm-overwhelms/story-e6frg3pl-1225949330869) I WANT ONE! How come men are shortchanged when it comes to orgasms??šŸ˜• ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/14 "2010-11-12T14:48:53Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I WANT ONE! > How come men are shortchanged when it comes to orgasms??šŸ˜• We get to pee standing up. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/15 "2010-11-12T15:17:38Z")
Iā€™ve had MRIā€™s before, and you have to lie really, really still. I canā€™t imagine doing what they asked these women to do and remain really, really still. ---
**Author:** ![Oukile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@Oukile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oukile)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/16 "2010-11-12T15:52:53Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > Iā€™ve had MRIā€™s before, and you have to lie really, really still. I canā€™t imagine doing what they asked these women to do and remain really, really still. Well, the _head_ has to be still if you want to scan the brainā€¦ there are ways to do that. Make a dental imprint on dental cement then fix it to a plastic frame and have people bite on it, for instance. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/17 "2010-11-12T17:37:55Z")
I can think of few things less sexually stimulating than lying in an MRI machine. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/18 "2010-11-12T18:59:13Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > Iā€™ve had MRIā€™s before, and you have to lie really, really still. I canā€™t imagine doing what they asked these women to do and remain really, really still. ā€œPretend youā€™re married.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/19 "2010-11-12T19:00:40Z")
ā€œBeige. I think Iā€™ll paint the interior of the MRIā€¦ beige.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369/20 "2010-11-12T22:12:59Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > Iā€™ve had MRIā€™s before, and you have to lie really, really still. I canā€™t imagine doing what they asked these women to do and remain really, really still. Scientist: ā€œYes, that was a problem. Fortunately we found a subculture that was willing to help with our problemā€¦ā€ _\_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mri-or-mine-women-orgasm-for-science/560369.md?page=2)