Why Your Orgasm Won"t Ever Come at the Push of a Button
A North Carolina surgeon has been working for more than a decade on an idea for a medical device which he claims will, at the push of a button, deliver an orgasm.
An article in the New Scientist claims that the surgeon, Dr. Stuart Meloy, expects clinical trials to begin "later this year" on his spinal implant that delivers electrical impulses to targeted nerves in the spine producing spontaneous orgasm in the wearer of said internal device (do you wear something that's inside your body, or does it wear you?).
It's an odd claim since it is verbatim what New Scientist said he claimed back in 2001 when they first reported on the invention. I wouldn't hold my breath.
I'm skeptical on many levels, but it all starts with the origin story provided by the good doctor. He's been quoted many times over the years explaining how he came up with the idea. Here from the Huffington Post:
The woman was being treated for a pain condition at the time. What he's claiming is that this woman was neither thinking about sex nor desiring it, and in a completely non-sexual context she experienced an orgasm as a result of nerve stimulation. This story is told as a stupid sex joke (the joke being that all men are bumbling fools incapable of having mutually satisfying sex and all women are incapable of communicating clearly about their sexual desires and needs...that's funny, right?)
So if the sex jokes and 13 year gap in promises weren't enough to make you wary of this idea, here's why it's never going to work.
Orgasm isn't only a physiological response. Orgasm isn't just muscle contractions, just blood flow, or just nerve stimulation. The things that our bodies do that we recognize as part of orgasm aren't the sum total of what an orgasm is. An orgasm is an experience. It is something that WE experience. Which means it involves our perception of an experience.
Even if this spinal implant could reliably deliver specific physiological responses, they won't be orgasms. And the idea that you can push a button and give yourself or someone else an orgasm regardless of the context is a sort of mind-blowingly reductive understanding of sexual response.
It's not a bad way to get people to click on an article though. And it may not be a bad way to get attention for your practice, or to attract the attention of investors. But if you aren't looking for money or clicks money, and what you really want is an orgasm, here are some better orgasm leads for you.
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An article in the New Scientist claims that the surgeon, Dr. Stuart Meloy, expects clinical trials to begin "later this year" on his spinal implant that delivers electrical impulses to targeted nerves in the spine producing spontaneous orgasm in the wearer of said internal device (do you wear something that's inside your body, or does it wear you?).
It's an odd claim since it is verbatim what New Scientist said he claimed back in 2001 when they first reported on the invention. I wouldn't hold my breath.
I'm skeptical on many levels, but it all starts with the origin story provided by the good doctor. He's been quoted many times over the years explaining how he came up with the idea. Here from the Huffington Post:
"I was placing the electrodes and suddenly the woman started exclaiming emphatically," Meloy said. "I asked her what was up and she said, 'You're going to have to teach my husband to do that'."
The woman was being treated for a pain condition at the time. What he's claiming is that this woman was neither thinking about sex nor desiring it, and in a completely non-sexual context she experienced an orgasm as a result of nerve stimulation. This story is told as a stupid sex joke (the joke being that all men are bumbling fools incapable of having mutually satisfying sex and all women are incapable of communicating clearly about their sexual desires and needs...that's funny, right?)
So if the sex jokes and 13 year gap in promises weren't enough to make you wary of this idea, here's why it's never going to work.
Orgasm isn't only a physiological response. Orgasm isn't just muscle contractions, just blood flow, or just nerve stimulation. The things that our bodies do that we recognize as part of orgasm aren't the sum total of what an orgasm is. An orgasm is an experience. It is something that WE experience. Which means it involves our perception of an experience.
Even if this spinal implant could reliably deliver specific physiological responses, they won't be orgasms. And the idea that you can push a button and give yourself or someone else an orgasm regardless of the context is a sort of mind-blowingly reductive understanding of sexual response.
It's not a bad way to get people to click on an article though. And it may not be a bad way to get attention for your practice, or to attract the attention of investors. But if you aren't looking for money or clicks money, and what you really want is an orgasm, here are some better orgasm leads for you.
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