Barry Komisaruk's orgasm research was a hot topic at this year's Society for Neuroscience conference. The Guardian asked me to blog about how one has an orgasm in an fMRI.
Excerpt:
The first question, invariably, is, "Excuse me? You had a what where?" It's not a surprise, really. People may not be shocked if you tell them you managed a wank on, say, the train or even in a public restroom. But when you announce that you took part in an orgasm study and managed to reach climax in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner as it recorded the blood flow in your brain? Well, that's not something one hears every day...
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NOTE: This piece was included in a round-up of the Guardian's best science stories of 2011.
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