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is this the future of the female orgasm....? 
er, so... where do I sign up?
"Orgasmatron inventor seeks female volunteers"
Clinical trials of the spinal implant have begun in the US with a call for more women to take part - but others think the device is unnecessary
Women who cannot have orgasms can now have a device implanted in their spines that will trigger the sensation for them. Clinical trials of the "orgasmatron" have begun in the US, with the approval of the Food and Drug Administration.
The device was the focus of massive media attention two years ago, after New Scientist broke the news of its existence and used the term orgasmatron to describe it....
.... one woman has completed the first stage of the trial, and one other is now being signed up. Meloy hopes to find eight more to complete the first stage of the study, in which wires connected to a battery pack are inserted through the skin and into the woman's spinal cord.
Remote control !!!!
The procedure is no riskier than an epidural, Meloy says. But epidurals can cause complications such as backache in up to a fifth of women. In the second stage, a self-contained device resembling a pacemaker will be implanted beneath the skin, switched on and off with a remote control.
Meloy, a pain specialist at Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, stumbled on the idea while performing a routine pain-relief operation on a woman. During this procedure, two electrodes are inserted in the patient's spine and tiny pulses of electricity are applied.
Patients are kept conscious throughout the operation so that they can say when they feel less pain. During one such operation, the patient began exclaiming emphatically. When Meloy asked what was up, she said, "You're going to have to teach my husband to do that."
....Paula Hall, a sex therapist with the UK counselling service Relate, says that most cases of sexual dysfunction are caused by psychological factors. "Lack of self-awareness and not experimenting enough are the most common reasons," she says. "In situations where all else has failed, some people might consider surgery, but I don't think having an operation is going to catch on."
But Meloy is confident that it will. "I don't see it any differently from procedures such as breast implants," he says.
er, so... where do I sign up?
Yeah, like what, masturbation? since when was the right to having an orgasm a crime? guys have had the "hand mechanics" and path to guaranteed orgasm installed by nature since day one; now it seems we're getting a more sophisticated 'helping hand' -( cos more often than not - 'nature' tends to fail...) to, er - "stand in" for where nature left off
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