Ecstasy trigger on trial
Dec 01, 2003
PARIS—US doctors are casting around for female volunteers to test an “Orgasmatron,†an implanted device that will trigger instant ecstasy, the weekly British magazine New Scientist reported last Saturday issue
PARIS—US doctors are casting around for female volunteers to test an “Orgasmatron,†an implanted device that will trigger instant ecstasy, the weekly British magazine New Scientist reported last Saturday issue.
The innovation was accidentally discovered more than two years ago, when a surgeon conducted a routine pain-relief operation on a woman.
The procedure entails inserting two electrodes into spine and applying tiny pulses of electricity. Patients are conscious throughout the operation so that they can say when they feel less pain.
The woman had a spontaneous orgasm, and that prompted the surgeon, Stuart Meloy, to take the idea further. He found that it worked so well for women who had chronic sex problems that he patented as a possible treatment for female sexual dysfunction.
He has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to test a $13,000 orgasm-giving device about the size of a heart pacemaker.
AFP
The innovation was accidentally discovered more than two years ago, when a surgeon conducted a routine pain-relief operation on a woman.
The procedure entails inserting two electrodes into spine and applying tiny pulses of electricity. Patients are conscious throughout the operation so that they can say when they feel less pain.
The woman had a spontaneous orgasm, and that prompted the surgeon, Stuart Meloy, to take the idea further. He found that it worked so well for women who had chronic sex problems that he patented as a possible treatment for female sexual dysfunction.
He has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to test a $13,000 orgasm-giving device about the size of a heart pacemaker.
AFP