chandra Posted June 20, 2005 Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=...ility_orgasm_dc No faking female orgasm in scientific research By Patricia Reaney Mon Jun 20, 8:41 AM ET COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Women may be able to fool their partners by faking an orgasm but a brain scanner will catch them out every time, a conference heard Monday. Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have used scans to show that different areas of the brain are stimulated during an orgasm but are not activated when a woman fakes it. "Women can imitate orgasm quite well," Gert Holstege told a fertility meeting Monday. "But there is nothing really happening in the brain." He and colleagues took brain scans of 13 women and 11 men, aged 19-49 who had volunteered for the study, while they were being sexually stimulated by their partner and during an orgasm and compared them to images of their brains at rest. "We wanted to know what the brain was doing during orgasm," Holstege said. When women genuinely achieved an orgasm, areas of the brain involved in fear and emotion were deactivated. Those areas stayed alert however when women were faking it. The researchers also found that the cortex, which is linked with consciousness, is active during a fake orgasm but not during the real thing. "The deactivation of these very important parts of the brain might be the most important thing necessary to have an orgasm," said Holstege. "It means that if you are fearful or at a very high level of anxiety, then it is very difficult to have sex because you really have to let yourself go," he added. The brain scans for men during orgasm were less conclusive, according to Holstege. But they did show that different parts of the male and female brain are activated and deactivated during sexual stimulation. The researchers found less deactivation in the males in the areas of the brain linked to emotion and fear when they were sexually stimulated. They are now planning further studies to compared the male and female brains during orgasm. About 5,300 delegates are attending the 4-day meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son-of-a-Weizen Posted June 20, 2005 Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 wow, fun job.... Yeah, I can just imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolff Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 (edited) Women faking orgasm? How bizarre!!! Edited June 21, 2005 by wolff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricia Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 (edited) No woman can truly fake orgasm. She can fool her partner, if he isn't familiar with what changes she experiences during an actual orgasm that she is having one though. It isn't about what she says or does to her partner. It's about actual physical changes that happen to her during the real thing. Considering how many women fake orgasm, I can't help but think that the majority of partners can't tell the difference. The larger problem is that she is not experiencing the release that her partner takes for granted, I think. I have no idea what happens in a woman's brain, or a man's for that matter. I do know that there are definite physical changes during real orgasm that cannot be faked. Whether their partner just prefers to just believe her when she says she experienced orgasm is a whole other thing. And yes it does matter. Edited June 21, 2005 by patricia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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