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Sex in an MRI
Not too much to say about this one...pretty interesting.
Original story: http://blog.wired.com/sex/2007/02/mris_are_for_lo.html
I've hotlinked the full-sized image below the story to save people the effort of clicking.
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by Regina Lynn
MRIs Are for Lovers: Sex in a Scanner
Back in the 1990s, Dutch researchers stuck couples into MRI machines and took scans as they had sex.
Above is a scan of one couple sharing an intimate moment. (Click on the picture to, ahem, make it larger.)
Here's a key to the letters in the image:
P=penis, Ur=urethra, Pe=perineum, U=uterus, S=symphysis, B=bladder, I=intestine, L5=lumbar 5, Sc=scrotum
So what does this tell us?
Here are some take-home messages, courtesy of the study (which is eight years old but among the top viewed stories today on the website of the British Medical Journal):
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During `missionary position' intercourse the penis has the shape of a boomerang
During female sexual arousal without intercourse the uterus rises and the anterior vaginal wall lengthens
The size of the uterus does not increase during sexual arousal
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My favorite part of the study:
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We did not foresee that the men would have more problems with sexual performance (maintaining their erection) than the women in the scanner. [Blogger note: They actually had to bring in Viagra.] All the women had a complete sexual response, but they described their orgasm as superficial.
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Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal [BMJ]
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Last edited by SecretMethod70; 02-07-2007 at 06:03 AM..
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