Women's brains switch off during sex

[Menydh]

No faking female orgasm in scientific research

Reuters
June 20, 2005

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.


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[Carnyx]

he, he, I wonder how many guys learned that their "partener" (bad word, sounds like a deal) were actually faking the orgasm each time they had sex.

[Gil]

Hmmm... now men are faced with two questions: "was that an orgasm or is she brain dead?"

[Danish Pride]

Originally Posted by Manji

Hmmm... now men are faced with two questions: "was that an orgasm or is she brain dead?"

[Nerthus]

According to certain men, women's brains are permanently switched off

[Gil]

Originally Posted by Aeternitas

According to certain men, women's brains are permanently switched off

Phlegethon dixit?

[Blood Axis]

Originally Posted by Aeternitas

According to certain men, women's brains are permanently switched off

I wonder who these certain men are

[Blood Axis]

Originally Posted by Manji

Phlegethon dixit?

Smart cookie

[Awar]

Wow! So women have orgasms all the time, 24 hrs a day!

[Goswin_van_Eyck]

Originally Posted by Blood Axis

I wonder who these certain men are

Women are the most overrated creatures in the Universe...and their brain just mimick intellectualism in a wilful strategy to lure doughty men of great intellectual, artistic and spiritual capacity into their proverbial tentacles and satisfy their desire to play with tiny little bald puppets of flesh and blood who communicate in some subhuman, out-of-the-worldly gargle and screech drawl and pollute the fresh air with their excretions.

Only women and perverts fly up in extasy for these odoriferous crap...

[Menydh]

Good Heavens..

I think that now we know.

[Phlegethon]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Women may be able to fool their partners by faking an orgasm but a brain scanner will catch them out every time

I wonder what this scanner is supposed to scan there. The speed of the wind blowing through her ears?

[Rusalka]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

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.

No shit. They actually spent time to research this?

I would expect a little more common sense from researchers at the University of Groningen. So, the brain is actually, like, when you get excited, certain areas get triggered but they don't if you're not actually excited? Find of the century.

[Rusalka]

Originally Posted by Goswin_van_Eyck

Only women and perverts fly up in extasy for these odoriferous crap...

Odoriferous crap being? I'm just curious, cause if we're talking about sex, I'm sure I have heard of more than a few men "switching off" and losing their heads in "extacy" too. I have to give it to you guys though, women have got the bigger share when it comes to the 'e', so nyer nyer.

[Phlegethon]

Originally Posted by Rusalka

I would expect a little more common sense from researchers at the University of Groningen.

I am quite sure females spent years and years researching that matter. Would have been easier to ask me instead.

[Phlegethon]

The head of the research team: