“Look, Doctor, No Hands!”
In the recent long Wired article on the science of female arousal, I learned for the first time of ladies who can “think off” or achieve orgasm without any external stimulation:
Getting good images of the aroused female brain is easy. It’s orgasm that’s the problem. In the doughnut, the slightest head movement ruins the scan. Even if a test subject holds her head perfectly still while masturbating, the parts of the brain responsible for motor control are switched on, muddying the picture. “You’ll see vaginal sensory input to the brain,” Komisaruk says, “but you’ll also get motor activity of the arms and hands, as well as sensory input from them.” To get clean data, he needed to find someone able to achieve orgasm without touching herself.
Vicky – not her real name – is one of these women. A California college student, she can climax by “thinking off.” She contacted Komisaruk after hearing about his work from one of his other test subjects at a party.
“It’s amusing to tell people that I jack off in an fMRI for science,” says Vicky, quickly adding that the process is more like work than sex. A typical day of research begins with Vicky lying on the fMRI machine’s bed; Komisaruk and his team strap down her head. Then she’s fed into the doughnut and the machine begins taking pictures, a process Vicky describes as “loud and clunky.” She stimulates herself by contracting her vaginal muscles rhythmically and controlling her breathing for 26 minutes.
Vicky and the imaging team worked out a hand signal she can flash when she starts to orgasm. “Basically, my head was strapped to a board in an extremely loud machine, and I had to let them know when I was about to come, so they could mark it on the computer,” she laughs. “Whoo – so sexy!”
“We got excellent data from her,” says Komisaruk, who adds that Vicky is one of 12 women in his study who can “think off.” “Because there is no distraction related to movements and sensory input from arms and hands,” he explains, “it illuminates the brain activity involved in producing the orgasm.”
If guys could routinely do this, we’d never have clean underwear.
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It’s gotta be possible for men, remember wet dreams? I’ve known a few women who can do it, but it seems rare indeed. Nice skill, though, for those who can do it!
That’s a really impressive talent for those who have it. Use it well! ;)
While I don’t know the details, I know a guy who claims to be able to do this.
I can do it, but it takes a lot of the right stimulation or desire for me to want to go there. Sounds stupid, doesn’t it? The thing is, it’s work. A lot of work. Still, for science? Sure, why not.
I was going to ask about guys doing this, I managed a version using only my thumb on the tip but that doesn’t count.
God help us when we get to Groucho’s stage when after recieving some life-time award for cinema, he said, “I’d give this award away just for one good erection”.
Hey! I can do that, too! I wonder if he still needs test subject?!?
heh…I can have a orgasm without an erection but I would have to be face down in the MRI.
Cum to think off it, I do that too. ;)
What was worrying me was that they were trying to get rid of extranous arm movement brain signals, what about the ones she was releasing and contracting in her groin? Surely they’d show up in the brain activity map.
Yep, me too. Do it all the time, usually when looking at my lover’s photo. Doesn’t take me 26 minutes though. ;)
DTG xxoo
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Well I’m better than you lot cause I can do it in my sleep. :hehe:
Yeah, right!
The question that immediately springs to mind is this: why is the poor woman expected to do this unaided? Couldn’t some nice PhD student in a white coat get down and eat the poor girl out? Then she wouldn’t have to move any muscles. Pictures please!
i started learning to do this little trick when i was 12 yrs old! :blush: i was one horny little beatch