She Had Sex with Her Husband in an MRI Tube?
Casting about for something that will improve their ratings on this weekend’s Science Saturday diavlog, eminent science journalists John Horgan and George Johnson hit on the bright idea of talking about “sex chips,” neural implants that improve orgasm. And from there, they wandered into all sorts of peculiar sex-and-science related topics. Naturally, having once written an ErosBlog post on this theme I couldn’t resist giving a listen. I must confess that what follows is surely eleven of the most hilarious minutes ever to be recorded on Science Saturday.
And before I hear you all grumble “Faustus, you setting the bar for comedy far too low here,” I suggest you watch it for yourselves:
(Note: The Bloggerheads.tv linking-and-embedding system has a clip length limit, so the clip above is only the first eight of the recommended eleven minutes. You’ll be invited to finish viewing on a remote website if you watch all the way through the embedded clip, or you can navigate this link now.)
I don’t think I can add much more, except that the book John and George are referencing is Mary Roach’s Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, and also that when George makes a comment to the effect that “they’d better encrypt that remote,” I can only observe that the erotic artist was there first:
Heh. Now you have to watch it.
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I know that comments are supposed to be all positive regarding what turns others on, but incest squicks me out. Maybe she is “crying uncle.” Or, maybe incest would be hot to me if I had a niece like that.
Also, despite the apparent security problems, I want my sex chip with bluetooth when that day comes. It’s like setting you phone to vibrate, but easier to clean your phone.
What is the comic? It looks quite interesting.
The comic is Click! by Milo Manara.
And, Bleys, I’m a little bit puzzled why you would feel the urge to share your squick, when you know that’s not a particularly welcome form of feedback in this community, nor one that contributes to anybody else’s enjoyment of the material under discussion. Also, I think you know that there’s no requirement that all comments be positive; rather, it’s negative comments about other people’s pleasure wiring that are forbidden, due to their inherent incivility. Your own comment skirts the line but is sufficiently grounded in your own personal reactions to avoid moderation.
I also gotta say that at worst, we’re talking about implied incest, since there’s no actual sex shown in those panels; and what’s more, there’s a third person in the scene, so who’s doing what to whom is somewhat ambiguous. Top all that off with the thought that no actual humans were lubriciously involved in the assembly of these brightly colored pixels, and I’ve got to conclude that you are awfully easy to squick.
I’m sorry I skirted the line, Bacchus, but it was hard to resist. I think there has to be some sort of ethical shift about incest in the modern world where we have birth control and (*gasp*) abortion. I know it’s not relevant to this topic, but I have a hard time scratching that intellectual itch in my personal life. Awkward silences ensue with all but my closest friends when I ask “You don’t think incest is that bad, do you?” However the question needs to be asked. If not on the internets, full of libertarian and anarchist ideals; on a sex blog with a keen eye for the perverse, then where?
If this quasi-apologetic comment isn’t moderated out of existence (which I would understand), then I would like readers to ask themselves if a threesome with some twins (hot!) is really all that different than a brother and sister in the privacy of their home (in a world with birth control, abortion, no eugenics, etc.), or….should it be?
Sorry about tip-toeing around it in my first comment, but, like I said, I knew it wasn’t really relevant to the topic at hand.
back to the video, most accurate use of “Seminal paper” as a pun ever.
MRI tubes are pretty small. It’s impressive two people managed to have sex in one.
I remember this comic! If I’m not mistaken, it was a running series in Penthouse, about a girl who gets turned on by remote control? I only read one installment – I was in my early teens, and not a regular Penthouse reader – nor am I now – anyway, it was one of the first instances of spanking/flagellation in a sexual context that I’d come across. As this was and is my primary kink, the strip has stayed in my mind. Great find!