Transterrestrial Musings  


Amazon Honor System Click Here to Pay

Space
Alan Boyle (MSNBC)
Space Politics (Jeff Foust)
Space Transport News (Clark Lindsey)
NASA Watch
NASA Space Flight
Hobby Space
A Voyage To Arcturus (Jay Manifold)
Dispatches From The Final Frontier (Michael Belfiore)
Personal Spaceflight (Jeff Foust)
Mars Blog
The Flame Trench (Florida Today)
Space Cynic
Rocket Forge (Michael Mealing)
COTS Watch (Michael Mealing)
Curmudgeon's Corner (Mark Whittington)
Selenian Boondocks
Tales of the Heliosphere
Out Of The Cradle
Space For Commerce (Brian Dunbar)
True Anomaly
Kevin Parkin
The Speculist (Phil Bowermaster)
Spacecraft (Chris Hall)
Space Pragmatism (Dan Schrimpsher)
Eternal Golden Braid (Fred Kiesche)
Carried Away (Dan Schmelzer)
Laughing Wolf (C. Blake Powers)
Chair Force Engineer (Air Force Procurement)
Spacearium
Saturn Follies
JesusPhreaks (Scott Bell)
Journoblogs
The Ombudsgod
Cut On The Bias (Susanna Cornett)
Joanne Jacobs


Site designed by


Powered by
Movable Type
Biting Commentary about Infinity, and Beyond!

« Dogs And Cats Living Together | Main | Can You Rape A Dog? »

Imagine My Shock

...to discover that women can fake org@sms. I found this part interesting:

When women genuinely achieved an org@sm, 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 org@sm but not during the real thing.

Sounds like fun research for all involved. You have to wonder, though, if some of the response is influenced by the experimenters. I'd think that it would be kind of hard for people to do what comes naturally when they know they're being observed. Sort of a variation on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

[Update on Monday evening]

At the risk of alienating a large (perhaps, even likely, intelligent) portion of my readership, I nonetheless feel compelled to ask, is this why blondes have more fun?

Posted by Rand Simberg at June 20, 2005 09:39 AM
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.transterrestrial.com/mt-diagnostics.cgi/3941

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference this post from Transterrestrial Musings.
Comments

I found it interesting that they found less change in the males. Seem to make sense to me these are behaviors that go way back. Women enjoying the experience can and need to really let go. In men however the alert mechanism is less able to disconnect…Hey someone needed to watch out for the lions.

Posted by JJS at June 20, 2005 10:21 AM

Hey someone needed to watch out for the lions.

Or for an angry husband...

Posted by Rand Simberg at June 20, 2005 10:27 AM

...yet more money spent on worthless research. Seinfeld set this right years ago.

Or as Elaine said "..yadda, yadda, yadda."

Posted by Steve at June 20, 2005 05:59 PM

...yet more money spent on worthless research. Seinfeld set this right years ago.

Set what right? And what makes the research worthless?

Posted by Karl Hallowell at June 21, 2005 01:01 PM


Post a comment
Name:


Email Address:


URL:


Comments: