Orgasm Implant Trials Stall
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Orgasm implant trials stall
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Thursday November 27, 2003
The Guardian
Trials of an implant that promises to give women an orgasm at the push of a button have stalled because of a lack of volunteers to test it.
To date, just one woman has completed a trial - though she described its effect as "really excellent foreplay".
The implant represents two years' work following a chance discovery by an American surgeon that tiny electric shocks to nerves in a particular region of the spine sent women into a high state of arousal.
Stuart Meloy, a pain specialist at Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in North Carolina, made the discovery while performing a routine pain-relief procedure to insert fine wires into a woman's spine and give harmless electric shocks to alleviate persistent pain in her legs.
During the operation, however, it became clear that the wires were touching the wrong nerves to control the pain, but the right ones to make the woman "exclaim emphatically", said Dr Meloy.
He patented the procedure in the hope of making an implant for women unable to achieve orgasm otherwise. He now has a working implant, but despite the operation to fit it being, he says, no more risky than an epidural, he is having difficulty finding volunteers.
Orgasm implant trials stall
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Thursday November 27, 2003
The Guardian
Trials of an implant that promises to give women an orgasm at the push of a button have stalled because of a lack of volunteers to test it.
To date, just one woman has completed a trial - though she described its effect as "really excellent foreplay".
The implant represents two years' work following a chance discovery by an American surgeon that tiny electric shocks to nerves in a particular region of the spine sent women into a high state of arousal.
Stuart Meloy, a pain specialist at Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in North Carolina, made the discovery while performing a routine pain-relief procedure to insert fine wires into a woman's spine and give harmless electric shocks to alleviate persistent pain in her legs.
During the operation, however, it became clear that the wires were touching the wrong nerves to control the pain, but the right ones to make the woman "exclaim emphatically", said Dr Meloy.
He patented the procedure in the hope of making an implant for women unable to achieve orgasm otherwise. He now has a working implant, but despite the operation to fit it being, he says, no more risky than an epidural, he is having difficulty finding volunteers.
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