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Confirming What You Already Knew

Ejaculation turns off men’s brains.

Comments (7)

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well, can't we have a break from thinking about how bad cars are to enjoy ourselves for a few seconds? if you don't like it, i hear women have no sexual orientation, so i guess you could just change us out for a lover that doesn't ejaculate and keeps her mental state throughout orgasm...

ddv

Posted by ddv | April 10, 2007 11:48 AM
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Only when I'm with you, Erica.

Posted by Will in Seattle | April 10, 2007 12:51 PM
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Eureka! Now I know why I feel like I've been developing Down's syndrome! It's all the wanking and deactivated frontal cortex activity! Thanks, Slog!

Posted by jackie treehorn | April 10, 2007 1:16 PM
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uh..what?...duh...i don't not understand what you meen....

Posted by michael strangeways | April 10, 2007 2:00 PM
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If only we could turn off yours *RIMSHOT*

Posted by Gomez | April 10, 2007 2:31 PM
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I know that you got your title from your link, and I know that they were just trying to be funny, but this research in no way implies that brain activity is "turned off" in men during ejaculation. It would be accurate to say that metabolism is modulated up in certain areas and down in others, but these PET data can't even tell us basic info about the cell types that are involved. PET and fMRI studies always seem to get play in the popular press, but their usefulness is fairly narrow. And they always seem to be presented in a way that seems to support the "we only use 10% of our brains" myth.

Posted by NerdoScientist | April 10, 2007 2:43 PM
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The world would be a better place if men's orgasms were half as long and as good as women's.

Posted by elswinger | April 10, 2007 2:46 PM

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