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News & ArtsFriday, January 23, 2009
Sex What a Wonderful Word
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM
From the Times Magazine:
The participants [in the sex experiment] sat in a brown leatherette La-Z-Boy chair in her small lab at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, a prestigious psychiatric teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, where Chivers was a postdoctoral fellow and where I first talked with her about her research a few years ago. The genitals of the volunteers were connected to plethysmographs —for the men, an apparatus that fits over the penis and gauges its swelling; for the women, a little plastic probe that sits in the vagina and, by bouncing light off the vaginal walls, measures genital blood flow. An engorgement of blood spurs a lubricating process called vaginal transudation: the seeping of moisture through the walls. The participants were also given a keypad so that they could rate how aroused they felt.A lovely, lovely word to form in one's mouth: transudation.
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I love how the pictures accompanying articles like this one are always so erotic- they have nothing to do with the study, they just wanted to throw them in there to grab your attention. SEX! SEX! SEX HERE!
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Charles, you know we are doing this very same type of research - plethysmographs and all - locally, yes? I'll shoot you an email on it.
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Ooh, ooh, I participated in a research study that used plethysmographs at the UW!
The study was looking at alcohol's effect on sexual arousal. Sadly, I was in the control (no booze) group, but I did get paid to watch porn.
The study was looking at alcohol's effect on sexual arousal. Sadly, I was in the control (no booze) group, but I did get paid to watch porn.
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Oooo, oooo, put my bare butt on a brown leatherette La-Z-Boy and you won't even need to crank up the video!
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Every time the U of T Centre for Addiction and Mental Health pops up in a news story, I cringe a little: I had more than one friend go batshit crazy while I was an undergrad, and I had the opportunity to escort them to this facility. It is good. This hospital knows what they are doing, but it is forbidding.
In other words, I would find it very, very difficult to get an erection within its walls.
In other words, I would find it very, very difficult to get an erection within its walls.
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