Superiority further established
Ashley Montagu, back around 1952, wrote a book called The Natural Superiority of Women, which, he said, was “a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.” The acknowledgment of such reality, I seem to recall, was grudging at best in the 1950s. (Then again, I had no clue about girls, who until about 1960, as far as I was concerned, were simply those other kids in the neighborhood.)
The whole multiple-orgasms thing, by now, is old news, but one peripheral bit of information in this particular study drew my attention:
The researchers asked eight women to stimulate themselves while lying under a blanket inside an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner, a tunnel-like machine often used to detect brain tumours.
Most women took less than five minutes to reach an orgasm although some took as long as 20.
And I am forced to concede my inferiority here. Stick me in an MRI, and I’ll scream like Meg Ryan at Katz’s Delicatessen, but not because I’m enjoying myself.
(Via Jammie Wearing Fool.)
sya »
8 November 2010 · 2:59 pm
In Bonk by Mary Roach, the researchers had to resort to using little blue pills to get the guys to perform in an MRI.
CGHill »
8 November 2010 · 3:06 pm
I will no doubt hate myself for asking, but, um, what were they researching?
sya »
8 November 2010 · 7:06 pm
They were doing something similar to this. So there was actually two people in the MRI. With the doctors watching, of course.