Brain Areas Shut Off During Female Orgasm
...but this article gives new meaning to the phrase "fucking your brains out."
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2007
The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
Iron and Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
2006
1. Teddy Thompson: Separate Ways
2. Belle and Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
3. Scissor Sisters: Ta-Dah
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show Your Bones
5. Rosanne Cash: Black Cadillac
6. Bob Dylan: Modern Times
7. Brahms: The Piano Concertos (Nelson Freire)
8. John Mayer: Continuum
9. Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
10. KT Tunstall: Eye to the Telescope
2005
1. Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine
2. Antony and the Johnsons: I am a Bird Now
3. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
4. Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
5. Martha Wainwright: Martha Wainwright
6. Garbage: Bleed Like Me
7. Iron and Wine: Woman King EP AND Iron and Wine/Calexico: In the Reins
8. Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
9. Aimee Mann: The Forgotten Arm
10. Sigur Ros: Takk
2004
1. Scissor Sisters: Scissor Sisters
2. Green Day: American Idiot
3. Arcade Fire: Funeral
4. Black Keys: Rubber Factory
5. Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose
6. Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
7. Iron and Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
8. Rilo Kiley: More Adventurous
9. Matt Pond PA: Emblems
10. Rufus Wainwright: Want Two
2003
1. Rufus Wainwright: Want One
2. Kathleen Edwards: Failer
3. The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow
4. Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism/ The Postal Service: Give Up
5. Ryan Adams: Love is Hell & Rock N Roll
6. Annie Lennox: Bare
7. Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers
8. Belle and Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
9. The Thrills: So Much For the City
10. The White Stripes: Elephant
11. New Pornographers: Electric Version
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell
2002
1. Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
2. Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
3. Kylie Minogue: Fever
4. Joseph Arthur: Redemption's Son
5. Foo Fighters: One by One
6. Beck: Sea Change
7. Aimee Mann: Lost in Space
8. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Ryan Adams: Demolition
10. Lisa Loeb: Cake and Pie
11. Sigur Ros: ( )
12. Bright Eyes: Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground/ Desaparecidos: Read Music/Speak Spanish
2001
1. Bob Dylan: Love and Theft
2. Ben Folds: Rockin' the Suburbs
3. Ryan Adams: Gold
4. Bjork: Vespertine
5. Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American
6. Weezer: Weezer (the green album)
7. Garbage: beautifulgarbage
8. Melissa Etheridge: Skin
9. Dave Matthews Band: The Lillywhite Sessions (CDR)
10. John Mayer: Room for Squares
11. Pete Yorn: musicforthemorningafter
12. Robbie Williams: Swing When You’re Winning
2000
1. Radiohead: Kid A
2. Everclear: Songs From an American Movie, Volume 1&2
3. Aimee Mann: Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo)
4. Robbie Williams: Sing When You’re Winning
5. Coldplay: Parachutes
6. No Doubt: Return of Saturn
7. Joseph Arthur: Come To Where I’m From
8. Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
9. XTC: Wasp Star: Apple Venus Volume Two
10. PJ Harvey: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
1999
1. Fiona Apple: When the Pawn...
2. Matthew Sweet: In Reverse
3. Wilco: Summerteeth
4. Flaming Lips: Soft Bulletin
5. Robbie Williams: The Ego Has Landed
6. David Gray: White Ladder
7. Moby: Play
8. Travis: The Man Who
9. Melissa Etheridge: Breakdown
10. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
11. Beck: Midnite Vultures
12. Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
1998
1. Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
2. Beck: Mutations
3. Sheryl Crow: The Globe Sessions
4. Garbage: Version 2.0
5. Air: Moon Safari
6. Smashing Pumpkins: Adore
7. Hole: Celebrity Skin
8. Dave Matthews Band: Before These Crowded Streets
1997
1. Radiohead: OK Computer
2. Bjork: Homogenic
3. Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind
4. Whiskeytown: Stranger's Almanac
5. Ben Folds Five: Whatever and Ever Amen
6. Ric Ocasek: Troublizing
7. Oasis: Be Here Now
1996
1. Weezer: Pinkerton
2. REM: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
3. Dave Matthews Band: Crash
4. Sheryl Crow: Sheryl Crow
5. Beck: Odelay
6. Sting: Mercury Falling
7. Counting Crows: Recovering the Satellites
1995
1. Radiohead: The Bends
2. Oasis: (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
3. Chris Isaak: Forever Blue
4. Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill
5. Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
6. Garbage: Garbage
7. Elton John: Made in England
8. Bjork: Post
9. Aimee Mann: I'm With Stupid
10. No Doubt: Tragic Kingdom
1994
1. Weezer: Weezer (1994)
2. Toad the Wet Sprocket: Dulcinea
3. Tom Petty: Wildflowers
4. Dave Matthews Band: Under the Table and Dreaming
5. Jeff Buckley: Grace
6. Beck: Mellow Gold
7. Green Day: Dookie
8. Oasis: Definitely Maybe
9. Seal: Seal (1994)
1993
1. Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
2. Counting Crows: August and Everything After
3. Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong
4. Sting: Ten Summoner's Tales
5. Radiohead: Pablo Honey
6. Bjork: Debut
7. Aimee Mann: Whatever
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5 comments:
It occurs to me that this article also suggests a response when a woman says she's not in the mood for sex because she has too much on her mind...
I like the part about how they had to study women's orgasms because men's were too quick.
I thought that was funny at first--which is what I assume you're implying by your comment.
But reading it again, I noticed something: "Holstege said he had trouble getting reliable results from the study on men because the scanner needs activities lasting at least two minutes and the men's climaxes didn't last that long." The implication of this is that the scanners worked on women because their--your--climaxes did/do last two minutes or longer. In which case, you should be laughing. All the way to the bank.
Now, I have no real way of knowing about these things; I'm assuming Jessica and other female readers do (and hoping, for their sake and that of their partners, that many of the male readers know as well). Do female orgasms really last "that long"--the two minutes or more needed for the scanners to monitor them?
I will answer your question, Richard, but only for the sake of science. :)
Do orgasms last 2 minutes? To tell you the truth, I've never thought to time them. I think it's more of the "aftershocks" so to speak, that can last 2 minutes. If I had to guess (and since I now know that my mind doesn't really work during an orgasm, it is JUST a guess), I'd say about 20-30 seconds is the average length, but the relaxed mental/physical feeling can last 2 minutes. It all depends on what exactly they're calling the orgasm.
And gee, wasn't I once the person that thought most people in college were virgins? LOL. I've come a long way. (No pun intended.)
Well, thank you--and nice pun. I suppose they mean the entire episode, from right when the climax is building to when things return to normal.
The problem they probably had with men was that two minutes after the start of the orgasm cycle, they were either asleep or looking for dinner.
I would note, however, that the results for men were inconclusive. I think if they ever find a mechanism that can measure the shorter-but-sweet(-and-easier-to-achieve) male orgasm, they'll find that our brains also shut off temporarily.
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