Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Sex in an MRI tubeI had an MRI on my bum shoulder a few weeks ago, and I didn't enjoy going inside the MRI tube. The technician gave me a little bulb to squeeze if I freaked out and wanted to get pulled out, and I have to admit, every time I dared to open my eyes and see how close the inside of the tube was to my face, I thought about squeezing. It was also very noisy; it sounded like a sound effect record for different kinds of science fiction rayguns.
So when Boing Boing reader Vaxciliate told us about a recent scientific research study that involved putting a man and a woman together in a tube to have sex, I was amazed that they could fit two people in the tube at the same time.
The Pharyngula blog has a description and images (MRI scans) of the hot science porn.
From the paper:
LinkThe volunteers were shown the equipment in the two rooms, and personal and gynaecological histories were taken. The experimental procedure was explained, and all investigators left the imaging room. After a preliminary image for positioning the true pelvis of the woman was taken, the first image was taken with her lying on her back (image 1). Then the male was asked to climb into the tube and begin face to face coitus in the superior position (image 2). After this shot—successful or not—the man was asked to leave the tube and the woman was asked to stimulate her clitoris manually and to inform the researchers by intercom when she had reached the preorgasmic stage. Then she stopped the autostimulation for a third image (image 3). After that image was taken the woman restarted the stimulation to achieve an orgasm. Twenty minutes after the orgasm, the fourth image was taken (image 4). At the end of the experiment, the images were evaluated in the presence of the participants.
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