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[elfs]

PET Scanning the Female Orgasm

As the women were stimulated to orgasm, activity rose in one sensory part of the brain, called the primary somatosensory cortex, but fell in the amygdala and hippocampus, areas involved in alertness and anxiety. During actual orgasm, activity fell in many more areas of the brain, including the prefrontal cortex, compared with the resting state... Only one small part of the brain, in the cerebellum, was more active during female orgasm. The cerebellum is normally associated with coordinating movement, though there is also some evidence that it helps regulate emotions.

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[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

There's long been evidence of involvement of the cerebellum in the brain's reward/desire circuitry (http://www.paradise-engineering.com/brain/):

The cerebellum, Heath learned, is a better entryway to the brain's emotional circuitry. Stimulating a precise half-inch of its cauliflowerlike surface automatically fires the pleasure area and inhibits the rage centers, and so it was no longer necessary to invade the limbic areas farther forward in the brain.

Tangentially: I bet a hedonic approach to interrogation (wire up the subject with brain electrodes and reduce them to a shivering lump of orgasmic jelly) would be far more effective and humane than medieval-level torture technologies.

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

Ooo. I got a little frisson from that.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. Kinsey was always much more interesting to read than Penthouse Letters.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Confirmation that a women are more likely to orgasm when they are de-stressed, relaxed, and comfortable.

Books on Female Orgasm

[(Anonymous)]

There's an excellent scientific e-book on the subject of the practical rather than theoretical female orgasm.

It's written by Dr Irene Cooper, a professional sex therapist in the UK and you can find it and other resources at:

My Female Orgasm (http://www.femaleorgasmz.com)

Linda (http://femaleorgazm.blogspot.com)