'Sex chip' being developed by scientists

[Antaletriangle]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...cientists.html
Scientists are developing an electronic "sex chip" that can be implanted into the brain to stimulate pleasure.

By Chris Irvine
Last Updated: 8:36AM GMT 22 Dec 2008

The chip works by sending tiny shocks from implanted electrodes in the brain.

The technology has been used in the United States to treat Parkinson's disease.

But in recent months scientists have been focusing on the area of the brain just behind the eyes known as the orbitofrontal cortex - this is associated with feelings of pleasure derived from eating and sex.

A research survey conducted by Morten Kringelbach, senior fellow at Oxford University's department of psychiatry, found the orbitofrontal cortex could be a "new stimulation target" to help people suffering from anhedonia, an inability to experience pleasure from such activities. His findings are reported in the Nature Reviews Neuroscience journal.

Neurosurgery professor Tipu Aziz, said: "There is evidence that this chip will work. A few years ago a scientist implanted such a device into the brain of a woman with a low sex drive and turned her into a very sexually active woman. She didn't like the sudden change, so the wiring in her head was removed."

He added however that the current technology, which requires surgery to connect a wire from a heart pacemaker into the brain, can cause bleeding and is "intrusive and crude".

He continued: "When the technology is improved, we can use deep brain stimulation in many new areas. It will be more subtle, with more control over the power so you may be able to turn the chip on and off when needed.

"In 10 years' time the range of therapies available will be amazing – we don't know half the possibilities yet."

An electronic machine, named the Orgasmatron, taken from the 1973 Woody Allen film Sleeper, is already under development by a North Carolina doctor, who is modifying a spinal cord stimulator to produce pleasure in women.

I find that extremely creepy. Not to mention how embarrassing it could be if someone else got hold of the remote...

[Jacqui D]

Originally Posted by Steve_G

I find that extremely creepy. Not to mention how embarrassing it could be if someone else got hold of the remote...

HA! Quite Steve G!
Jeeeeeezz!!!!! what's it coming to, but i can imagine this one taking off.
Look how Viagra flew off the shelves, once a solution for a male problem it has now became so sort after by both genders. A few years down the line and everything will be virtual anyway, you'll just slip a headset on and have your sexual desires taken care of. The film TOTAL RECALL with ARNIE comes to mind.

Will it come with a remote control for hubby?

Seriously, this research makes my blood boil. They won't be happy until
we are the Borg

[Mercuriel]

Originally Posted by Baggywrinkle

They won't be happy until we are the Borg

If only You knew how close You are to the Truth...

[Jacqui D]

To near!!!!!!

[elsinorelore]

Yeah, the orgasmitron from Sleeper, how funny was that part of the movie, but I guess on a whole, the message from that film was pretty freaky, so to think of it in that sense, PRETTY SCAREY!!!EEKS!!!!

[piers2210]

come back Wilhelm Reich, all is forgiven!

[Dantheman62]