-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- To: "*OBRL_News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 12:19 AM Subject: OBRL - Orgasm by Prescription > http://www.orgonelab.org > Forwarded News Item > > Please copy and distribute to other interested individuals and groups > > ********** > > More evidence that the "normals" in our society are completely mentally ill. > Better to fire any physician (like Jocelyn Elders) who dares to say that > masturbation is OK for young people, and let the impotent adults have > electrical masturbations, courtesy of the docs (by prescription only). > And they called Reich nuts? > J.D. > > +++++ > > Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:00:06 PST > > Everyone is being displaced by a machine nowadays. > > Yahoo - Doctor stumbles onto orgasm machine > http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010207/n07281052.html > > > Wednesday February 7, 3:44 pm Eastern Time > > Doctor stumbles onto orgasm machine > > By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent > > WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - All he was trying to do was ease her chronic > back pain, but when Dr. Stuart Meloy placed an electrode into one patient's > back, she groaned. > > Not in pain, but in delight. > > ``This is a direct quote -- she said, 'You're going to have to teach my > husband how to do that','' Meloy, an anesthesiologist and pain specialist > in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said in a telephone interview. > > Meloy had stumbled onto an unexpected side-effect of the pain device he was > using -- an ability to cause orgasm. > > He has just patented this unexpected use of the device, a spinal cord > stimulator made by device company Medtronic (NYSE:MDT - news). Now he is > trying to talk Minneapolis-based Medtronic into testing and marketing the > device for this use. > > It all started with a relatively routine operation for Meloy, who was > trying to help a patient with severe and untreatable back pain. > > ``She had had a number of back surgeries for degenerative disk disease and > fusion surgery,'' Meloy said. > > He was trying Medtronic's spinal cord stimulator to see if it might work in > her case. ``These people are either suffering a lot or there is certainly a > place for narcotics to be used.'' > > The surgeon has to place an electrode very precisely in the patient's > spine. The idea is to find the specific nerve bundle that is carrying his > or her pain signals to the brain. > > It requires some trial and error and sometimes, Meloy said, the surgeon > hurts a patient, who will groan or cry out. > > At first he thought this had happened with this patient. > > SHE MADE A ``DIFFERENT'' SOUND > > ``But the sound that she made was a little bit different. I asked her what > it was,'' he said. That was when she recommended he teach her husband the > technique. > > ``The next day in the operating room, the nurses were all asking me how one > gets that,'' Meloy deadpanned. > > Meloy said he repositioned the electrode and was able to help the patient's > pain. ``We able to reduce her narcotics usage by about a half,'' he said. > > He was not able to offer her a dual use of the pacemaker-sized device, > which is implanted under the skin. > > The device works not to block pain but to change the way the patient > perceives it. ``Instead of feeling pain, they feel what most people > describe as a buzzing sensation in the affected area,'' Meloy said. > > ``It's not so much a distraction as a change in perception. You are > altering what they feel.'' > > This seemed to work the same way in pushing the a patient's orgasm button. > ``Yes, she literally got a buzz,'' Meloy sighed. ``Yes, we turned her on. > The puns can go on and on.'' > > But he hopes to turn this to a serious use. > > ``Once you get past the giggles and smirks, as far as orgasmic dysfunction > goes, it is a very real problem. People don't like to talk about it. But if > we are going to utilize a device like this, it would be to allow people to > have more of a normal life than some sort of supernormal life.'' > > In other words, no ``Orgasmatron'' as featured in the 1973 Woody Allen > movie ``Sleeper.'' > > Meloy hopes he could develop the device for temporary use, to retrain a > patient's sexual response. ``You could just get them back in the groove or > whatever.'' Then the device could be used outside the body via a catheter. > > But Meloy stressed it was no toy. > > ``Even for pain management patients we certainly exhaust all other > possibilities before we start utilizing this type of technique,'' he said. > > Will it work on all kinds of people, men as well as women? ``I observed it > twice,'' Meloy said. > > ``I hang out with other people who do pain management, and I have heard of > it working with men as well,'' he said. > > ``Is it reproducible? I sure hope so.'' > > > ********** > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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