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A full implant of the device would cost
about 13,000 pounds ($22,000).

Women Needed to Test Orgasm Machine

Wed November 26, 2003 02:03 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Wanted: women to test new orgasm machine.

No, really. An American surgeon who has patented a device that triggers an
orgasm has begun a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug
Administration in the United States and is looking for female volunteers.

"I thought people would be beating my door down to become part of the
trial," pain specialist Dr Stuart Meloy told New Scientist magazine on
Wednesday.

But so far only one woman has completed the first stage of the trial, with
apparently breathtaking results, and a second has agreed to take part.

Meloy, of Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, is hoping to find eight more volunteers willing to have electrodes
inserted in their spine and be connected to a pacemaker-size machine
implanted under the skin to heighten their sexual pleasure.

The married woman who tested the machine, dubbed an orgasmatron, had not had
an orgasm for four years. But during the nine days she used it, she had
several.

"She even told me she had the first multiple orgasm of her life using the
device," said Meloy.

Women Needed to Test Orgasm Machine

Wed November 26, 2003 02:03 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Wanted: women to test new orgasm machine.

No, really. An American surgeon who has patented a device that triggers an
orgasm has begun a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug
Administration in the United States and is looking for female volunteers.

"I thought people would be beating my door down to become part of the
trial," pain specialist Dr Stuart Meloy told New Scientist magazine on
Wednesday.

But so far only one woman has completed the first stage of the trial, with
apparently breathtaking results, and a second has agreed to take part.

Meloy, of Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, is hoping to find eight more volunteers willing to have electrodes
inserted in their spine and be connected to a pacemaker-size machine
implanted under the skin to heighten their sexual pleasure.

The married woman who tested the machine, dubbed an orgasmatron, had not had
an orgasm for four years. But during the nine days she used it, she had
several.

"She even told me she had the first multiple orgasm of her life using the
device," said Meloy.

He stumbled on the unexpected side-effect while using a spinal cord
stimulator a few years ago to treat a patient suffering with severe back
pain. The woman had already had back surgery for degenerative disk disease
and fusion surgery.

When Meloy placed the electrodes into a specific spot on her spine to find
nerve bundles carrying pain signals to the brain, she moaned with delight.

"You're going to have to teach my husband how to do that," he quoted her as
saying.

The tiny impulses of electricity applied to the electrodes seemed to have
turned on the patient's orgasm button.

Although the device has been compared to the orgasmatron featured in the
1973 Woody Allen film "Sleeper," Meloy envisions patients using it
temporarily to retrain their sexual response.

The women in the trial described it as "really excellent foreplay."

Although some medical experts are skeptical about the procedure and say a
vibrator can produce the same results, Meloy believes it could help to
improve sexual response in women who cannot have orgasms and might even help
men as well.

A full implant of the device would cost about 13,000 pounds ($22,000).

"I don't see it any differently from procedures such as breast implants,"
Meloy told the magazine.