No faking female orgasm in scientific research
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Women may be able to fool their partners by faking an orgasm but a brain scanner will catch them out every time, a conference heard on Monday.
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have used scans to show that different areas of the brain are stimulated during an orgasm but are not activated when a woman fakes it.
"Women can imitate orgasm quite well," Gert Holstege told a fertility meeting on Monday. "But there is nothing really happening in the brain."
He and colleagues took brain scans of 13 women and 11 men, aged 19-49 who had volunteered for the study, while they were being sexually stimulated by their partner and during an orgasm and compared them to images of their brains at rest.
"We wanted to know what the brain was doing during orgasm," Holstege said.
When women genuinely achieved an orgasm, areas of the brain involved in fear and emotion were deactivated. Those areas stayed alert however when women were faking it.
The researchers also found that the cortex, which is linked with consciousness, is active during a fake orgasm but not during the real thing.
"The deactivation of these very important parts of the brain might be the most important thing necessary to have an orgasm," said Holstege.
"It means that if you are fearful or at a very high level of anxiety, then it is very difficult to have sex because you really have to let yourself go," he added.
The brain scans for men during orgasm were less conclusive, according to Holstege.
But they did show that different parts of the male and female brain are activated and deactivated during sexual stimulation.
The researchers found less deactivation in the males in the areas of the brain linked to emotion and fear when they were sexually stimulated.
They are now planning further studies to compared the male and female brains during orgasm.
About 5,300 delegates are attending the 4-day meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
Naked rambler" starts nude walk with girlfriend
LONDON (Reuters) - A former Royal Marine who last year braved 14 arrests and five months in jail to walk the length of Britain in only a pair of boots set out on Thursday to repeat the naked trek -- this time with his girlfriend.
Stephen Gough, 46, and hairdresser Melanie Roberts, 33, stripped off and set out from Land's End in Cornwall, at the southwestern tip of England, on an 874-mile nude trek to John O'Groats in Scotland.
"It's not raining and it's warm," Gough told Reuters by mobile phone shortly after the trek began.
During Gough's first naked walk across Britain in 2003-4, he was arrested 14 times for breach of the peace -- on one occasion he was held for being a traffic hazard -- and spent five months in jail in Inverness, Scotland.
"Why do it with no clothes on? To celebrate the fact that I'm a human being and that there is nothing shameful in being a human being. There's nothing wrong with a naked body," Gough, dubbed the "naked rambler", he told Reuters earlier.
"There are no laws in this country saying you can't walk naked," Gough said. "All it says is that if you are naked and you have an intent to harm, that's a crime."
Watch-Group Members Pose As Prostitutes
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - Members of a watch group are taking the fight against prostitution and drugs right to the source — the streets of their neighborhood.
North Gratiot Neighborhood Watch members spent two days last month posing as streetwalkers and vagrants in an area north of the Mount Clemens downtown section known for its street crime.
When potential customers pulled over, the activists handed out a flier that said, "If you're soliciting sex and/or drugs in this neighborhood, you are being videotaped. Stay tuned for the 11 (o'clock) news. Zero tolerance."
Watch group organizer Deborah Roberts said the homeowners are using the new technique because they are tired of motorists driving around the block asking law-abiding men and women for crack cocaine or sex for money.
The group has become increasingly vocal about crime in their neighborhood over the past two years, posting signs, handing out leaflets and videotaping alleged drug sales and prostitutes waving down cars. Last month, members went a step further and began walking the streets themselves, handing out their fliers.
Although they acknowledge posing as a hooker late at night is extremely risky, some of the group members are carrying mace or other weapons to be used in self defense. Their videotapes are being turned over to law enforcers.
"We can't even walk in our own neighborhood without being solicited by some creep driving by," Roberts said. "We simply aren't getting adequate protection."
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