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Erlkönig: uninvited-orgasms.shtmlEdinburgh, Scotland: They can lengthen your life, but they play havoc with your driving. That's the finding of two teams of scientists who reported recently that an orgasm can be a mixed blessing. And, in the process, they raised an intriguing question: Why does the Earth move for us in the first place? Nature is never gratuitously generous, after all, so why did it create the evolutionary gift of an energy-wasting orgasm? It was a particularly pointed question for doctors at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, who treated a 44-year-old woman plagued by continual, uninvited and unexpected orgasms. She suffered hot flushes when she wanted to be cool at dinner parties; shrieked "Oh, God" while chatting with friends and had to stop driving her car while all she wanted to do was shift gears. The team traced the woman's problem to a deformed artery which had damaged the right temporal lobe of her brain. Here, the scientists concluded, lies the nerve tissue that triggers the female orgasm, the neurological equivalent to the G-spot. The woman was given anti-epilepsy drugs to stop her bouts of inappropriate flushes and moans, while the doctors prepared a paper for the medical journal the Lancet. |