National Geographic

All right, I just called a guy in Seattle that I was supposed to have a pseudo phone interview with, and the number he gave me for his cell phone was some old guy who had no idea who I was. I checked the number a zillion times, and I know that I dialed the same number in his email, so I don't know what's going on. *sigh* I guess I'll have to call him at work tomorrow... discretely...?

Anyway, after coming back from the gym, I was making dinner (well, not really, but I always call pouring myself a bowl of cereal, toasting a bagel and spreading on some cream cheese, or making macaroni & cheese out of a box "dinner," so we'll just move on) and I flipped on the TV. Of course, nothing was on since there was no OC this week, but I turned to the National Geographic channel in the middle of a special on the Orgasmatron. I only saw the second half of the show where three women met the doctor who discovered this whole thing and were going to participate in a 1 week trial. After getting the electrodes inserted into their spine and turning on the handheld device that could vary the frequency and intensity of the signals sent to their bodies, the women were told to go back to their hotel rooms with their husbands and basically "experiment" for the rest of the week. The outcome was actually really interesting - one of the women had fantastic results, one of them had a few orgasms over the course of the week, and the last women didn't see any changes at all. It was neat to see how the doctor discovered all this stuff, but it was really sad to hear from the woman who didn't really get anything out of it. I dunno... I guess it was just cool to see how these women spoke so candidly about the problems that they were having and what length they were going to in order to fix it.

I also thought it was amusing how some of the other people that were interviewed on the show talked all about their concerns about the "trend" that the Orgasmatron is setting. Ranging from "this is just like plastic surgery - we're encouraging women to chase after the ideal and they're losing sight of what's really normal" to "the female orgasm isn't really a necessary part of reproduction anyway, so why bother trying to recreate it?" First of all, the second argument is completely bogus since doctors are prescribing Viagra and Cialis to men who have already had vasectomies and are married to post-menopausal women. There's no reproduction going on. So now the message is that men can still enjoy sex but women can't? That's stupid. The plastic surgery argument is a little weak as well - if a woman is bothered enough by her looks and has the money to afford plastic surgery, who's to say that she shouldn't do it? Likewise, if a woman is unhappy enough with her sex life and has the money to pay for something like the Orgasmatron, why should people care that she's getting it? I'll bet it's making her happier. As long as the FDA says it won't hurt you, I say rock on.