Ever Wonder What Scientists Get Off To? MRI Sex, Apparently

Even though movies have been made--often with Matthew Modine--to prove that med students have lots of casual sex, the truth is they spend a lot of time depriving themselves of carnal pursuits in the interest of focusing on their studies. This leads to studies like this one, where doctors decide to throw horny people into an MRI so they can study them, uh, doing it. 

According to The Daily Mail (link below), this kind of research has been going on for years, but doctors have only recently put things like tongue kissing under the microscope.

The kissing video, entitled ‘The anatomy of kissing and love in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner’ was uploaded by YouTube user Randomhero - but the original source is not listed.

The clip reveals what the video’s describes as the first time a French kiss has been captured in an MRI scanner.

The clip reveals the movement of the tongues as they enter the other person’s mouth, as well as the heart rates of both members increasing throughout.

This video was actually recorded during the 1960s by Dutch doctor Pek Van Andel in a hospital in Groningen.

Both the kissing and the sex video were created using hundreds of still MRI images stitched together to form a time-lapse.

‘We have shown that magnetic resonance images of the female sexual response and the male and female genitals during coitus are feasible and beautiful; that the penis during intercourse in the ‘missionary position’ has the shape of a boomerang and not of an S as drawn by Dickinson; and that, in contrast to the findings of Masters and Johnson, there was no evidence of an increase in the volume of the uterus during sexual arousal.’

So there you have it, science at work!

Via The Daily Mail