Probably the world’s most interesting research paper for the masses

Research findings produced in scientific journals are not exactly reader-friendly, at least to the general masses.

But when I saw Kurt Low’s post, which pointed to a research done, apparently in 1999 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands which is intriguingly titled “Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal” for sure one would think: now this is something never shown during biology class at school!

In the abstract of the paper it’s mentioned that the objective of the research is “to find out whether taking images of the male and female genitals during coitus is feasible and to find out whether former and current ideas about the anatomy during sexual intercourse and during female sexual arousal are based on assumptions or on facts.”

There are benefits for doing the research, not least that the researchers get paid to watch people having sex inside a gigantic electomagnet (method used was magnetic resonance imaging), which would produce images like this:

They performed 13 experiments with 8 couples and 3 single women.

Their conclusion: taking magnetic resonance images of the male and female genitals during coitus is feasible and contributes to understanding of anatomy.

source
kurtlow.com
bmj.com

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