{"id":1778,"date":"2003-11-26T23:07:15","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T03:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/11\/26\/science-catchs-woody-allen-after-30-ye"},"modified":"2003-11-26T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2003-11-27T03:07:15","slug":"science-catchs-woody-allen-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/26\/science-catchs-woody-allen-after-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Catchs Woody Allen After 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1916'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/ssleep.jpeg\" width=\"209\" height=\"168\" align=\"left\"><i>If<br \/>\n        there&#8217;s anything more American the celebrity sex stories, we don&#8217;t know<br \/>\n        what it is. Sometimes it gets hard to tell if life is imitating art, or<br \/>\n        visa versa. It took 30 years, but science has finally caught up with Woody<br \/>\n        Allen, who in the 1973 hit &quot;Sleeper&quot; invented the &quot;Orgasmatron&quot;.<br \/>\n        Well, whatever the human mind can imagine, some sick scientist is sure<br \/>\n        to invent. Amazing to me it took 30 years&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are struggling to find women willing to try out a device dubbed<br \/>\n        the &#8220;orgasmatron&#8221;. The electronic implant is said to cause instant sexual<br \/>\n        arousal at the flick of a switch. American researchers are investigating<br \/>\n        its potential for helping women who find it impossible to achieve orgasm.<br \/>\n        New Scientist magazine reports volunteers for the study are in short supply.<br \/>\n        Dr Stuart Meloy, the surgeon who patented the treatment, said: &#8220;I thought<br \/>\n        people would be beating my door down to become part of the trial, but<br \/>\n        so far I am struggling to find people.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><i>We suspect this may have something to do with the fact that the experiment<br \/>\n        involves inserting a series of wires from an external device into the<br \/>\n        subject&#8217;s spinal cord&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_841735.html?menu=news.quirkies\"><br \/>\n        Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s anything more American the celebrity sex stories, we don&#8217;t know what it is. Sometimes it gets hard to tell if life is imitating art, or visa versa. It took 30 years, but science has finally caught up with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/26\/science-catchs-woody-allen-after-30-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}