Mary Roach talks about 10 interesting orgasm related things.

ngaio · 28-05-09 04:10:53

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/549

... and it is REALLY freakin' hilarious.

It also reminds me that I need to get her other books, particularly "Bonk". I read "Stiff" last year and loved it.

Her website: http://www.maryroach.net

nihpuad · 29-05-09 22:11:47

ngaio wrote:

It also reminds me that I need to get her other books, particularly "Bonk". I read "Stiff" last year and loved it.

I just recently listened to the audiobook version of Bonk (BTW, shouldn't that be Boink?); it was great!

Folly · 02-06-09 07:35:21

im reading spook, it's pretty good. Did you know it's possible that the unease, chills, nausea and peripheral visions people put down to ghosts may actually be the result of infrasound? - sound waves at a frequency that some people are particularly sensitive to.
But that was the most scientifically conclusive thing in the book so far. The rest is very fence-sitting.

ngaio · 10-06-09 08:31:53

Nihpuad, awesome!

Folly, that's fascinating! What do they think the infrasound comes from? Are they suggesting it's ghosties? Or are there other theories?

richard · 10-06-09 15:49:21

Scientifically conclusive? I don't think infrasound is in any scientist's vocab. It's sort of hyperreal.

blissed · 10-06-09 16:18:48

Nuclear explosions create a blast wave of extreme infrasound. It's sound at such a low frequency we can't hear it, but instead of resonating our eardrums it resonates our bodies. It's the sub bass you feel through the ground on your feet at a rave with a large sound system.

I used to work for a company that provided the sound systems for large raves and there's an urban myth that a certain frequency and amplitude will resonate internal organs like the colon causing it to drop it's contents on the floor. We idly talked about using the systems infrasound capability to do this to the audience, perhaps writing a piece of music with that sound at the end, but decided we'd either need to walk away from the system leaving it unattended or wear concrete underpants to protect ourselves so we didn't do it :)

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nihpuad · 10-06-09 22:37:01

blissed wrote:

...there's an urban myth that a certain frequency and amplitude will resonate internal organs like the colon causing it to drop it's contents on the floor.

Ahh, the "brown note"! Mythbusters did an episode on that, and pronounced it "Busted."

nihpuad · 10-06-09 22:47:59

BTW, I finally got around to watching Mary Roach's TED talk. Who knew she was such a hottie? I don't suppose y'all could recruit her to do an IFM set? If there's any sequel (or Revised Edition) to Bonk, she could justify it as research!

Hmmm... I wonder if, somewhere out there on the net, there's a bootleg copy of the MRI she and her husband did for the book?

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