Push button orgasms (A Procrastination Post)

I read about this in the 'Metro' about a year ago I think but Nina's mention of robots in the comment box below made me think of it again.

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An implant for women that can induce an orgasm!! Well, my first thought on this was 'Gimmie gimmie gimmie now gimmie!' The idea of spicing up a particularly boring lecture on Kant by pressing a button seemed like an ingenious idea; "What's that? Catagorical Imperat..... WOOOOOOO!"

Then I thought about it more and much of the fun of an orgasm is the process leading up to an orgasm. The process is removed if I can walk around Tescos hopping from one foot to the other or collapsing in the deli. There's not much that's erotic about that (unless you have a Supermarket Fetish). It seems intensely sterile and while it might be useful for a woman who can't actually achieve an orgasm it would still take all the excitement and anticipation away from the event; "Alright darlin (gruff masculine voice), 10 seconds to blast off!! 10.... 9...". And inevitably, however much I tried to prevent myself from using it, I'd be pressing the button every 10 minutes or so, particularly at moments when I was engaged in something serious so I could have a good chuckle. Can we become desensitized to an orgasm? The thought fills me with dread.

Worse than that is the matter of body invasive technologies. I don't like the idea of someone implanting a chip inside me, am I still a human if one of the essential things that make's me human is controlled by a chip? Orgasms are very human, animals may have them but for animals they're simply a bi-product of mating. We actively go seeking them, they are bound up in eroticism and/or intimacy, an implant removes the need for that, removes the need for human interaction. If interaction with an other is removed and one of our processes becomes strictly autonomous then we lose a little piece of humanity.

It's not really surprising that it was developed in America (where apparently the trails were a success) and pleasing to see that there were no volunteers for the trial in the UK. Its good to know that we remain women for now instead of cyborg orgasm monsters.

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