If a room full of middle aged bald scientists and MRI machines isn’t your idea of a romantic way to start out your evening, there is one woman who may disagree with you. We’re talking about the women who could will herself to cum without any physical stimulation whatsoever. And it’s a group of researchers at Rutgers-Newark University led by Dr. Barry Komisaruk that are making this woman Traci, cum over, and over, and over again. These researchers are exploring the power and chemical makeup of the orgasm.

Dr. Komisaruk, the lead scientist behind the experiment, began studying the brain as the epicenter for all things pleasurable at UCLA’s Brain Research Center. When he moved to Rutgers, the doctor noticed that aroused rats had a much higher pain tolerance. At the same time, his wife was dying of horrible painful cancer, without break from the constant pain. Hoping he could help other people suffering from similar pain, the doctor started researching the correlation between arousal, sexual pleasure, and pain. Once his project got the go-ahead, Komisaruk established that vaginal stimulation in women increased their pain tolerance by 50%, deducing that the orgasm is a better painkiller than any Vicodin or Morphine could ever be. Through many more orgasms and much more research, the doctor was able to map out a female’s orgasm from start to finish on its way to the pleasure centers in the brain.

“We now know there are three different nerves, each of which can by itself activate an orgasm in women,” he says. “We also know that the more nerves that are stimulated, the more complex and intense the orgasm becomes. Clitoral seems more external and localized, and vaginal or cervical feels deeper and incorporates the whole body. In other words, they’re additive.”

The Dr. was also concluded that women feel pleasure from sex within the same regions of the brain as they feel love, meaning that women feel a stronger connection between sex and love. Traci, a woman who is able to think her to way to orgasm, is the ultimate test subject because it presents the scientists with data from the orgasm in its purest form: without physical movements to skew the results. Hopefully once the scientists map out the female orgasm completely, they can use this data to help both people in pain, and all the clueless males out there.

(Via Playboy)