Brain Shut Down

Don't ask why, but I Googled the phrase "brain shut down" and on the first page of results (it was actually the first hit at the time, but isn't any more, was this link

"Brain Areas Shut off During Female Orgasm"

So I decided to read the article...why? because I like to learn.

And if you read the article (Go ahead and read it. It's not porn, I promise), you can imagine the people in the study being injected with dye, being put into and MRI machine, and being told

"Ok, so my lab mates and I are going to measure what is happening in your brain regions as you jerk off your boyfriend (slash finger your girlfriend)"

Side Note: I feel dirty knowing my grandma is going to read this, but it was published as an honest-to-God study, and I'm just reporting it.

I'm reading the story out loud to one of the people in my lab at the time. I'm reading fairly slowly and I laugh histarically when it gets to the part; "In the study, Holstege and his colleagues at Groningen University recruited 11 men and 13 women" because I hadn't read the rest of the sentence yet. And in my head, I'm already thinking "How does that work? How did they decide who the lucky two guys are who get to do this twice!?"

And I laugh again when I get to this sentence:
"Holstege said he had trouble getting reliable results from the study on men because the scanning machine needs activities lasting at least two minutes to record an activity"

Now I know where all the government research money is going...

And why people enjoy sex soo much. It's the only time human brains are truly allowed to shut down.