Orgasm device

[zakur]

Powerful Pads of Pleasure

The device, sold largely over the Internet for just less than $200, looks nothing like a traditional sex toy. Women who use it stick two rubber plastic pads on their ankles and then plug the pads into a handheld control box the size of a Walkman. In theory, say the engineers, Slightest Touch stimulates accupressure points that link up with a woman's sensual nervous system.

But the concept confounds sex expert Dr. Gerald Melchiode, a nationally known psychiatrist at Dallas' University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

"It doesn't conform to anything I've understood in neurology," Melchiode says. "Stroking a woman's ankle is not what I've understood to be a major erotogenic zone."

And from this article:

"The name is very accurate," said Romaine Patterson, a talk show host on Sirius satellite radio who tested the product and has become an enthusiastic and regular user.

"As a journalist, I didn't have much faith in the product going into it, but it changed my mind," Patterson continued. "It warms the oven. It brings women to the one-yard line.... It's a wonderful product. I think the world of it."

Okey, dokey.

 

[zakur]

Also from the Wired article:

But skeptics abound. Stephen Barrett, a retired psychiatrist from Allentown, Pennsylvania, who runs Quackwatch, said it was highly unlikely that electrical current to the ankles would stimulate the pelvis.
"I can't imagine how that would have anything to do with stimulating the pudendal nerve," he said. "That's nuts. That's bulls**t. You're not going to stimulate anything in the pelvis by stimulating the ankle."

Barrett suggested the device might work by suggestion, or some secondary effect like relaxing its wearer.

 

[iSani]

Quoting the manifacturer's website:

The magic of the Slightest Touch® is provided by a set of gentle pulsing and tingling frequencies that a woman can just lightly feel.

The only contact with the woman’s body is where the electrode pads are placed, either on the top of the foot, slightly above the ankle, or on either side of the spine above the buttocks.

I'm guessing these things work on the same principle as those electric "excercise" devices you see on infomercials. A slight oscillating current flowing from the electroids to the leg muscles causes them to contract rhythmically. I can see how that could feel arousing, when applied properly.

Nothing supernatural here, move along...

 

[TruthSeeker]

What's wrong with a good old fashioned vibrator applied you-know-where?

I suspect this will appeal to women who have trouble with their own bodies and their own sexuality.

Sad.

I can't imagine anyone marketing something like this to men who rarely have any trouble with touching themselves....

 

[Rolfe]

What's wrong with a good old fashioned vibrator applied you-know-where?

Precisely. Where's the market? Seems the demand is already being met by a perfectly satisfactory product.

So, who's going to volunteer to road-test this particular piece of improbability....?

Rolfe.

 

[Martin]

So, who's going to volunteer to road-test this particular piece of improbability....?

We'll need a control group, too. I'll organise that.

 

[Zep]

And why pay for a vibrator or any other particular device when there's probably a perfectly handy GUY about who wouldn't mind the chance to be somewhat helpful in the process... These GUYs can even be voice-activated too.

 

[TruthSeeker]

And why pay for a vibrator or any other particular device when there's probably a perfectly handy GUY about who wouldn't mind the chance to be somewhat helpful in the process... These GUYs can even be voice-activated too.

Dearest Zep,
There isn't always a guy.

And even when there is one about, it's nice to have a little variety

Anyway, lots of couples use them together.

but enough of this risque talk.

 

[neutrino_cannon]

Dearest Zep,
There isn't always a guy.

And even when there is one about, it's nice to have a little variety

Anyway, lots of couples use them together.

but enough of this risque talk.

Couples? Who said anything about couples?

Why doesn't shocking muscles to make them contract excercise them anyway? Galvinism correct?

 

[BTox]

So much complexity when all that is needed is a hand (and works equally well, male or female).

 

[Disco]

One from experience

My hubby got one of these for us to try. The underlying principle is to get the woman "close to the edge" more quickly before penetration - which can be a much longer time (supposedly) than the man is willing to wait.

We tried it twice. It did make my feet twitch, but I still was much more stimulated by foreplay than the device. And compared to more tried & true foreplay toys (vibrators, hands, tongues, etc.) the "Slightest touch" sucks. Bigtime. No pun intended.

It now sits in our nightstand drawer along with many other overly hyped toys.

IMO, not worth the $. Just my .02.

MHB

 

[Rolfe]

Re: One from experience

IMO, not worth the $. Just my .02.

That's the weirdness of it. Vibrators only cost a few pounds. Why pay $200 for something?

If it works, I'd put a lot more than $200 on it working by suggestion. Which won't last, if someone who's tired and not in the mood relies on it to do something by itself.

This, Vega testing, all these weird pseudo-devices. The one thing they have in common is a price ticket way above what the (usualy very simple) components would seem to justify. People blindly imagining that you get what you pay for, and if it's expensive it must be good?

Rolfe.

 

[Iamme]

Orgasm devise, you say? A: Hand

 

[Eos of the Eons]

Nah, a hand, well I guess our own hands, just need a little something in them before we can stimulate our "woman's sensual nervous system.".

I didn't know we had a sensual nervous system. I guess guys just have a hard wired sexual nervous system ...one head directly connected to the other

 

[Mercutio]

I guess guys just have a hard wired sexual nervous system ...one head directly connected to the other

Actually, they are connected in such a manner that only one works at a time...

 

[Suggestologist]

Also from the Wired article:

But skeptics abound. Stephen Barrett, a retired psychiatrist from Allentown, Pennsylvania, who runs Quackwatch, said it was highly unlikely that electrical current to the ankles would stimulate the pelvis.
"I can't imagine how that would have anything to do with stimulating the pudendal nerve," he said. "That's nuts. That's ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊. You're not going to stimulate anything in the pelvis by stimulating the ankle."

Barrett suggested the device might work by suggestion, or some secondary effect like relaxing its wearer.

Yeah. And viagra probably just works by some secondary effect like relaxing the user.......

People who want to call themselves skeptics really need to do some research before making rash and unmerited statements about things they have no personal experience with.

The idea that "You're not going to stimulate anything in the pelvis by stimulating the ankle" shows complete ignorance of psychological possibilities, and more specifically, fetish psychology.

 

[Eos of the Eons]

Actually, they are connected in such a manner that only one works at a time...

Hmm, That explains the one working overtime? The other one would then suffer from "if you don't use it, you lose it".

Hmmm, but I bet you all will claim you have a nice healthy balance.

 

[Yahweh]

*Big cheesy smile*

Naughty naughty, Eos.

 

[Eos of the Eons]

*Big cheesy smile*

Naughty naughty, Eos.

[innocent]What?[/innocent]

 

[roger]

Hmmm, but I bet you all will claim you have a nice healthy balance.

Well, of course, I do all the thinking with one at least 90% of the time!