Participants were assured confidentiality, privacy, anonymity, and the possibility of withdrawing from the study at any time.
Note that they had to mention the possibility to withdraw at anytime, that bit was for the guys...
After written informed consent had been obtained, the participants were invited to come for a scan when the equipment was available on a Saturday.
Not necessarily in that order...
An improvised curtain covered the window between the two rooms, so the intercom was the only means of communication.
An intercom would be an upgrade for most relationships...
The subjective level of sexual arousal of the participants, men and women, during the experiment was described afterwards as average.
In a giant scanning machine, average... I guess they'd need Big Bird and a marching band for
extraordinary?
Eight women had a complete sexual response during sexual stimulation (experiments 4-11) and these women described their orgasm as "superficial."
[Insert faking orgasm joke here]
We did not foresee that the men would have more problems with sexual performance (maintaining their erection) than the women in the scanner.
We are talking about people who can't stand being watched while peeing... what planet are
these doctors from?
Only the first couple was able to perform coitus adequately without sildenafil (experiments 1 and 2). The reason might be that they were the only participants in the real sense: involved in the research right from the beginning because of their scientific curiosity, knowledge of the body, and artistic commitment. And as amateur street acrobats they are trained and used to performing under stress.
Man I gotta get out more...
The thing that springs to mind here is that I can download pictures of people having sex with animals,
telephones, vinyl appliances, midgets, on skyscrapers, in elevators, in crowded parks on playground equipment, covered in mud, peeing on each other and more but
they can't find 8 couples who can keep it together for 50 seconds. Clearly, their next research project should be finding out where the hell all the freaks were when they were trying their first project.
Also, even though it took Viagra for them to get good pictures, right now there are people plotting
on how to get in to a hospital to have sex in the morgue. Think about that for a second...