Rutgers University researchers have discovered that séxual árousal numbs the female nervous system to such an extent that she doesn’t feel as much pain—only pleasure.
Orgásm affects up to 30 different parts of the brain including those responsible for emotion, touch, joy, satisfaction and memory, found researchers.
The researchers asked eight women to stimu late themselves while lying under a blanket inside a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner, a tunnel-like machine often used to detect brain tumours.
