Today is the solstice with asteroid Atlantis, Pluto and the Sun piled up. How could I have missed the symbolism? Scientists yesterday announced the development of a sex chip: a brain implant that can send little jolts to the orbitofrontal cortex, which processes pleasure from food and sex.<\/p>\n
Who says the two are not related? Who says we don’t stuff ourselves sick at Burger King because we’re horny? Okay let’s save that for a different article. This is about technology. Pluto + Atlantis = sex technology. But of course. Aries Point (i.e., on the solstice) says big implications<\/em>. Capricorn says, are we really concerned about feelings, or rather about the structure of it all? It is only the external nature of Capricorn that is about mechanical functioning; the interior layers are every bit as sensitive as, say, Pisces.<\/p>\n The Times<\/em> of London reported today<\/strong><\/a>,<\/p>\n A research survey conducted by Morten Kringelbach, senior fellow at Oxford University\u0432\u0402\u2122s department of psychiatry, and reported in the Nature Reviews Neuroscience<\/em> journal, found that the orbitofrontal cortex could be a \u0432\u0402\u045anew stimulation target\u0432\u0402\u045c to help people suffering from anhedonia, an inability to experience pleasure from such activities. Stimulating this area can produce pleasure as intense as \u0432\u0402\u045adevouring a delicious pastry,\u0432\u0402\u045c he said.<\/p>\n His colleague Tipu Aziz, a professor of neurosurgery at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, predicted a significant breakthrough in the science behind a \u0432\u0402\u045asex chip\u0432\u0402\u045c within 10 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Here is the part I thought was funny. They actually tried to install one, once:<\/p>\n \u0432\u0402\u045aThere is evidence that this chip will work,\u0432\u0402\u045c Aziz said last week. \u0432\u0402\u045aA few years ago a scientist implanted such a device into the brain of a woman with a low sex drive and turned her into a very sexually active woman. She didn\u0432\u0402\u2122t like the sudden change, so the wiring in her head was removed.\u0432\u0402\u045c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ah yes, finally a solution to the allegedly low female sex drive. I think this may be the development that gets our civilization to the bottom of the ocean quicker than, say, the iPhone.<\/p>\n Note, there is an article about Atlantis coming in Next World Stories<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is the solstice with asteroid Atlantis, Pluto and the Sun piled up. How could I have missed the symbolism? Scientists yesterday announced the development of a sex chip: a brain implant that can send little jolts to the orbitofrontal cortex, which processes pleasure from food and sex. Who says the two are not related? … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,232,52,117,854],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}