FOR some it will evoke images of Woody Allen’s “orgasmatron”. Others will recall the legendary cafe scene in When Harry Met Sally. Whatever leaps to mind, few of us will react with a completely straight face to the news that a woman in the US has become the first volunteer to try out a spinal implant designed to generate intense sexual arousal at the flick of a hand-held switch (see “Wanted: people to test orgasmatron”).
Our sniggers are not just about the sex. They betray a prejudice that respectable medicine can only ever be about combating disease, saving lives…
