"Scientists have patented a new machine that will provide orgasms for women at the push of a button."

Electrodes would fit into the woman's spine and a signal generator would be implanted under the skin of a buttock. The inventor — a doctor who discovered the effect of the electrode on the spinal cord by accident — says the implantation is as invasive as getting a pacemaker.

1. Would you want to be able to have orgasms at the push of a button?

2. If you had a push-button orgasm device implanted inside you, how often would you push the button... on the first day... a week later... a year later?

3. Presumably that push-button orgasm capacity that requires a surgical operation as invasive as getting a pacemaker is a pretty unpleasant proposition, and in fact the inventor says it's only intended for women with the most serious of orgasmic dysfunctions, which I suppose means a woman who is never able to have an orgasm. That's not something that is going to kill you or ruin your health in any way. It is what it is. Since most of the time, one is not having an orgasm, a woman in the "most serious" condition is simply a woman who is always in the condition that everyone is nearly always in, the condition of not having an orgasm. But let's say you are a woman who finds herself permanently and chronically not having an orgasm. Would you submit to this operation? Consider that you need to be awake during the operation and the surgeon will poke around at your spinal cord with an electrode until he locates the spot that produces the orgasm.