Surgeon Stuart Meloy of Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, became Dr Pleasure in February after he
inadvertently gave a woman an orgasm while using electrodes on her spine to
block painful nerve impulses. “You’ll have to teach my husband how to do that,”
she said. New Scientist sparked a worldwide media frenzy when it
revealed Meloy had patented his “orgasmatron”.
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