In , a North Carolina doctor accidentally discovered a device that could make women cum at the drop of a hat. Two decades later, we've got nothing to show for it. This is the long, strange story of the Orgasmatron. Despite the fact that sex is a basic instinct and a near-universal experience, we know remarkably little about it. Lying on the operating table in nothing but a hospital robe, the woman suddenly lets out a breathy moan. In the late s, when other entrepreneurs were inventing Google, Furbies and the BlackBerry, a North Carolina doctor accidentally discovered the seemingly undiscoverable β a device that makes women cum at the push of a button.
Thomas Stuart Meloy was inserting a spinal stimulator into a patient with intractable leg pain in Winston-Salem when he made the surprise breakthrough.
Meloy realized that because the positioning of the device must have led to the mistake β the implant worked as planned when moved β an orgasm could be replicated in other patients. Joseph Martin in As reported by the L. The lucky winners had the device inserted into their backs at the bottom part of the spinal cord.
In both instances, the patient would receive a remote control to enable them to turn the stimulator on and off. Of the former group, four out five were able to cum again. The device was widely reported on at the time, and gained traction again in the mids after the story went viral on Reddit.
But nothing has been heard about it since, despite the initial trial being successful and there appearing to be at least some demand for it. In the years since his sudden and short-lived rise to fame, the anesthesiologist, still based in Winston-Salem, has founded a company called Advanced Interventional Pain Management which appears to have now shuttered and worked as a surgeon at Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants.
