I wish my 'orgasmatron' worked on 9 out of 10 women.

I thought Woody Allen discovered that in "Sleeper"

One of the funniest & complete movies of Allen! Slapstick & satire.

-- Modified on 11/18/2005 6:51:38 PM

There was a TV documentary about this here in the UK earlier in the year.  Here's a review of the programme's content:

TV review
Together in electric dreams

Sam Wollaston
Tuesday February 8, 2005
The Guardian


Nudity and orgasms today - two good subjects though it's not all good news, I'm afraid. In BodyShock: Orgasmatron (Channel 4) three women go in search of an orgasm. Not the same one - they all want their own. Jackie, Mary and Darlene suffer from anorgasmia, the inability to climax, and it's having adverse effects on their lives - their relationships, their happiness and of course their sex lives. "The way I feel about sex is I absolutely hate it," says Darlene. "I would rather wash the windows than have sex."

On the rare occasions that Darlene and her husband do have sex, she recites her multiplication tables in her head until Pete has done his business. And she's not multiplying orgasms.

But there's a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. He's an American doctor called Stuart Meloy and he has developed his very own orgasmatron. It happened by mistake - Dr Meloy was treating a patient's leg pain when suddenly the earth moved for her. Now he's going to act as guide for Jackie, Mary and Darlene in their search for that elusive orgasm.

It's not the sexiest process - not what most people would consider foreplay. Dr Meloy inserts a wire into the patient's spinal column, looking for the genital nerve bundles in there. Then he attaches a small generator, which has dials and switches. The woman, or her partner, can then twiddle the knobs - a bit like operating a model train set - until, with luck, things start to happen.

Trouble is, they don't - not for Jackie and Darlene, anyhow. They get a slight tingling feeling in their legs, but that's not what they came for. It's probably the leg-pain cure he's giving them. Darlene's going to get very good at her tables, it seems. Or her windows are going to get very clean.

For Mary, though, there's better news. "Oooh, now that's interesting," she says as Dr Meloy connects his generator.

"Would you characterise it as a pleasant sensation?" asks Meloy, slightly nervously (he's feeling a bit deflated from the other failures).

"Yes, actually," says Mary, getting a little flushed. "Take it up a little, just a fraction, so I can ... ah ha ha, that's quite an interesting feeling!"

And they keep on turning it up until, if it was a train set, the whole thing would fly off the track. At least there was one happy ending.

Review at http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,,1408168,00.html