The Orgasmic Brain

Ecstasy? Agony? Euphoria? Surprisingly little is known about what happens in the brain at the very peak of our sexual experience. A Dutch team have done the unthinkable and scanned the brains of men and women during orgasm. This week, Natasha Mitchell probes for the neurobiology of the human orgasm. Would you put your hand up to have your brain scanned? And is the technology good enough to take a complete snapshot of what after all can be...a fleeting event.