Your brain on an orgasm

Volunteers masturbated inside a functional MRI machine so that researchers could deepen their understanding of the female orgasm. They found that from build-up to orgasm, your brain lights up like Sydney Harbour on December 31.
AT FIRST TOUCH

The brain’s genital sensory cortex fires up. “The clitoris, vagina and cervix each stimulate different parts of the cortex,” says behavioural neuroscientist Dr Barry Komisaruk, who led the MRI study by Rutgers University, US.