Word: experimental
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Some couples experiment a few times but return to what serious SM-ers call "vanilla" sex. Others become more deeply involved in the SM scene; they use SM props or fantasies every time they have sex. The scene has become so large and varied that it encompasses the rich farrago...
This cycle (or its reverse) was repeated six times--enabling us to collect 144 scans of different brain regions for each participant. After the experiment was over, I interviewed all the subjects again, asking how they felt and what they were thinking about during all parts of the test. To...
After a conversation with a neuroscientist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, I developed a scheme. I would collect data on brain activity while love-smitten subjects performed two separate tasks: looking at a photograph of his or her beloved and looking at a "neutral" photograph of an acquaintance...
--THE EXPERIMENT
The procedure was simple but not easy. First Mashek and I made the participant as comfortable as possible in the scanner--a large, horizontal, cylindrical, cream-colored plastic tube that is open at both ends and extends from above the head to about the waist. After taking preliminary scans to...