In the interests of furthering scientific knowledge...

I like this headline.
Apparently, having warm feet increases the level of pleasure experienced during sex*.

MEN and women experience sexual pleasure in strikingly different ways, the first brain scans taken during orgasm show.

While male brains focus heavily on the physical stimulation involved in sexual contact, this is just one part of a much more complex picture for women, scientists in The Netherlands have found.

The experiments also reveal a surprising fact: both sexes find it easier to have an orgasm when they keep their socks on.

Draughts in the scanning room left couples complaining of "literally cold feet", and providing a pair of socks allowed 80per cent, rather than 50 per cent, to reach a climax while being scanned.

Of course, you could try moving the activity somewhere else besides a laboratory full of Melvins with microscopes. Like the back seat of a 1971 Holden.

The scans show that during sexual activity the parts of the female brain responsible for processing fear, anxiety and emotion start to relax and reduce in activity.

Funny, I've noticed the exact opposite.

This reaches a peak at orgasm, when the female brain's emotion centres are effectively closed down to an almost trance-like state.

This reaches a peak at what...? Do they have them, too?

The scientists found the male brain harder to study because of the orgasm's shorter duration.

Also the blokes were off down the pub to tell their mates all about it (suitably embellished, of course).

"Men find it more important to be stimulated on the penis than women find it to be stimulated on the clitoris," the University of Groningen's Gert Holstege told the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Copenhagen.

No shit, sherlock. Hence those old homilies "I'd fuck a black snake with a festered arse (if someone held its head)." , "I'd fuck a hole in a paling fence (If you sanded down the splinters)." and "I'd fuck the arse off a low-flying fruit bat." No qualifiers on the last one - Queensland bogans apparently find fruit bats to be very erotic.

The scans also show that while women may be able to fool their partners with a fake orgasm, the difference is obvious in the brain.

Parts of the brain that handle conscious movement light up during fake orgasms, but not during real ones, while emotion centres close down during the real thing but never when a woman is pretending.

An ex- of mine in Perth had a T-shirt she used to wear around the house which had "Men may control the world but they can't fake an orgasm" printed on the front.

For the study, a team at Groningen scanned the brains of 24 men and women using a technique called positron emission tomography.

Hahaha, they studied sex with a device that has the word 'emission' in it.
I'm so childish.
* I say apparently because I can't remember.