Fit as a fiddle and ready for love

A remarkable article from the journal "Seizure" published last year (yes, I know that shows how rarely I read journals). This normally less than gripping read contains an article by Drs Chuang, Lin, Lui, Chen and Chang, in which they report the case of a 41 year old Taiwanese woman with an unusual kind of epilepsy.

She had what is called 'complex relex epilepsy'. In complex reflex epilepsy certain repetitive or stereotyped actions can bring on seizures, and in this woman's case her seizures were induced "exclusively by the act of brushing her teeth". This would normally be disconcerting enough, but in her case the sezures took an unusual form - "a specific sensation of sexual arousal and orgasm-like euphoria that were followed by a period of impairment of consciousness."

So basically this woman orgasms every time she brushes her teeth. While demonstrating this for the doctors (!) she managed an orgasm after brushing her teeth for 38 seconds, and once after 14 seconds.

Drs Chuang, Lin, Lui, Chen and Chang, demonstrating a remarkable ability to keep their minds on the job, suggest that "tooth-brushing epilepsy, especially with sexual ictal manifestations, may provide insight into the cerebral pathophysiology at the right temporolimbic structure".

I suggest this woman has the brightest smile in Taiwan.

Ayway, back to drugs and alcohol. Thanks for listening,
John