<story><title>The Couple Who Shagged in an MRI Machine for Science</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgkzw/the-story-of-the-dutch-couple-ida-sabelis-pek-van-andel-sex-intercourse-mri-scanner-for-science</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>&amp;gt;“In many ways I think we’re going backwards,” Ida says. “I grew up in a time when sex wasn’t a big deal, and we’d always go bathing naked and people seemed more open minded. Now, people just seem to be getting more and more conservative.”&lt;p&gt;An observation I&amp;#x27;ve made too. I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s an accident that this was done in the Netherlands given that in central and Northern Europe in particular there was always a healthy and open attitude towards nudity and sexuality and a &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Freikörperkultur&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I noticed this with the decline of mixed saunas and changing rooms in public baths and I don&amp;#x27;t know if it&amp;#x27;s an Americanisation of culture but people seem to become increasingly neurotic about sexuality and people&amp;#x27;s bodies.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Couple Who Shagged in an MRI Machine for Science</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgkzw/the-story-of-the-dutch-couple-ida-sabelis-pek-van-andel-sex-intercourse-mri-scanner-for-science</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Excerpts from different parts of the piece:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“I realised I was the only woman in the room,” she recalls, and describes a pang of exasperation. “It was like, of course I’m the only woman in a study about women’s bodies!”&lt;p&gt;And at that moment Pek knew they’d achieved something more significant than an arts project; they’d re-written around 500 years of anatomical assumptions.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s actually really interesting stuff.</text></comment>