“I told her it might be a little weird, but the room would be completely blacked out with curtains.”ī-19 features in two 1972 papers: “Septal stimulation for the initiation of heterosexual behavior in a homosexual male,” by Heath and his colleague Charles E Moan, and “Pleasure and brain activity in man,” by Heath alone, which set out–apparently for the first time–what happens to human brainwaves during orgasm. “He agreed without reluctance … and during its showing became sexually aroused, had an erection, and masturbated to orgasm.” He started talking about wanting to have sex with women–and so Heath got permission to hire what he later referred to as a “lady of the evening.” “We paid her $50,” he said. Ten days into his treatment, the doctors suggested that B-19 watch the porn film again. Over the next few days, he found that it could arouse him, and he would press the button to stimulate himself “to a point that, both behaviorally and introspectively, he was experiencing an almost overwhelming euphoria and elation and had to be disconnected, despite his vigorous protests.” But then the stimulation sessions started, delivered via the button that felt most pleasurable to him.
Before being given control of the electrodes, B-19 had been shown a film “displaying heterosexual foreplay and intercourse.” He reacted with anger and revulsion.
