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Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
Mary Roach: 10 coses que no sabíeu sobre l'orgasme
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Mary Roach, autora de "Bonk", s'endinsa en la recerca científica més arcana, de vegades amb segles d'antiguitat, per fer 10 afirmacions sorprenents sobre el clímax sexual, del més estrany al més divertit. (Aquesta xerrada va dirigida al públic adult. S'aconsella supervisió.)
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Death, the afterlife, and now sex -- Mary Roach tackles the most pondered and least understood conundrums that have baffled humans for centuries. (She's funny, too.) Full bio
Death, the afterlife, and now sex -- Mary Roach tackles the most pondered and least understood conundrums that have baffled humans for centuries. (She's funny, too.) Full bio
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Alright. I'm going to show you a couple of images
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Molt bé. Us mostraré un parell d'imatges
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from a very diverting paper
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d'un article molt entretingut
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in The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
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del Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
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I'm going to go way out on a limb and say that it is the most diverting paper
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M'aventuraré a dir que és l'article més entretingut
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ever published in The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
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mai publicat al Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
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The title is "Observations of In-Utero Masturbation."
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Es titula "Observacions de la masturbació intrauterina"
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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Okay. Now on the left you can see the hand -- that's the big arrow --
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Bé. A l'esquerra hi podeu veure la mà. És la fletxa grossa.
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and the penis on the right. The hand hovering.
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I el penis a la dreta. La mà passa per sobre.
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And over here we have,
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I aquí hi tenim,
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in the words of radiologist Israel Meisner,
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en paraules del radiòleg Israel Meisner:
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"The hand grasping the penis in a fashion resembling masturbation movements."
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"la mà agafa el penis de manera que recorda el moviment de la masturbació."
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Bear in mind this was an ultrasound,
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Penseu que això era una ecografia.
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so it would have been moving images.
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O sigui que eren imatges en moviment.
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Orgasm is a reflex of the autonomic nervous system.
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L'orgasme és un reflex del sistema nerviós autònom.
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Now this is the part of the nervous system
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És la part del sistema nerviós
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that deals with the things that we don't consciously control,
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que s'ocupa de les coses que no controlem conscientment.
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like digestion, heart rate and sexual arousal.
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Com ara la digestió, el ritme cardíac, l'excitació sexual.
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And the orgasm reflex can be triggered
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2. NO CALEN ELS GENITALS. I el reflex de l'orgasme es pot donar
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by a surprisingly broad range of input.
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per una varietat sorprenentment àmplia d'estímuls.
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Genital stimulation. Duh.
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Estimulació genital. Esclar.
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But also Kinsey interviewed a woman
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Però Kinsey també va entrevistar una dona
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who could be brought to orgasm
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que podia arribar a l'orgasme
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by having someone stroke her eyebrow.
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si li acariciaven la cella.
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People with spinal cord injuries,
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Les persones amb lesions de medul·la espinal,
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like paraplegias, quadriplegias,
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paraplegies o tetraplegies,
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will often develop a very, very sensitive area
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sovint desenvolupen una zona molt i molt sensible
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right above the level of their injury,
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just per sobre del nivell de la seva lesió.
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wherever that is.
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Sigui on sigui.
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There is such a thing as a knee orgasm in the literature.
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Està documentat l'orgasme de genoll.
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I think the most curious one that I came across
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Crec que el més curiós que m'he trobat
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was a case report of a woman
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era el cas d'una dona
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who had an orgasm every time she brushed her teeth.
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que tenia un orgasme cada cop que es rentava les dents.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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This was something in the complex
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Hi havia alguna cosa en l'acció
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sensory-motor action of brushing her teeth
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sensora-motora complexa de rentar-se les dents
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was triggering orgasm.
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que li desencadenava l'orgasme.
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And she went to a neurologist who was fascinated.
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Es va fer visitar per un neuròleg que estava fascinat.
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He checked to see if it was something in the toothpaste,
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Va mirar que no fos per la pasta de dents.
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but no -- it happened with any brand.
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Però no, li passava amb qualsevol marca.
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They stimulated her gums
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Li van estimular les genives
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with a toothpick, to see if that was doing it.
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amb un escuradents, per veure si era això.
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No. It was the whole, you know, motion.
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No. Era pel conjunt de moviments.
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And the amazing thing to me is that
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El que em sorprèn més és que
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now you would think this woman would like have
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em semblaria normal que aquesta dona tingués
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excellent oral hygiene.
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una higiene bucal perfecta.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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Sadly she -- this is what it said in the journal paper --
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Per desgràcia, tal com havia declarat per a l'article:
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"She believed that she was possessed by demons
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"Creia que estava posseïda per dimonis
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and switched to mouthwash for her oral care."
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i va canviar el raspallat per col·lutoris."
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It's so sad.
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És tristíssim.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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I interviewed, when I was working on the book,
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Vaig entrevistar, quan preparava el llibre,
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I interviewed a woman who can think herself to orgasm.
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vaig entrevistar una dona que arriba a l'orgasme amb el pensament.
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She was part of a study at Rutgers University.
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Formava part d'un estudi de la Rutgers University.
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You gotta love that. Rutgers.
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M'encanta com sona. Rutgers.
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So I interviewed her in Oakland,
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Doncs la vaig entrevistar a Oakland,
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in a sushi restaurant.
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en un restaurant de sushi.
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And I said, "So, could you do it right here?"
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I li dic: "Ho podries fer aquí mateix?"
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And she said, "Yeah, but you know I'd rather finish my meal if you don't mind."
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I em diu: "Sí, però prefereixo acabar de dinar, si no t'importa."
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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But afterwards she was kind enough to demonstrate
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Però després va ser tan amable de demostrar-m'ho
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on a bench outside.
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en un banc del carrer.
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It was remarkable. It took about one minute.
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Era ben notable. Li va costar un minut.
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And I said to her,
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I li vaig dir:
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"Are you just doing this all the time?"
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"I ho fas constantment?"
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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She said, "No. Honestly when I get home I'm usually too tired."
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I em diu: "No. Sincerament, arribo a casa massa cansada."
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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She said that the last time she had done it
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Em va dir que l'últim cop ho havia fet
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was on the Disneyland tram.
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al tramvia de Disneylàndia.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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The headquarters for orgasm, along the spinal nerve,
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La central de l'orgasme, en el nervi espinal,
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is something called the sacral nerve root, which is back here.
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està en l'anomenada arrel del nervi sacre. Que queda per aquí.
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And if you trigger, if you stimulate with an electrode,
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I si desencadeneu, si estimuleu amb un elèctrode
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the precise spot, you will trigger an orgasm.
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el punt just, es desencadena un orgasme.
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And it is a fact that you can trigger spinal reflexes
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3. ELS MORTS EN PODEN TENIR. Està demostrat que es poden fer saltar reflexos espinals
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in dead people --
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en persones mortes.
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a certain kind of dead person, a beating-heart cadaver.
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En certs morts, cadàvers amb el cor que batega.
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Now this is somebody who is brain-dead,
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Es tracta de persones amb mort cerebral,
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legally dead, definitely checked out,
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legalment mortes, tot ben mirat,
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but is being kept alive on a respirator,
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però que es mantenen en respiració artificial,
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so that their organs will be oxygenated
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perquè els òrgans estiguin oxigenats
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for transplantation.
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per a trasplantaments.
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Now in one of these brain-dead people,
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En una d'aquestes persones amb mort cerebral,
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if you trigger the right spot,
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si se'ls estimula el lloc exacte,
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you will see something every now and then.
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de tant en tant es veu una cosa.
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There is a reflex called the Lazarus reflex.
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Hi ha un reflex anomenat reflex de Llàtzer.
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And this is -- I'll demonstrate as best I can, not being dead.
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I és, miraré de fer-ho tan bé com pugui, estant viva.
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It's like this. You trigger the spot.
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És així. Es toca el punt.
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The dead guy, or gal, goes ... like that.
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El mort, o la morta fa... així.
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Very unsettling for people working in pathology labs.
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Molt inquietant per a la gent dels laboratoris patològics.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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Now if you can trigger the Lazarus reflex in a dead person,
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Si es pot desencadenar el reflex de Llàtzer en un mort,
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why not the orgasm reflex?
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per què no el reflex de l'orgasme?
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I asked this question to a brain death expert,
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Vaig fer aquesta pregunta a una experta en mort cerebral,
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Stephanie Mann, who was foolish enough to return my emails.
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Stephanie Mann, que va cometre l'error de respondre als meus emails.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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I said, "So, could you conceivably
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Li vaig dir: "Doncs, en principi es pot
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trigger an orgasm in a dead person?"
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donar un orgasme en una persona morta?"
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She said, "Yes, if the sacral nerve is being oxygenated,
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I em va contestar: "Sí, si el nervi sacre està oxigenat.
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you conceivably could."
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En principi, es podria."
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Obviously it wouldn't be as much fun for the person.
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Òbviament, la persona no s'ho passaria bé.
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But it would be an orgasm --
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Però seria un orgasme...
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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nonetheless.
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al cap i a la fi.
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I actually suggested to -- there is a researcher at the University of Alabama
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De fet vaig suggerir... Hi ha una investigadora a la Universitat d'Alabama
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who does orgasm research.
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que fa recerca sobre l'orgasme.
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I said to her, "You should do an experiment.
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Li vaig dir: "Hauries de fer un experiment.
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You know? You can get cadavers if you work at a university."
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Oi? Pots accedir a cadàvers, treballant a la universitat.
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I said, "You should actually do this."
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Li dic: "Ho hauries de fer, de debò."
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She said, "You get the human subjects review board approval for this one."
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I em va contestar: "L'aprovació de la junta l'aconsegueixes tu!"
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles) 4. L'ORGASME POT DONAR MAL ALÈ
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According to 1930s marriage manual author,
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Segons l'autor d'un manual matrimonial dels anys 30,
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Theodoor van de Velde,
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Theodoor Van de Velde,
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a slight seminal odor can be detected on the breath of a woman
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es pot detectar una lleugera olor seminal a l'alè de la dona
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within about an hour after sexual intercourse.
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passada una hora de la relació sexual.
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Theodoor van de Velde was something of a semen connoisseur.
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Theodoor Van de Velde era un conoisseur del semen.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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This is a guy writing a book, "Ideal Marriage," you know.
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Parlem d'un paio que ha escrit el llibre "Matrimoni ideal".
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Very heavy hetero guy.
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Un heterosexual convençut.
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But he wrote in this book, "Ideal Marriage" --
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Però al seu llibre "Matrimoni ideal"
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he said that he could differentiate between the semen of a young man,
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deia que sabia diferenciar entre el semen d'un home jove,
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which he said had a fresh, exhilarating smell,
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que segons ell té una olor fresca, tonificant,
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and the semen of mature men,
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i el semen dels homes madurs,
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whose semen smelled quote,
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que fa una olor, segons ell,
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"Remarkably like that of the flowers of the Spanish chestnut.
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"notablement semblant a les flors de la noguera espanyola.
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Sometimes quite freshly floral,
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De vegades fresca i floral,
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and then again sometimes extremely pungent."
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i altres vegades extremament agre."
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(Laughter)
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5. I CURA EL SINGLOT (Rialles)
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Okay. In 1999, in the state of Israel,
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D'acord. El 1999, a l'estat d'Israel,
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a man began hiccupping.
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un home va comencar a tenir singlot.
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And this was one of those cases that went on and on.
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Era un cas d'aquests que el singlot no s'acaba.
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He tried everything his friends suggested.
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Havia provat tot el que li suggerien els amics.
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Nothing seemed to help.
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No hi havia res a fer.
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Days went by. At a certain point, the man,
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Passaven els dies. Al final l'home,
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still hiccupping, had sex with his wife.
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encara amb singlot, va fer sexe amb la seva dona.
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And lo and behold, the hiccups went away.
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I inesperadament, el singlot se li va aturar.
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He told his doctor, who published a case report
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Ho va explicar al seu metge, que va publicar un informe del cas
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in a Canadian medical journal under the title,
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en una revista mèdica canadenca, amb el títol:
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"Sexual Intercourse as a Potential Treatment
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"Relacions sexuals com a tractament potencial
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for Intractable Hiccups."
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del singlot intractable."
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I love this article because at a certain point they suggested
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M'encanta aquest article quan suggereix
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that unattached hiccuppers could try masturbation.
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que els singlotadors sense parella provin la masturbació.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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I love that because there is like a whole demographic: unattached hiccuppers.
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M'encanta perquè hi ha tot un grup demogràfic. Singlotadors sense parella.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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Married, single, unattached hiccupper.
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Casats. Solters. Singlotadors sense parella.
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In the 1900s, early 1900s
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6. ELS METGES EL RECEPTAVEN PER A LA FERTILITAT. Cap al 1900, a principis del segle XX,
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gynecologists, a lot of gynecologists believed
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molts ginecòlegs creien
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that when a woman has an orgasm
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que, quan una dona té un orgasme,
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the contractions serve to suck the semen up through the cervix
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les contraccions serveixen per succionar el semen per la cèrvix
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and sort of deliver it really quickly to the egg,
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com per fer-lo arribar més de pressa a l'òvul.
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thereby upping the odds of conception.
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Així augmentarien les possibilitats de concebre.
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It was called the "upsuck" theory.
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S'anomenava teoria de la "succió".
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
07:44
If you go all the way back to Hippocrates,
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Si ens remuntem a Hipòcrates,
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physicians believed that orgasm in women was not just
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els metges creien que l'orgasme de les dones no era només
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helpful for conception, but necessary.
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útil per a la concepció, sinó necessari.
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Doctors back then were routinely telling men
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Els metges d'aleshores alliçonaven els homes
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the importance of pleasuring their wives.
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sobre la importància de donar plaer a la seva dona.
08:03
Marriage-manual author and semen-sniffer
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L'autor del manual sobre matrimoni, i ensumador de semen,
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Theodoor van de Velde --
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Theodoor Van de Velde,
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
08:08
has a line in his book.
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té una frase al seu llibre.
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I loved this guy. I got a lot of mileage out of Theodoor van de Velde.
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M'encanta aquest home. Theodoor Van de Velde em dóna molt de joc.
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He had this line in his book
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Té una frase al llibre,
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that supposedly comes from the Habsburg Monarchy,
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que suposadament prové del regnat dels Habsburg.
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where there was an empress Maria Theresa,
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L'emperadriu Maria Teresa,
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who was having trouble conceiving.
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que tenia problemes per quedar en estat.
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And apparently the royal court physician said to her,
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I sembla que el metge reial li va dir:
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"I am of the opinion
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"Sóc del parer
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that the vulva of your most sacred majesty
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que la vulva de la vostra sagrada majestat
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be titillated for some time prior to intercourse."
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s'hauria d'estimular una mica abans de la relació."
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
08:36
It's apparently, I don't know, on the record somewhere.
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Sembla que, no sé, consta per escrit en algun lloc.
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Masters and Johnson: now we're moving forward to the 1950s.
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Masters i Johnson; ara avancem fins als anys 50.
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Masters and Johnson were upsuck skeptics,
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Masters i Johnson eren escèptics sobre la succió.
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which is also really fun to say.
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Que també fa gràcia, l'expressió.
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They didn't buy it.
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No s'ho empassaven.
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And they decided, being Masters and Johnson,
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Van decidir, com és digne de Masters i Johnson,
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that they would get to the bottom of it.
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que arribarien fins al fons de la qüestió.
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They brought women into the lab -- I think it was five women --
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Van fer venir dones al laboratori. Crec que van ser cinc dones.
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and outfitted them with cervical caps
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I els van posar uns caputxons cervicals
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containing artificial semen.
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que contenien semen artificial.
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And in the artificial semen
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El semen artificial
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was a radio-opaque substance,
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contenia una substància ràdioopaca
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such that it would show up on an X-ray.
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de manera que es veia en una radiografia.
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This is the 1950s.
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Parlem de mitjans dels 50.
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Anyway these women sat in front of an X-ray device.
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Doncs aquestes dones es van asseure a l'aparell de raigs X.
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And they masturbated.
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I es van masturbar.
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And Masters and Johnson looked to see if the semen was being sucked up.
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Masters i Johnson van observar per veure si el semen se succionava cap amunt.
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Did not find any evidence of upsuck.
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No van trobar cap evidència de succió.
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You may be wondering, "How do you make artificial semen?"
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Potser us esteu preguntant: "Com es fa el semen artificial?"
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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I have an answer for you. I have two answers.
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Us tinc una resposta. Tinc dues respostes.
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You can use flour and water, or cornstarch and water.
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Es pot fer servir farina i aigua, o bé midó i aigua.
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I actually found three separate recipes in the literature.
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He trobat tres receptes diferents a la literatura mèdica.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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My favorite being the one that says --
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La meva preferida és una que diu,
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you know, they have the ingredients listed,
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bé, té una llista d'ingredients,
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and then in a recipe it will say, for example,
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i normalment les receptes diuen, per exemple:
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"Yield: two dozen cupcakes."
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"Surten: 24 magdalenes"
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This one said, "Yield: one ejaculate."
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Aquesta deia "Surt: una ejaculació".
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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There's another way that orgasm might boost fertility.
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Hi ha una altra manera en què l'orgasme potencia la fertilitat.
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This one involves men.
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Aquesta implica els homes.
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Sperm that sit around in the body for a week or more
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L'esperma que porta una setmana o més dins del cos
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start to develop abnormalities
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comença a desenvolupar anormalitats
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that make them less effective at head-banging their way
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que el fan menys efectiu a l'hora d'arribar de pressa
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into the egg.
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a l'òvul.
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British sexologist Roy Levin
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El sexòleg britànic Roy Levin
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has speculated that this is perhaps why men
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ha especulat que potser per això els homes
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evolved to be such enthusiastic and frequent masturbators.
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han evolucionat per masturbar-se amb tant d'entusiasme i freqüència.
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He said, "If I keep tossing myself off
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Diu: "Mentre em continuï tocant,
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I get fresh sperm being made."
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vaig produint esperma fresc."
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Which I thought was an interesting idea, theory.
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Em va semblar una idea interessant, com a teoria.
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So now you have an evolutionary excuse.
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Ja teniu una excusa darwiniana.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
10:34
Okay.
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Bé. 6. ELS METGES EL RECEPTAVEN PER A LA FERTILITAT
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7. ELS GRANGERS DE PORCS ENCARA HI CREUEN (Rialles)
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Alrighty. There is considerable evidence for upsuck in the animal kingdom --
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Molt bé. Hi ha força evidències de succió al regne animal.
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pigs, for instance.
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Els porcs, per exemple.
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In Denmark, the Danish National Committee for Pig Production
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A Dinamarca, el Comitè Nacional Danès de Producció Porcina
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found out that if you
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ha descobert que si
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sexually stimulate a sow while you artificially inseminate her,
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s'estimula sexualment una truja quan se l'insemina artificialment,
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you will see a six-percent increase in the farrowing rate,
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hi ha un 6% d'augment en la taxa de cria,
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which is the number of piglets produced.
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que és el nombre de porquets nascuts.
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So they came up with this plan, this five-point stimulation plan
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Se'ls va ocórrer aquest pla. Un pla d'estimulació en 5 punts
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for the sows.
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per a les truges.
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And they had the farmers -- there is posters they put in the barn,
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Els grangers tenen uns pòsters penjats a l'estable,
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and they have a DVD.
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i els donen un DVD.
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And I got a copy of this DVD.
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Tinc una còpia d'aquest DVD.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
11:15
This is my unveiling, because I am going to show you a clip.
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Ara el presentaré. Us posaré un fragment del DVD.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
11:21
So uh, okay.
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Molt bé, doncs.
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Now here we go in to the -- la la la, off to work.
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Aquí teniu com... la, la, la... cap a la feina.
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It all looks very innocent.
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Tot molt innocent.
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He's going to be doing things with his hands
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Ha de fer coses amb les mans
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that the boar would use his snout, lacking hands. Okay.
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que el porc faria amb el morro, donat que no té mans.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
11:38
This is it. The boar has a very odd courtship repertoire.
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És això. El verro té un repertori de festeig molt estrany,
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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This is to mimic the weight of the boar.
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Això és per imitar el pes del verro.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
11:52
You should know, the clitoris of the pig, inside the vagina.
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Heu de saber que el clítoris de la truja és a dins la vagina.
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So this may be sort of titillating for her. Here we go.
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Això li pot resultar agradable. Som-hi, doncs.
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(Laughter)
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And the happy result.
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El feliç desenllaç.
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(Applause)
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(Aplaudiments)
12:24
I love this video.
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M'encanta aquest vídeo.
12:26
There is a point in this video, towards the beginning
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En un moment del vídeo, cap al començament
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where they zoom in for a close up of his hand with his wedding ring,
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quan s'acosten a fer un primer pla de la mà amb l'anell de casat,
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as if to say, "It's okay, it's just his job. He really does like women."
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com volent dir: "No passa res, és la seva feina. Li agraden les dones."
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles) 8. LES FEMELLES GAUDEIXEN MÉS DEL QUE US PENSEU
12:39
Okay. Now I said -- when I was in Denmark, my host was named Anne Marie.
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Bé. Ja us he dit que, quan era a Dinamarca, la meva amfitriona es deia Anne Marie.
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And I said, "So why don't you just stimulate the clitoris of the pig?
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Jo li deia: "Per què no li estimuleu el clítoris i prou?"
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Why don't you have the farmers do that?
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Per què no fan això, els grangers?
12:50
That's not one of your five steps."
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No es cap dels vostres 5 passos."
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She said -- I have to read you what she said, because I love it.
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Em va contestar: "Us llegiré el que em va dir, perquè m'encanta."
12:54
She said, "It was a big hurdle
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Diu: "Va ser un gran entrebanc
12:56
just to get farmers to touch underneath the vulva.
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aconseguir que els grangers toquessin per sota la vulva.
12:59
So we thought, let's not mention the clitoris right now."
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Vam pensar que era millor no parlar del clítoris de moment."
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
13:07
Shy but ambitious pig farmers, however, can purchase a -- this is true --
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Els grangers tímids però ambiciosos, poden comprar (de debò!)
13:10
a sow vibrator,
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un vibrador per a truges,
13:12
that hangs on the sperm feeder tube to vibrate.
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que es penja al tub de l'esperma i el fa vibrar.
13:14
Because, as I mentioned,
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Perquè, com ja he dit,
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the clitoris is inside the vagina.
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el clítoris és a l'interior de la vagina.
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So possibly, you know, a little more arousing than it looks.
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Segurament, doncs, una mica més excitant del que sembla.
13:22
And I also said to her,
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També li vaig dir:
13:24
"Now these sows. I mean, you may have noticed there,
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"Aquestes truges... Ja us deveu haver adonat
13:26
The sow doesn't look to be in the throes of ecstasy."
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que les truges no sembla que gaudeixin un gran èxtasi."
13:29
And she said, you can't make that conclusion,
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I em diu: "No es pot treure aquesta conclusió."
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because animals don't register
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Perquè els animals no reflecteixen
13:34
pain or pleasure on their faces in the same way that we do.
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el dolor ni el plaer a la cara, com fem nosaltres.
13:36
They tend to -- pigs, for example, are more like dogs.
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Tendeixen... els porcs, per exemple, són més com els gossos.
13:40
They use the upper half of the face; the ears are very expressive.
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Fan servir la part superior de la cara. Tenen les orelles molt expressives.
13:43
So you're not really sure what's going on with the pig.
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No sabem ben bé com se senten els porcs.
13:46
Primates, on the other hand, we use our mouths more.
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Els primats, d'altra banda, fem servir més la boca.
13:50
This is the ejaculation face of the stump-tailed macaque.
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Aquesta és la cara que fa un macaco de cua curta amb l'ejaculació.
13:54
(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
13:56
And, interestingly, this has been observed in female macaques,
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És interessant que s'hagi observat en macacos femella.
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but only when mounting another female.
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Però només quan munten una altra femella.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles) 9. ESTUDIAR L'ORGASME HUMÀ EN UN LABORATORI NO ÉS FÀCIL
14:07
Masters and Johnson, in the 1950s, they decided,
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Masters i Johnson, els anys 50, van decidir
14:09
okay, we're going to figure out the entire human sexual response cycle,
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que esbrinarien com funciona el cicle complet de la resposta sexual humana.
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from arousal, all the way through orgasm, in men and women --
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Des de l'excitació, fins a l'orgasme, en homes i dones.
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everything that happens in the human body.
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Tot el que passa en el cos humà.
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Okay, with women, a lot of this is happening inside.
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D'acord, amb les dones, molta part passa per dins.
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This did not stop Masters and Johnson.
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Això no va aturar Masters i Johnson.
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They developed an artificial coition machine.
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Van fabricar una màquina de coit artificial.
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This is basically a penis camera on a motor.
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Bàsicament un penis amb càmera i motor.
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There is a phallus,
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Hi ha un fal·lus,
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clear acrylic phallus, with a camera and a light source,
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un fal·lus acrílic transparent, amb una càmera i una llumeta,
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attached to a motor that is kind of going like this.
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enganxada a un motor que fa així.
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And the woman would have sex with it.
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I la dona hi té relacions sexuals.
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That is what they would do. Pretty amazing.
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Ho feien així. Déu n'hi do.
14:45
Sadly, this device has been dismantled.
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Desgraciadament, l'aparell es va desmuntar.
14:47
This just kills me, not because I wanted to use it --
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Em sap tant de greu. No perquè el volgués fer servir.
14:49
I wanted to see it.
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El volia veure.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles) 9. ESTUDIAR L'ORGASME HUMÀ EN UN LABORATORI NO ÉS FÀCIL
14:55
One fine day
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10. PERÒ ALMENYS ÉS DIVERTIT. Un bon dia,
14:58
Alfred Kinsey decided
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Alfred Kinsey va decidir
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to calculate the average distance traveled by ejaculated semen.
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calcular la distància mitjana de desplaçament del semen ejaculat.
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This was not idle curiosity.
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No pas per pura curiositat.
15:08
Doctor Kinsey had heard --
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El doctor Kinsey havia sentit a dir...
15:12
and there was a theory kind of going around at the time, this being the 1940s --
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hi havia una teoria de l'època, a mitjans dels anys 40,
15:15
that the force with which
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que deia que la força amb què
15:17
semen is thrown against the cervix
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el semen es dispara contra la cèrvix
15:19
was a factor in fertility.
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era un factor de fertilitat.
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Kinsey thought it was bunk, so he got to work.
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Kinsey ho trobava molt estrany. I es va posar a treballar.
15:25
He got together in his lab
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Va quedar al seu laboratori
15:28
300 men, a measuring tape, and a movie camera.
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amb 300 homes, una cinta de mesurar i una càmera de cine.
15:33
(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
15:35
And in fact he found
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I de fet va descobrir
15:37
that in three quarters of the men
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que en tres quartes parts dels homes
15:40
the stuff just kind of slopped out.
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la cosa es vessava i poca cosa més.
15:42
It wasn't spurted or thrown or ejected under great force.
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No sortia disparat amb una gran força.
15:46
However, the record holder
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Tanmateix, la millor marca
15:50
landed just shy of the eight-foot mark, which is impressive.
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va estar una mica per sota dels 2,5 metres. Impressionant.
15:52
(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
15:54
(Applause)
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(Aplaudiments)
15:55
Yes. Exactly.
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Sí. Exacte.
15:57
(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
15:58
Sadly, he's anonymous. His name is not mentioned.
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Per desgràcia, és anònim. El seu nom no s'esmenta.
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In his write-up,
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Al seu informe,
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in his write-up of this experiment in his book,
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a l'informe d'aquest experiment, al llibre,
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Kinsey wrote,
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Kinsey escriu:
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"Two sheets were laid down to protect the oriental carpets."
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"Es van estendre dos llençols per tapar les catifes orientals."
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
16:16
Which is my second favorite line
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És la meva segona frase preferida
16:18
in the entire oeuvre of Alfred Kinsey.
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de tota l'obra d'Alfred Kinsey.
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My favorite being, "Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats
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La meva preferida és: "Si s'escampen engrunes de formatge davant de rates copulant
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will distract the female, but not the male."
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la femella es distreu, però el mascle no."
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
16:29
Thank you very much.
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Moltes gràcies.
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(Applause)
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(Aplaudiments)
16:35
Thanks!
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Gràcies!
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mary Roach - WriterDeath, the afterlife, and now sex -- Mary Roach tackles the most pondered and least understood conundrums that have baffled humans for centuries. (She's funny, too.)
Why you should listen
Freelance writer and humorist turned accidental science journalist Mary Roach likes to ask the questions we all wonder about but are usually too polite to mention. What happens after we die, anyway? How fast do cadavers rot? Can a corpse have an orgasm?
Writing the Health & Body column for Salon.com quickened her interest in the dead -- that, and looking at the hit count for her columns on cadavers. Her books Stiff and Spook sprung out of research done for a proposed Salon column called the Dead Beat (sadly, it was killed). Her most recent book, Bonk, is a romp through the current landscape of gynecology, sex research and the adult novelty industry.
In addition to her dry (and sometimes silly) wit, Roach has a penchant for funny voices, faking her way through interviews with expert scientists, and wheedling her way into strange locales, among them a dildo factory and under the business end of an ultrasound wand during coitus.
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