WOMEN who can't have orgasms can now have a device implanted in their spines that will trigger the sensation for them. Clinical trials of the "orgasmatron" have begun in the US, but despite all the coverage, few are volunteering for the trial, according to the New Scientist magazine.

One woman has completed the first stage of the trial, and another is now being signed up for the procedure, in which wires connected to a battery pack are inserted through the skin and into the woman's spinal cord.

It's not difficult to imagine why they might be turned off the idea. None of us like to think that the buzz comes from anything as clinical as an implant. Like the sci-fi orgasmatron in Woody Allen's film in which people go in a Portaloo-type cubicle alone and come out satisfied, it just seems too sterile and nowhere near as romantic as a shy fumble in the back of the car with your brand new lover.

Yes, it might be today's medical science, but tomorrow, who's to say it will not be in demand by high flyers who schedule in their sex lives and needed that orgasm YESTERDAY! What will it do for the cause of trying to make your sex life work with a bit of old-fashioned communication and a relaxing massage?

LAST Saturday was a great day for England, but let's stop obsessing now. I'm not trying to underplay the achievement of the rugby team. It was a superb victory and we were all proud of the squad, whether we were fans of the game or not.

But ever since that drop goal, whatever that is, we have been reading about what the players have to eat for breakfast and what their fellow under-16s players thought of them way back when.

Soon, their former lovers will appear out of the woodwork with steamy exposes about these rugby hunks. I'm not being a sourpuss but let's just keep things in perspective.

Until last week, most of us didn't even know what a drop goal was. Now I can't stop hearing about how to perform the perfect try and that's just the girls talking.

But even more worrying, I hate to think what the excessive press coverage might do to these men, many of whom are private and protective of their family life.

Jonny Wilkinson has said he wants nothing to change. He seems to be an untainted sports hero who does not want to be a superstar like so many footballers. Let's not try and change him or turn our rugby team into an ad man's dream the tabloids can feed off. It's always handy to remember we didn't win a war, we won the rugby, which is a game a few fit men play on a Saturday.