Mary Roach

If you're going to have sex in front of a researcher with an ultrasound wand, Dr. Dung would be a good, you know, he's just so kind of matter of fact.

He did offer to play some music, right, as well?

Oh, God, yeah, he did.

Yeah, he goes, and I was kidding, and I said, where's the romantic lighting and music?

And he goes, oh, wait, on my laptop, I have the soundtrack to Les Mis?

Well, I had that sense of, you know, science was, I equated it with science homework and, you know, the textbooks that I had to read.

And I, it just, it seemed like a slog.

And then I started, I started out doing just mainstream journalism writing.

was given these assignments that were just, that were so interesting and they were so, I mean, I did a lot of traveling and I began to realize that science is basically you, your body, your computer, your dog, the world.

I mean, how could it be boring?

It's basically how the world works.

Science, it's all about following your curiosity and just sort of asking why and how.

Yeah, that was, well, I was...

Looking around for another book topic.

This is my third book.

And around that time, I was looking through, it was an old back issue of some film, some really kind of nerdy film journal.

I don't remember why or what waiting room I was in, but there was a reference to the colposcopic films of Masters and Johnson.

And I was thinking colposcopy, that's something to do with the cervix.

And I'm like, holy crap, did they actually...

film inside a woman's body.