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Mary Roach

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Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

And I was looking at the eyes and the mouth.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

So I wasn't tuned in to how the sound might have been showing her delight.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

Wow.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

Yeah.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

Pigs have aβ€”I feel the pigs have a very vibrant sex life.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

Not only is the ejaculation going on for minutes at a time, five minutes apparently, the female, the clitoris, is right just inside the vagina.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

So it's getting stimulated.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

So if the sow isβ€”

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

enjoying things, then it is, you know, it does affect conception.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

And I was like, whoa, does that mean, you know, whoa, how do we jive that with, does this mean that women, in women, does this happen also?

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

Because there's a number of studies.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

There was like hamster and gerbil and

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

rodent other rodent studies that maybe it did affect fertility so along come masters and johnson masters and johnson to the rescue they're like i don't think so i don't think so at all and we're going to prove it and so they did here again the creativity of these researchers was amazing and they're like okay here's what we do we make some artificial semen okay and i had the recipe in the book i think it involved corn starch anyway and they had to be

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

The right viscosity and everything.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

They put it in a sort of a cervical cap and installed it or the woman, you know, put it in and then they set her up in front of an x-ray machine and she masturbated and they took x-rays because, you know, the radio opaque so it'll show up.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

So the semen will show up so they can see if it's being sucked up during orgasm.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

And that's what they did, and they didn't see any upsuck.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

No, no, they didn't find that that happened.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

Also, someone else pointed out that the uterine contractions are expulsive.

Science Vs
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach

They're not sucking in.