Mary Roach
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One is, there's the fetus, and his little hand is...
right on his little penis.
And then in the second image, he's grasping it.
So it's two stills, but then if you read the letter, he says, the researcher, Israel Meisner, says that he observed a little guy playing with himself for like 15 minutes.
But when you think about it, I mean, there's nothing to do in there.
You're seven months old.
If you discovered that, you'd be like, oh, this is going to make the time go faster.
Oh, I just, like, sprinted to the copy machine.
Like, this is going in the book.
Well, you know, it wasn't my plan to be a subject in this study.
This was, again, an ultrasound study.
So you could take this sort of moving image, three-dimensional image of whatever the body part was.