Mary Roach

And the researcher...

had done this three-dimensional imaging of a penis, erect penis, and the idea being if somebody had, say, Peyronie's disease, where the erect penis goes crooked, which can be kind of painful, like he could preview by having, you know, by taking a 3D ultrasound movie of the patient's erecting penis, he could get a sense of,

what he was going to do in the surgery.

That was the idea.

And so I wrote to this doctor, Dr. Deng, D-E-N-G, and I was like, wow.

And then in that paper he said, you know what, for my next act, I'm going to bring a couple in and I'd like to, you know, film...

genitals in sexual congress, and I'm like, I need to be there for that.

So I wrote to him, you know, and I'm like, would it be okay if I came to London and was there to observe while you did this project?

And he's like, yeah, we could arrange that, but I've been unable to find a couple who want to do this.

So if your organization can provide...

a willing couple so my organization called its husband and I'm like yeah you know I said you haven't been to London in a long time let's go to London we could go see a play like yeah Jeremy Irons is in something we can go see a play and we'll go out to eat and we have to have sex in front of some guy with an ultrasound

And my husband is such a good sport, you know.

He's like, yeah, I mean, because early on he'd been like, oh, sex research, sign me up for that.

You know, I'm like, okay, here's your chance.

And it was so awkward, though.

Oh, my God.

Tell me everything.

It was just so, you know, because we're in the, you know, it's after hours.

We're in the radiology department.

There's no one around and everything.