Mary Roach

Well, they thought I was a researcher.

So people would write to me this... You know, I got a woman who said, on a good day, putting lip gloss on will do it.

And another guy wrote to me and said, you know, every time I ride a bicycle, I have an orgasm.

And when I go somewhere, I'm anticipating it's going to happen, and if it hasn't happened, I'll kind of ride around for a while, and it makes me late.

It was this whole story.

Wow.

So just...

You know, people are wired in different ways.

Right.

Why do you think this is?

Why?

Because it's where crap comes out, where shit comes out.

It's just very personal, and it's smelly and germy, and so there's all kinds of reasons why it would be taboo.

But the fact that it is taboo, there's risks associated with that.

Like you mentioned, there was no—

There's no ribbon for anal cancer.

Farrah Fawcett died of anal cancer, and the news, it just was reported as colon cancer.

It was like down there cancer.

Nobody really even talked about it.

And I remember reading about the early days of anatomy, partly because this was before air conditioning, and, you know, the—