Mary Roach

And the more typical operation is to kind of invert the penis, you know, to do it that way.

But if that hasn't worked, you can actually take a stretch of the colon

and use that.

And I was just fascinated by just kind of the surgical creativity, you know, that somebody would go, well, I don't know, a colon, it's a tube, it's stretchy, it's moist.

I don't know, maybe that would work.

Let's give a shot.

Yeah.

And that's actually not that new.

Vaginoplasty using the intestinal tract has been done for, I think the

Earliest one was in the late 1800s.

Maybe it was early 1900s.

But anyway, it's been around a while, but it's been finessed quite a bit.

I was fascinated in kind of the amazing flexibility of the human body.

You know, you could take this organ that evolved as a digestive organ.

and turn it into a sexual organ.

And it works well.

With surgery, if you don't have an FDA clearance procedure, it's sort of like, well, if you've done something similar, and you have an idea to kind of change it a little bit to modify it, and you explain it to the patient, you just do it.

I was just kind of blown away by

kind of the resourcefulness, you know, and they'll say, well, what do we got in there?

We got, well, here's this kind of tubular thing that could be a vagina.