Mary Roach

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1,088 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 26 Mar

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Ologies with Alie Ward · Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach · 17 Sep 2025 podcast

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.

And I was like, whoa, does that, you know, peristalsis, you know, the muscle, the contractions that move food along.

I thought, well, that could be kind of sexually exciting.

And he's like, Mary, no, that's a subtle contraction.

That does not, not part of the advantages of.

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