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Mary Roach

πŸ‘€ Speaker
1088 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

I don't know, maybe that would work.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Let's give a shot.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Yeah.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

And that's actually not that new.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Earliest one was in the late 1800s.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Maybe it was early 1900s.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

and turn it into a sexual organ.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

And it works well.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

I was just kind of blown away by

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

That does not, not part of the advantages of.