Mary Roach
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Podcast Appearances
People were coming up to the attic and just, you know, the creativity was kind of amazing.
At one point there was this
there was a belief that when a couple was having trouble conceiving, it's because the sperm, the semen wasn't coming out enough.
It wasn't shooting out.
And there was this belief that it should be shooting out.
Kinsey was like, no, it just kind of glops.
And I'm going to prove this.
And he went out and he hired a bunch of male prostitutes, set up a camera, and put down two, I remember it was oriental carpets, and had them jerk off and then filmed the stuff coming out and did show that it mostly just glops, although there were some people with some very, you know, projectile ejaculations.
But anyway, I'm like, he had a question and he figured out a way to answer it.
And people who are having trouble conceiving would be like, oh, my God, my stuff isn't coming out right.
You know, it's like, no, no, it is.
It just needs to glop.
It's a gloppy thing.
It's not like a glorious fountain.
Okay, here's my favorite line.
There's lots, but this is the favorite.