Mary Roach

I need stuff going on.

What do you got?

What's coming up?

What can I see?

Sometimes that's been difficult.

For my third book, Bonk, which had to do with the study of sexual physiology, people researching sexual physiology.

Well, that means people coming into a lab and being aroused and having orgasms and

You know, and then I'm like, oh, can I be there with my notepad and my tape recorder?

Yeah, yeah.

It was actually ultrasound, which is even worse.

At least with an MRI, you would have some privacy, right?

It's like the guy with the white coat with the wand, the ultrasound wand on my belly and my husband is behind me.

And it's really like, I can't even believe.

I can't even believe that we did that.

I mean, it's a while ago.

That was 2008.

But at the time, I thought, this is going to be really fun to write up.

And it was incredibly awkward and embarrassing and weird.

But at the same time, I was like, this is going to be a fun chapter.

It was a situation where I initially really didn't want to go into stem cells and bioprinting.