Perrin Ireland

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How to Be a Better Human · Why should you care about animal sex? (w/ Perrin Ireland) · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And I did a bit about this genital morphologist, Patricia Brennan.

It's a section of the book where she makes these dental silicone, what she calls vaginal popsicles.

where she only works with animals that are already dead, right?

She doesn't euthanize animals for her research, which is a little like subethical commitment that I found kind of interesting.

So there was a gynecologist working in the early aughts on her patients taking consensual dental silicone molds of their vaginas to understand how, if possibly,

different lived experiences might change a person's anatomy and then what they were working with medically.

And her male colleagues told her that it was not medically relevant research.

And then Patricia Brennan now uses that technique 20 years later.

And I did this whole bit about the vaginal popsicles and Alana Glazer came on stage after me and she opened her bit being like, when Perrin was talking...

I wondered, am I conservative?

Because I'm like, so as we've discussed, I'm balls deep in these animal vaginas, like really in this world where, you know, when I started to learn how Darwin described female animals in Victorian England.

I was like, oh, no, yeah, that's what I was taught.

I would read Cosmo, and I was learning how to give the best blowjob of all time, but I wasn't supposed to exhibit any desire.

I wasn't supposed to actually experience pleasure.

I wasn't supposed to pursue anyone.

I was supposed to be demure.

I need it right.

It's like all of these exhausting configurations, I felt, were in a feedback loop with the prevailing way that we study both human females and female animals.

And

I think that this is all relevant right now because some of the researchers that I interviewed for this book are now having to submit grants to study non-male animals.

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