Wendy Zuckerman

We don't have so many Freudians, but we have influences in our own version of this.

Why did you sort of open with this?

It comes early in your book.

I can see you smiling as you're remembering.

What does this passage mean to you?

What did you kind of learn about what it was like to be a trained student of sex or a science researcher back then?

Not only difficult and it's such a taboo even more than today, but they were also quite creative, as you mentioned, with the

Yeah.

And that is super important because if you expect it to shoot out, so many people would think there was something wrong with them.

And in your book, you mentioned you have a favorite line because obviously you were reading Kinsey and Masters and Johnson.

What is your favorite line of Kinsey's from sexual behavior in the human female, I think?

So one of the big questions you tackle in this book is female orgasm, is sort of this mystery of why –

females orgasm at all.

Why, for those who've never really thought about it, why is this a mystery?

But to answer this question and really get into the deep mysteries of female orgasm across the animal kingdom, you went to Denmark to meet some pigs.

Can you tell me about this adventure?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Tell me, how did you feel when you got that invite as well?

So they had found that, right, that if you sexually stimulate a female pig or so while artificially inseminating her, it leads to a 6% improvement in fertility.