How to fashion realistic male genitalia with everyday household items.

Science Times rarely disappoints. This week's section does include a cute article about animals but I'd like to call your attention to another article "Building Organs Even the Prudish Can Handle."

Who are these prudes? Doctors! I always assumed that a prerequisite for joining the medical profession was a lack of squeamishness and an ability to not be embarrassed by examining a stranger's body. You've got a chicken you need gutted ASAP? Great! Five foot long guinea worm tangled in your intestines that needs to be threaded out through your thigh? Ooh, can you send me video footage? But a lump in your balls? Hold on, that's disgusting. I don't want to see that shit; put it back. Put it back! Disappointingly, even the old gal you thought was happy to squeeze your cervix, isn't.

Dr Carla Pugh wants to change all that. Rather, she was doctors to become better surgeons and diagnosticians but training them on lifelike simulators. She's invented life-like body parts (see the "vagina vault") out of inexpensive materials that can be found in the grocery store or, more rarely, local sex shop. Endlessly creative, "she has also constructed a scrotum using two wood balls linked by a rubber band (vas deferens) and suspended in an extra-large condom filled with oil and peanut butter."

I don't know about you, but I kind of feel like trying to make one at home...