"I'm really not sure you having a sex ed lesson will meaningfully accelerate the reverse engineering of IUDs."

"We can skip it if you prefer, then?"

"I'm not - refusing to do it, if you want, just - your stated reason does not I think obviously apply."

"I think if you spend a large amount of time working on something, I don't want to have to avoid learning about the details of doing so? But possibly I can just...not avoid learning about the details. Without needing to learn things first."

Nod nod.

"Do you have a sense as to how long your research on this might take?"

"...uh, depends how many animals I can keep to experiment on. I'd do something smaller than dogs but if they're too small I'll have more manufacturing issues. Sheep'd be big enough I think but they only lamb once a year, right?"

"I'm not sure what that means?"

"...the thing I want to try requires making small objects out of copper, putting them inside of animals that are not wildly different from humans in size, and seeing if the animals still get pregnant. I think sheep can only get pregnant at one time of year, so using them would get results slower than using an animal that doesn't have that characteristic. Right now my best idea is dogs but I might be overlooking another medium-sized animal that would work."