“Physiology?” repeated the tall man. “You mean, ah…” He flashed a brief smile. “Masters and Johnson type of research?”
Rachel licked her lips. “Only more so,” she confirmed quietly.
“My,” Ngana replied, blinking into his mineral water.
“Those studies are ancient now,” asserted the girl, a little defensively. “What’s needed is new, much more careful and more modern research. To quantify the response of the subject to taboo versus non-taboo stimuli, for example—”
“No, no,” John hastened to assure her, “I see—really. If by accident I expressed any, um, diffidence, I suppose it was funding I was thinking of.” He shrugged embarrassedly. “You know how people are! What does Rick think of these ideas? For this type of, uh, research, does he think you will be able to acquire the funding your
