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Dax, Monica & Lucy: Demographics, Age, and Why Older Men Use Wood

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With the extraction story complete, the trio reflect on the unmistakable pattern: every improvised-material foreign body case — wood, glass, non-commercial objects — has involved a patient over 65. Lucy attributes it partly to a lack of sex-positive education and embarrassment about visiting an adult store, and partly to the psychology of suppressed curiosity finally boiling over. Dax speculates many of these men have been ruminating on the idea for years and simply reach a tipping point. Monica floats the darker possibility: maybe their wives were partners in this for years and now they're alone. ^{[1] — Lucy "Every story in the episode converges on the same demographic: older men, often with wives away or deceased, finally acting on long-suppress…" 44:59 Play} The conversation is equal parts analytical and darkly comedic, with Dax wondering aloud whether George personally turned a banister piece on a lathe as a gift for himself.