“From what girls say and sex-ed class and everything, I always thought it would feel better than that,” said Warden, her outward facing bellybutton still raw. “But I guess everyone’s body responds differently to that kind of thing.”

“I’ve learned a few tricks in my time, you know, like clockwise-clockwise-counterclockwise, or side-to-side then up-and-down,” said Maloney, who fingered the healed-over nub of Warden’s cut fetal feeding tube for close to a quarter of an hour. “I think she was really into it.”

“How could she not be?” he added.