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A Very Vaginal Voyage with Rachel Gross
· 39 min · Episode 233 · Explicit
Episode A Very Vaginal Voyage with Rachel Gross
Join us for a deep (and delightfully nerdy) dive into the misunderstood world of vaginas, where we’ll learn about orgasm-chasing royalty, clitoral wingspans, vagina lollipops, wandering wombs — and the research on female anatomy we still desperately need. Science writer Rachel Gross is our fearless guide.
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Recommendations from the archive
#27 Rewriting Your Birth Story
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Writing by Rachel
• Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage (using this book link supports our show!)
• Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It? (NYT)
• Women in Menopause Are Getting the Short Shrift (The Atlantic)
• What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood? (The New Yorker)
• Body Language (NYT series on the history of medical language)
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More on the clitoris & friends
• The Clitoris, Uncovered (video by Rachel for Scientific American)
• Cliteracy Reel (3D depictions by Sophia Wallace)
• SEX-ED+ (company that makes silicone molds of clitorises and vulvas for educational purposes)
• Tight Lipped (grassroots movement by and for people with chronic vulvovaginal and pelvic pain)
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Links in the notes 12
- https://bookshop.org/a/111927/9781324050537
- https://nytimes.com/2022/10/17/health/clitoris-sex-doctors-surgery.html
- https://theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/04/menopause-transgender-care-estrogen-testosterone/678095/?taid=662a1107029dc600017ab86d
- https://newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/what-can-we-learn-from-menstrual-blood
- https://rachelegross.com/body-language
- https://scientificamerican.com/article/the-clitoris-uncovered-an-intimate-history/
- https://sophiawallace.art/cliteracyreel
- https://positivesexed.org/en/clitoris-diagram/
- https://tightlipped.org
- https://longestshortesttime.supportingcast.fm
- https://instagram.com/longestshortesttime/
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