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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