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. … Recommendations from the archive #27 Rewriting Your Birth Story … 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) … 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) … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices