A Very Vaginal Voyage with Rachel Gross

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0	Hey there, longest, shortest time listener. Be honest. Do you like listening to stories about
0:08.7	parenthood and reproductive health? Do you like when they're bold and complicated and funny and
0:14.3	poignant all at the same time? Of course you do. That's why you listen to the show, and it's part of what makes you special.
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0:34.3	You get to suggest story ideas for future episodes. You get access to a whole other show
0:39.8	with super awesome college kids talking about sex, dating, and relationships. And you get to hang out
0:45.9	with me and reproductive health experts and past guests and ask them questions. Membership is just
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1:43.5	Rachel Gross has a vivid memory of sex ed in fourth grade.
1:48.3	Being in a dark room with all the other fourth grade girls and their moms learning about
1:54.4	periods.
1:55.4	And my mom was not there because she was like a doctor on call.
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