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Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, April 5th.

This is the Corgasm edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, editor at Double X.

I am in the DC studio, and I am joined in the New York studio by Noreen Malone, a writer for New York magazine online. Hi, Noreen.

Hey, Hannah.

And for the first time ever, Laura Anderson, who's an editorial assistant at Slate, who's

going to join us on the podcast today. Hi, Laura.

Hi, Hannah.

Today we're going to talk about three topics. The first is sibling rivalry, and new research

shows how sibling rivalry affects us for a long time. The second is a forum in the Wall Street Journal about the sexual revolution and our undecided feelings about it. And the third is whether exercise causes orgasm. It's really hard for me to say that seriously. Like I read the studies and everything and I'm trying to be a serious person about that, but it's actually hard to say that seriously. Let's start with sibling rivalry. Before we get into the serious conversation, just so we're all kind of lay our cards down, do you guys have siblings? I have lots of siblings. I know you have lots of siblings. I just met your lovely sister. I have five siblings, three sisters and two brothers. And how about you, Laura? I have one sister who is one and a half years older than I am. So we're close in age. Which is important for rivalry. Right. Apparently, if we're to believe this study, then that, like, is one of the main factors leading to rivalry. But I guess we'll get to that. I have a fascination with sister relationships. I don't have a sister. I have lots of close friends who have

only girls. My brother has only daughters. Sort of in my life, there are tons and tons of all

girl families. And it does strike me, I have to say, from a parent's perspective, it's unbelievably

fraught. The Wall Street Journal story that we are partly basing this conversation on started with

this lifelong rivalry between these two

sisters. I mean, they had stories deep into their childhood and on through their adult lives of

just serious schadenfreude, you know? I love this quote. I mean, it's a terrible quote. This woman

who's a 38-year-old woman, she's younger by 13 months, she goes, my kids play more instruments.

So I am winning in piano.

But she won the skinny Olympics. And it's just, it's such a sister statement. It really is.

I totally don't. I feel like what a bitch. Like I totally don't like relate to that as like a regular human feeling to have. But I'm wrong. Right. Well, um, hmm. So she's definitely like, I think for most people, that sort of thing dissipates as you get older. Uh-huh. But I think there's a certain way that sisters in particular measure up against each other constantly physically because you're like, okay, we're working with the same gene pool set, like what's she doing that I'm not, you know? Right. But sure, that sister relationship struck me as a little terrifying. They seemed more competitive. All right. So let me ask you like a touchy question, Noreen. And then Laura, I'll ask you the same thing. Like, your sister's a journalist, right? The sister that I met as a journalist. Are you guys competitive? I mean, you quoted her in the New York magazine cover. Like like it's clear you guys as sort of similar

sensibilities you know you're operating in a similar world are you guys competitive supportive

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