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Doing It! with Hannah Witton

How To "Fix" Painful Sex with Fran Bushe

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8651 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, Hannah chats to playwright & comedian Fran Bushe about her show Ad Libido, which explored female sexual dysfunction. Fran shared the misconceptions around what we view as ‘normal’ sex and feeling inadequate when you can’t have it. They also talk about viewing the brain as an important sexual organ, and why we need to change the notion that ‘successful’ sex = penetrative sex. Finally, Hannah and Fran discuss sexual empowerment as a continuous process, and how we learn about ourselves and our bodies throughout our lives.

Fran: https://twitter.com/franbushe


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Transcript

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0:00.0

So sometimes I've been like, oh God, I haven't made a noise in ages.

0:03.0

Quick, make a noise and I'll be, ah, panic,

0:08.0

panic sex noise.

0:12.0

Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.

0:23.7

Hello, welcome back to doing it.

0:26.5

Before we get into this episode, I've got some very exciting news.

0:29.6

We've got our first live recording coming up.

0:32.7

It's going to be at Summer in the City, which is a YouTube festival in London on Saturday the 10th of August.

0:42.4

So if you're already going to be at Sitsy, then you can catch a live recording of doing it with

0:48.9

Melanie Murphy on the Saturday at 1pm. Or if you're interested in coming along, you can get

0:53.9

day tickets for the Saturday and 1pm or if you're interested in coming along you can get day tickets for

0:55.5

the Saturday and come and listen and hang out. But onto the matter at hand, this week's guest

1:02.9

is Fran Bush. She is a comedian and a writer. You might have seen posters for her show at

1:09.9

libido, which she performed at the Soho Theatre earlier this year, which is all about how to fix sex.

1:17.9

We talk a lot about her experience writing the show and the inspiration behind it of having painful sex and not enjoying sex and never really learning that sex could be pleasurable

1:30.5

for women. We tell stories such as using a lemon and honey throat sweet during oral sex and coming

1:37.7

in your sleep. And since recording this episode, Fran has announced that she is writing a book, writing a book all about

1:46.2

vaginas. And she is crowdsourcing a bunch of stories about people and their vaginas and their

1:52.3

vulvas. So if you have a vulva and you fancy sharing your stories with Fran to potentially

1:59.3

be included in her book, then we'll leave a link

2:02.8

in the show notes, which you can find at doing itpodcast.com.uk. Or just head over to Fran's

2:08.3

Twitter and the link will be there. But for now, you can listen to Fran sharing about her vulva,

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