Is Ovulation Making You Horny Or Is It Fascist To Think So?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The girlies are going feral across the internet - one one hand, Lorde is calling ovulation the best drug she’s ever taken. On the other, TikTok’s reveal during ovulation many of us get uncontrollably horny. But is it true? Do our hormones control our libidos and cognition or do we have more free will than that? TikTok wellness huns are using pseudoscience to back up their claims, while Twitter feminists take to their feeds to fight back against the dehumanising nature of having our personalities attributed to hormone cycles.
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina pick apart the inherent bio-essentialism of ovulation discourse, the alt right's push for focusing on fertility and how these conversations feel like a step back for women.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm |
| 0:04.9 | I'm My Oni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester, and this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist |
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| 0:36.6 | Do you have any reviews I all need? |
| 0:38.6 | For the sake. |
| 0:40.1 | You put another fake review in. |
| 0:43.4 | Cherry Pine, 1994. |
| 0:46.4 | That's your dog. |
| 0:48.3 | That wasn't me though. |
| 0:49.9 | Well, it obviously was someone. |
| 0:51.1 | It was you. |
| 0:52.4 | It was and. |
| 0:53.3 | I wouldn't put my head on straight. |
| 1:11.4 | Love this podcast, five stars. But listening for a while and these girls help me keep my head on straight. Thank you. By Cherry Pie 994, which is Gina's Jackawawa. But there's no 994 in my house. Do you understand? I understand. So that's not me. If you said this review, let us know. I think this is a coincidence. |
| 1:12.6 | I don't think it's a coincidence. |
| 1:13.6 | I think it's your dog. |
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