Jo Firestone: A Sex Education
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2016
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When comedian Jo Firestone goes to college, she starts to worry she has an STD -- even though she's never had sex.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt huge, but I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ...theid... Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:32.4 | This week's stories from Joe Firestone, it was recorded in April 2016 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:38.0 | Sex is very dangerous. |
| 0:53.0 | Now I will prove it. Sex is very dangerous. |
| 0:58.0 | Now I, thanks, now I will prove it. Okay, so, so, I went to college when I was 18. |
| 1:09.0 | And, you know, I was what you call a late bloomer it's still about |
| 1:15.2 | to happen and and I was a very you know you know when you're a late bloomer and you think it's any |
| 1:21.7 | day now and it really I mean you really should look in long term but you know you think it's going to be any day now. |
| 1:29.0 | You get excited, you know. |
| 1:30.5 | And I was kind of a late bloomer, as I said. |
| 1:33.1 | And I really thought that college was going to be the big time, you know, the big sexy time. |
| 1:42.8 | And like I thought, I thought that like once, you know, I was, to tell you the truth, |
| 1:48.3 | I wore a back brace for most of my teenage years. |
| 1:51.1 | And when I ripped that off, you know, I was rearing to go. |
| 1:55.0 | And I didn't really understand what sex was or what was involved in getting to that situation, |
| 2:03.6 | but I knew that I thought that this was my time. |
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