Late Night Woman's Hour: Masturbation

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Laverne and guests discuss women and masturbation - is it still a taboo? Her guests this month are:

Emily Yates, accessibility consultant and sex educator with the charity Enhance the UK.

Irma Kurtz, who has been the agony aunt for Cosmopolitan Magazine since 1970.

Ky Hoyle, the founder and Managing Director of the Sh! Women's Erotic Emporium.

Stephanie Theobald, a writer whose most recent book Sex Drive is a memoir of her drive across America in search of her lost libido.

Producer: Luke Mulhall.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour.
0:01.7	Regular listeners will know that we pride ourselves on being unembarrassable on this program,
0:06.3	which is probably just as well, as tonight we're going to be crashing through taboos and brushing off the titters
0:11.0	as we tackle the subject of female masturbation.
0:13.7	Who's doing it? How often? Why is it still taboo? And is pleasure political?
0:18.8	Come on, come all as we investigate with my intrepid guests.
0:22.1	Kai Hoyle is the founder of Shhwim. investigate with my intrepid guests.
0:22.8	Kai Hoyle is the founder of Sh women's erotic emporium
0:26.2	which has been going strong since 1992 I believe Kai.
0:30.3	Presumably you've changed the batteries a couple of times.
0:32.0	Oh yes we've gone through many of rechargeable batteries.
0:35.0	Well, congratulations to you, 92.
0:38.0	I know, nearly 25 years old.
0:40.0	There's a whole generation of women who've grown up with shush and its influence
0:44.4	their whole sexuality has been kind of within your tenure well with with this
0:50.5	massive shift that's happened. Emily Yates runs workshops on sex for people with disabilities and works on the undressing disability
0:58.6	campaign.
0:59.6	Welcome to you, how are you?
1:00.6	Thank you very well, thank you very well.
1:02.3	Thanks for being here.
1:03.0	Cosmopolitan's first agony aunt Erma Kurtz has been helping readers since 1975.
1:08.0	Erma, how big a proportion of your post bag relates to sex do you think?
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