LST FAVES: Real Teens, Fake Babies

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Did your high school health teacher ever try to teach you the risks of sex by making you carry around an egg and pretend it was a baby? These days, the pretending isn’t as much of a stretch. Lots of schools are opting to use robotic babies that cry throughout the day and night just like a real infant. In this episode, we follow two teenage girls over the course of 48 hours with the “babies,” and their conclusions surprise us! We also revisit the story after an eye-opening study in The Lancet that shed new light on our reporting. ⭐️ Versions of this episode originally aired on March 1, 2015 and November 16, 2016 and the story is a favorite from the LST archives. It’s also part of our ongoing Sex & Parenthood series. We’ve been airing a few episodes from the series over the next few weeks, while we gear up for our next batch of new episodes. You can find the full series here. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Hillary Frank. I am so excited to be making the show again after a five-year hiatus. And right now, I'm gearing up to bring you our next new batch of episodes coming in July. In the meantime, to tide you over, I'll be airing some of my favorite episodes from our ongoing sex and
0:21.4	parenthood series. You'll get some sex advice for parents. You'll hear teens caring for robotic
0:27.4	babies as part of their sex ed class. And you'll hear a grown man asking his mom about her
0:32.9	sex life back when he was a kid and she was single. These episodes are so much fun and you can find the
0:39.8	full series at our website, Longest Shortestime.com, and I'll also drop the link in the show notes.
0:46.8	I've relaunched the longest shortest time independently, and right now I'm still making the podcast
0:52.6	almost entirely by myself. In order for the show to be
0:56.6	sustainable, I'm going to need to hire some extra hands. And that is why I started a special club
1:02.7	for listeners like you. It's called LST Plus. And as a member, you get all kinds of cool stuff.
1:10.0	You get to be part of our community where you can bond with other listeners. You get to suggest story ideas for future episodes. You get access to a whole other show with super awesome college kids talking about sex, dating, and relationships. And we just started doing a new thing, video hangouts with me and a special guest.
1:29.0	The first one was an AMA with my amazing pelvic floor physical therapist.
1:34.1	Membership is just 50 bucks a year or seven bucks a month.
1:37.8	And if you want to give more, you can.
1:40.0	When you join, you're supporting edgy, heartfelt stories about parenthood and reproductive health,
1:46.0	and you are helping this show to simply exist.
1:49.6	Sign up is easy.
1:50.8	Just go to longest shortesttime.com slash club.
1:54.2	See you there.
1:59.5	There is so much talk about women's hormonal health, which is great.
2:04.0	But even though it's a bigger part of the conversation, most women are left even more confused
2:09.0	about what it means for them and what to do about it, which is not so great.
2:13.0	This confusion ends now.
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