Periods and Wanking in Space with Lauren Church

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

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Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode, Hannah is joined by Lauren Church, who is working on a Masters in Space Physiology at King’s College London. Lauren discusses sex and women’s health in space, and also what we do and don’t know about how being in space might affect women’s brains and bodies differently to men’s. She and Hannah talk about periods in space, and what astronauts do to avoid them. Finally, Hannah and Lauren discuss the crucial topic: has anyone ever wanked in space??

MORE ABOUT LAUREN CHURCH
Lauren Church is working on a Masters in Space Physiology at King’s College London.
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/LaurenCSpace/
- Research Team Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paraboladies/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurencspace
- TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/4og8V_PgOSE

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0:20.0	Have any astronauts come out and said, yeah, I had a wank in space?
0:23.6	Not that I know of, but again, like, well, NASA is generally pretty like, we keep things very professional, like your role models for kids and whatever, so maybe don't talk about it.
0:35.6	I want to know, though though I've met quite a few
0:38.9	astronauts in my life and I might I don't know am I brave enough to ask one of them
0:42.9	welcome to doing it with me Hannah Witten where we talk all things sex relationships dating
0:53.1	and our bodies.
0:58.4	Hi everyone, welcome back to doing it. We are still in lockdown and I'm still coming at you
1:05.1	with some remote recordings of the podcast and just some interesting conversations with people. And today is no
1:15.0	different. So this episode is all about space. And my guest, Lauren, got in touch with me
1:22.0	recently telling me about her masters in space physiology at King's College London and giving me loads of
1:30.2	really great information and little nuggets about women in space and women's health and what we do
1:39.0	know and what we don't know about how being in space may affect women's bodies and brains differently to men's.
1:47.0	And I was instantly fascinated by this and so grateful to be able to chat with Lauren in this
1:53.8	podcast episode about sex and space, basically. We talk about having periods in space, what astronauts do to make sure they don't have periods
2:06.0	in space, what would happen if they did, has anyone ever had sex in space?
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