Private Parts: Stories about the science of intimate areas
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week we present two stories from people who had disastrous moments with their own genitals.
Part 1: Lonely after her move to New York City, Adrien Behn finds a friend in her copper IUD.
Part 2: While recovering from prostate cancer surgery, Dana Strout finds a creative solution to his incontinence.
Adrien Behnis a triple threat storyteller: she is a podcaster, writer, and live story performer. She has been featured in the New York Times and has self-produced her first podcast, Strangers Abroad, a narrative travel podcast. You can find her performing around the city or in her kitchen making pies.
Dana Strout is a Maine native, with roots in this state going back over 300 years. He is a practicing attorney in the Camden/Rockport area, specializing in construction law. He is a photographer working in 19th and early 20th century processes, and was an on air programmer for many years on WERU Community Radio. He currently lives with his wife Dorie and two cats in Camden, and enjoys gymnastics, a warped sense of humor and a good story.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I feel. |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm your host, Aaron Barker, and this week we're presenting stories about one of everyone's favorite topics, private parts. |
| 0:36.9 | As you may know, the very first story I told it |
| 0:39.6 | Story Clyder back in 2011 was about my private part. And ever since, I've had a deep affinity |
| 0:45.7 | for saying the word vagina on stage. So I'm very excited to introduce today's stories. |
| 0:51.8 | Our first story today is from Adrian Bain. It was recorded in December |
| 0:55.5 | 2018 at Caviot in New York City. The theme that night was, it's all in your head. |
| 1:06.0 | Okay, so has this question is for the uterus owners in the room. How many of you have felt so lonely that you thought your |
| 1:15.5 | copyright you do is your best friend? Anybody else? Oh, am I alone in that one too? Okay. So I moved to New York in |
| 1:24.7 | 2015 and I was so lonely, hence that. |
| 1:30.2 | So I moved here because I had a small group of friends, |
| 1:33.3 | but I didn't really know what I was doing in life. |
| 1:35.1 | I was dabbling with this podcast. |
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