Straight talking, with Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Fewer and fewer woman now identify as straight. Why? Well that's what Phoebe Maltz Bovy's new book The Last Straight Woman sets out to discover. She chats to Hannah about how trends, empathy for LGBT people, a rejection of gender roles, bad PR for men and porn may all be playing their part. You can buy The Last Straight Woman here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-last-straight-woman/phoebe-maltz-bovy/9780771013027 You can join the Standard Issue members club here: Standard Issue Podcast | creating a magazine for ears, by women for women | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Standard issue for all women.
0:02.6	Hello, Hannah here to welcome you to Tuesday's podcast. Welcome.
0:07.8	More on the contents of this podcast soon.
0:10.6	I'm just going to tell you a bit about what else is coming this week.
0:14.4	Tomorrow, in Rated or Dated, we're going to be watching 1991's Hudson Hawk.
0:20.4	Wowzers. And on Thursday, Jen and I will be taking a look
0:24.4	at the week's news in The Bush Telegraph. And finally, on Friday, Jen chats to writers and
0:30.7	theatre makers, Anushka Warden and Rebecca Lenkiewicz about all the rage, a theatrical response to the Epstein files.
0:39.9	And so to today, in which I am talking to journalist and author Phoebe Maltzbovi,
0:45.3	about her new non-fiction book, The Last Straight Woman, in which she looks at the recent
0:50.7	phenomena of fewer and fewer women identifying as heterosexual to find out why that is.
0:57.7	And the answers are many and very interesting.
1:01.5	There's a link to buy the book in the show notes and it's a recommend from me.
1:04.8	It's also available on Audible, which no surprise is how I consumed it.
1:10.0	As ever, members of the Standard Issue supporters club
1:12.4	will be hearing more of the interview,
1:14.8	whereas those of you listening on the free feed
1:16.9	will just get me interrupting to call time.
1:19.8	If you'd like to belong to that first group of people,
1:22.4	click on the link in the show notes to find out more.
1:27.1	Welcome to the Standard Issue podcast, Phoebe Maltz by the Vee.
1:30.9	Thank you so much for having me. Here I am in Canada.
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