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I'm Manouche Zamorodi. On the show today, the biology of sex. And just a quick note,

we're talking about our physiology, our physical bodies. So if you're a kid, it might be good to

listen to this one with a grown-up. Some of the things we talk about could be a little confusing.

Okay, before we get into everything, can you just describe where you grew up?

Because it was a pretty traditional and conservative kind of environment, right?

Yeah, I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. I wasn't Mormon, but I grew up surrounded by

the Mormon culture, I guess. This is artist and activist Emily Quinn. In that culture,

women are expected to get married, have kids. Like, it feels like you're groomed from a very

early age for motherhood. And they equate motherhood to womanhood and vice versa.

And I kind of grew up surrounded by this idea that if I wasn't able to do that,

then I wasn't really worth much as a woman. And so when you were still pretty young,

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