The Vagina Voyages

Unexplainable

Vox

Science, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Join our friends at The Longest Shortest Time for a deep dive into the misunderstood world of vaginas. We’ll learn about orgasm-chasing royalty, clitoral wingspans, vagina lollipops, wandering wombs, and why we still know so little about the anatomy of half the people on Earth. Guests: Hillary Frank, host, ⁠The Longest Shortest Time⁠; Rachel E. Gross, ⁠science writer⁠ For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And please email us! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠unexplainable@vox.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/members⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.5	through the female lens.
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0:41.3	but more importantly, when they reconstruct them, they tend to remember themselves more positively.
0:46.3	And then you construct a narrative out of it.
0:48.3	Maybe that narrative is that our people are great.
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1:01.4	New episodes every Monday.
1:04.9	This is Unexplainable. I'm Julie Longoria.
1:08.7	Today, we have an episode from our friends at the podcast, The Longest, Shortest Time.
1:14.3	I've been a longtime listener of the show.
1:16.9	Host Hillary Frank tells fascinating and heartbreaking stories about parenthood and reproductive
1:22.5	health, but you definitely don't need to be a parent to listen.
1:26.1	In the episode, we'll share with you today,
1:28.6	Hillary talks to science writer Rachel Gross about vaginas. Scientists know shockingly little
1:36.2	about this part of the body. So Rachel went on a mission to find out why. Here's the host,
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