Welcome to the Webs, a podcast about gender feminism and doing it.

Each week you get a pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can knock it off of

our minds.

And this week you have me, Shannon Paulis, a senior editor at Slate, covering science

and health.

And I'm speaking with Rachel Feldman, who is the executive editor of Popular Science,

and the author of the book, Finn There Done That, a rousing history of sex.

If you are feeling down about the world right now, Rachel's book offers an excellent escape.

It taught me all about why bats go down on each other.

A funny myth about Cleopatra's alleged masturbation habits.

Rachel also answers the question, why are even men?

And she takes us through a thought experiment about how maybe all animal life started out

very queer.

One keeping this conversation gets at is how limited our idea of quote unquote normal

sex is.

Blood, not just for cultural reasons, but also scientific ones.

I hope you'll stick with this.

We also have a special announcement about an upcoming Slate Live event.

If you want to get up to date on everything happening with the Supreme Court right now,

come to the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday, June 23rd.

Our colleagues from Slate will be unpacking all the news, and there'll be a special

slow burn teaping.

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