Update: Losing Your 'Virginity' at 43
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
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Summary
In this mailbag episode of How To!, we get an update from Elizabeth, the 43-year-old listener who contacted us for advice on her plan to have sex for the first time. Then, co-hosts Courtney Martin and Carvell Wallace get listeners' takes on our most talked-about episodes of the year—and the staff holds an impromptu idea meeting for upcoming episodes.
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| 0:59.3 | conditions apply. Hello and welcome to how to the show where listeners write to us with their |
| 1:06.3 | most personal questions and then we find the perfect person to give us advice. I'm Carvel Wallace. |
| 1:11.9 | And I'm Courtney Martin. It's funny, by the time we put an episode out, the team and I have |
| 1:16.7 | spent a considerable amount of time either with the listener or actively working on helping |
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