Women's Health Started With Poo And Slavery

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Anarcha Westcott (real name Annacay Jackson) was a 13-year-old slave instrumental in the creation of the medical field of gynecology. Instrumental… because she was the instrument. Dr. J. Marion Sims of Alabama performed 30 experimental surgeries on her — without anesthesia — in order to repair her horrific fistulas after a stillbirth at 13 years old. And the surgeries worked. Thanks to Annacay enduring the nightmare that was 1840s medicine, women’s health was advanced tremendously. But holy sh*t did she have to endure.Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at Fitbod.me/SOFTCOREHead to FACTORMEALS.com/softcore50 and use code softcore50 to get 50% off your first box plus 20% off your next month.Rob Foxhttps://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regesterhttps://www.instagram.com/danregester/ https://twitter.com/dan_regester Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are now listening to Softcore History.
0:15.7	What is up? Welcome back to SoftCore History. I am your host for the week, Rob Fox, joined as always by Dan
0:22.9	Regester. Always a pleasure to be on your show, Rob. Yeah, thank you for showing up to my studio
0:29.4	and doing this show. It looks really professional. Who did this? I hired some people. Yeah.
0:35.8	You know, I didn't want to leave it to you to do it. So I bought, I paid some people. You can. I don't have the time. No. Or the, or the, yeah, it just doesn't work. Or the skill. That little, that little chuckle was Gabby Montemeyore back on the show. Back again.
0:54.7	Fan favorite.
0:55.8	Third studio I've done this one in, I think.
0:57.9	Yeah.
0:58.2	At least.
0:59.4	Yeah.
1:00.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:00.6	Because I definitely did the spare bedroom.
1:03.1	You did the spare bedroom.
1:05.2	You've done this apartment.
1:06.9	Did you ever come to Old Torf?
1:07.9	So this would be your fourth.
1:09.3	I didn't come to Old Torf.
1:10.4	Okay.
1:11.7	But I knew of it. She was aware of Old Torff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We didn't have a ton of guests on the Old Torf because we had Jake. We had fewer guests when Jake was here. But Jake is dead after. Are you all going to do a reunion episode? We are. Good. Well, don't spoil it for the people at home. Maybe.
1:30.8	Maybe not. Are you all going to do a reunion episode? We are. Good. Well, don't spoil it for the people at home.
1:29.8	Maybe.
1:45.5	Maybe not. Depends on if Jake. I want to text Jake who fucked up shit about the taxes just to fuck with him. Just to like throw a wrench in his Monday. Like, hey man. Does he still care? There's no way. Well, he'll care if I'm like, hey, man, they just kept you on the LLC for the whole year.
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