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LST FAVES: Real Teens, Fake Babies
Episode 103
Did your high school health teacher ever try to teach you the risks of sex by making you carry around an egg and pretend it was a baby? These days, t…
9 months ago
LST FAVES: The Parents' Guide to Affairs with Esther Perel
Episode 146
Most of us, at some point, will be touched by an affair—whether in our own relationships, or because one of our parents cheated, or because we are a …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
LST FAVES: W. Kamau Bell Asks His Mom About Sex
Episode 88
For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom, Janet, never had sex after she made him. But in his 40s, Kamau started to get th…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Secrets from the Vagina Whisperer
Episode 230
When Sara Reardon’s friends discovered she had answers for all their (and their moms’) weird vagina questions, they called her “The Vagina Whisperer.…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
The Permanent Birth Control Option Doctors Rarely Mention
Episode 229
Anna North spent years reporting on reproductive health — so she was surprised when her doctor suggested a birth control method she’d never heard of.…
10 months, 1 week ago
Xyla vs. the FAA
Episode 228
Xyla Foxlin started flying as a teenager. By her twenties, she was piloting her own plane and building another from scratch. But when a private healt…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Introducing: Add to Cart
This week, we’re bringing you something special: an episode from Add to Cart, a show we love hosted by Kulap Vilaysack and SuChin Pak. You might reme…
11 months ago
Ashley Parker on Raising Girls While Covering the White House
Episode 227
Ashley Parker has covered some of the biggest political events of our time — but for years she’s been obsessed with a very different type of story: b…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood
Episode 226
Ali Yarrow thought her childbirth experience would be hers to guide. Instead, she found it was guided by the American obstetrics system — a model tha…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
StoryCorps: The Birds, the Bees, and My Dad
Howie Gordon starred in over a hundred porn films in the 70s and 80s under the name Richard Pacheco. But his greatest role was as a father. At StoryC…
11 months, 4 weeks ago