The Longest Shortest Time

A Very Vaginal Voyage with Rachel Gross

39 min • 6 augusti 2025

Join us for a deep (and delightfully nerdy) dive into the misunderstood world of vaginas, where we’ll learn about orgasm-chasing royalty, clitoral wingspans, vagina lollipops, wandering wombs — and the research on female anatomy we still desperately need. Science writer Rachel Gross is our fearless guide.

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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage (using this book link supports our show!)

Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It? (NYT)

Women in Menopause Are Getting the Short Shrift (The Atlantic)

What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood? (The New Yorker)

Body Language (NYT series on the history of medical language)

More on the clitoris & friends

The Clitoris, Uncovered (video by Rachel for Scientific American)

Cliteracy Reel (3D depictions by Sophia Wallace)

SEX-ED+ (company that makes silicone molds of clitorises and vulvas for educational purposes)

Tight Lipped (grassroots movement by and for people with chronic vulvovaginal and pelvic pain)

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