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Episode Notes
S2E1:
"Am I a sexual, or
do I have a sexual
Dysfunction?"
January 2023
Historical Sources:
Irvine, Janice M. Disorders of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Modern American Sexology. Rev. and Expanded ed. (Temple University Press, 2005).
Paris, Leslie. “The Sexual Clock: Middle-Aged American Women and Sexual Vitality in the 1960s and 1970s.” Journal of Social History 53, no. 4 (2020): 922–38
Waters, Michael. “Finding Asexuality in the Archives,” Slate.com, March 6, 2020.
News and General Information:
2020 Ace Community Survey: https://acecommunitysurvey.org/
Altman, Anna. “Why Asexuals Don’t Want to be Invisible Anymore,” New York Times, 9/24/2014.
Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN)
Chen, Angela. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Beacon Press, 2020).
Medical / Scientific Sources:
Bogaert, Anthony F. “Asexuality; Prevalence and Associated Factors in a National Probability Sample,” Journal of Sex Research (Aug. 2004)
Bogaert. “Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Asexuality,” Review of General Psychology 10, no. 3 (Sept. 2006): 241-50.
Brotto LA, Yule MA, Gorzalka BB. Asexuality: an extreme variant of sexual desire disorder? J Sex Med. 2015 Mar;12(3):646-60. doi: 10.1111/jsm.12806. Epub 2014 Dec 24. PMID: 25545124.
Jones C, Hayter M, Jomeen J. Understanding asexual identity as a means to facilitate culturally competent care: A systematic literature review. J Clin Nurs. 2017 Dec;26(23-24):3811-3831. doi: 10.1111/jocn.13862. Epub 2017 Jun 28. PMID: 28430404.
S2E2:
"Am I intersex?"
With Elizabeth Reis
February 2023
Books:
Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (John Hopkins Univ. Press, updated edition 2021)
Georgiann Davis, Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis (NYU Press, 2015)
Katrina Karkazis, Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience (Duke Univ. Press, 2008)
Hida Viliora, Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hatchette Books, 2017)
Kimberly Zieselman, XOXY: A Memoir (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020)
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, 2nd ed.
Stephanie Lohman and Eric Lohman, Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018)
Sharon Preves, Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003)
Resources:
Hans Lindahl (hanslindahl.com)
Pidgeon Pagonis (http://pid.ge/)
Sean Saifa Wall on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dJduGC3HyQ&t=127s and (https://www.seansaifa.com/)
S2E3:
"what's that
smell..."
March 2023
Medical References
Egan ME, Lipsky MS. Diagnosis of vaginitis. Am Fam Physician. 2000 Sep 1;62(5):1095-104. PMID: 10997533.
del Mármol, J., Yedlin, M.A. & Ruta, V. The structural basis of odorant recognition in insect olfactory receptors. Nature 597, 126–131 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03794-8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snJnO6OpjCs
Dr. Jen Gunter’s blog https://vajenda.substack.com/
Historical References
Farmer, Ashley D. Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Kettler, Andrew. “Race, Nose, Truth: Dystopian Odours of the Other in American Antebellum Consciousness.” Patterns of Prejudice 55, no. 1 (2021): 1–24. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2021.1898811
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company. [Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and other remedies]. [Ephemera]. 11779.F. Available through: Adam Matthew, Marlborough. Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900, http://www.popularmedicine.amdigital.co.uk.udel.idm.oclc.org/Documents/Details/PM_11779_F_7 [Accessed January 31, 2023]. C. 1876
Reinarz, Jonathan. Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell. Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
S2E4:
"can anyone tell
if i'm a virgin?"
april 2023
Huge shout out to Mercury Stardust (https://mercurystardust.com/merctree), Jory (@alluringskull), and Point of Pride (https://www.pointofpride.org/about) who raised over $2 MILLION during a 30hr live stream / Tik-Tok-A-Thon to support gender-affirming care at the end of March!
Historical Sources
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Blank, Hanne. Virgin: The Untouched History. Bloomsbury Press, 2007.
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Moslener, Sara. Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Reinarz, Jonathan. Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell. University of Illinois Press, 2014. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt7zw5zg.
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Rodriguez, Sara. "Restoring 'Virginal Conditions' and Reinstating the 'Normal': Episiotomy in 1920," in Heterosexual Histories, Rebecca Davis and Michele Mitchell, eds. (New York University Press, 2021), 303-330.
Medical References
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Rosa M. Laterza, Mario De Gennaro, Andrea Tubaro, Heinz Koelbl. Female pelvic congenital malformations. Part I: embryology, anatomy and surgical treatment. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Volume 159, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-34,
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Scarleteen https://www.scarleteen.com/
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Jen Gunter’s Twitter thread about hymens/virginity: https://twitter.com/DrJenGunter/status/1192143613947457537?s=20
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Moussaoui, D., Abdulcadir, J. and Yaron, M. (2022), Hymen and virginity: What every paediatrician should know. J Paediatr Child Health, 58: 382-387. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1111/jpc.15887
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https://www.who.int/news/item/17-10-2018-united-nations-agencies-call-for-ban-on-virginity-testing
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Olson RM, García-Moreno C. Virginity testing: a systematic review. Reprod Health. 2017 May 18;14(1):61. doi: 10.1186/s12978-017-0319-0. PMID: 28521813; PMCID: PMC5437416.
Episode Notes
Episode One:
"Are you
sexually active?"
June 2022
Historical Sources:
Drucker, Donna J. The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan. Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2000.
Gebhard, Paul H, Alan B Johnson, Alfred C Kinsey, and Institute for Sex Research. The Kinsey Data: Marginal Tabulations
of the 1938-1963 Interviews Conducted by the Institute for Sex Research. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Kinsey, Alfred C, Wardell B Pomeroy, and Clyde E Martin. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Bloomington, Ind.:
Indiana University Press, 1998 [1948].
Kinsey, Alfred C, and Institute for Sex Research. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana
University Press, 1998 [1953].
Meystre-Agustoni, G. Talking about sexuality with the physician: are patients receiving what they wish? Swiss Med Wkly.
2011;141:w13178
Stoeckle JD, Billings JA. A history of history-taking: the medical interview. J Gen Intern Med. 1987;2:119–27.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK458/
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/about/history/history-of-jhh/founding-physicians.html
https://www.lgbtqiahealtheducation.org/resources/
Episode Two:
"How do I know
if I'm trans?"
July 2022
Health related links:
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Dara Hoffman Fox (LPC and Gender Therapist) https://darahoffmanfox.com/
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Meystre-Agustoni, G. Talking about sexuality with the physician: are patients receiving what they wish? Swiss Med Wkly. 2011;141:w13178
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2015 US Trans Survey reports: https://www.ustranssurvey.org/reports
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2022 US Trans Survey: https://www.ustranssurvey.org/
Historical sources:
Peter Boag, Re-Dressing the America’s Frontier Past (University of California Press, 2011)
Brittany Cooper, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, 2017)
Scott Larson, “‘Indescribable Being’: Theological Performances of Genderlessness in the Society of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776–1819.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12, no. 3 (2014): 576–600.
https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2014.0020.
Jen Manion, Female Husbands: A Trans History (Cambridge, 2020)
Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002)
Rosalind Rosenberg, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Emily Skimore, True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (NYU Press, 2017)
Susan Stryker, Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (Basic Books, 2017)
Episode Three:
"How do I know
if I'm trans?"
Part 2
August 2022
Health related links:
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Ainsworth, C. Sex redefined. Nature 518, 288–291 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/518288a
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APA’s statement on gender dysphoria in the DSM: https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Psychiatrists/Practice/DSM/APA_DSM-5-Gender-Dysphoria.pdf
Historical sources:
Meyerowitz, Joanne J. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Stryker, Susan. Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution. New York: Seal Press, 2017.
Episode four:
"can i get
pregnant if..."
September 2022
Health related links:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7447942.stm
http://www.drmomma.org/2008/06/human-ovulation-clearly-photographed.html
Historical sources:
Brodie, Janet Farrell. Contraception and Abortion in 19th-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Cobb, M. “An Amazing 10 Years: The Discovery of Egg and Sperm in the 17th Century.” Reproduction in Domestic
Animals 47, no. 4: 2–6. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0531.2012.02105.
Horowitz, Maryanne Cline. “The ‘Science’ of Embryology Before the Discovery of the Ovum.” In Connecting Spheres:
European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present, edited by
Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, 2nd ed., 104–12. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Martin, Emily. “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female
Roles.” Signs 16, no. 3 (1991): 485–501.
Episode five:
"is the turkey baster
thing real ..."
October 2022
Episode five:
"is the turkey baster
thing real ..."
October 2022
Health related links:
The Longest Shortest Time Episode 153:
https://longestshortesttime.com/episode-153-sperm-shopping-by-color/
Lambda Legal:
https://www.lambdalegal.org/states-regions/in-your-state?gclid=CJDu1q-55dICFUO5wAodlCEB3w
Williams Institute: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Same-Sex-Parents-Jul-2018.pdf
Family Equality (2019) LGBTQ Family Building Survey. https://www.familyequality.org/fbs
Carone, N., Gartrell, N.K., Rothblum, E.D., Koh, A.S., & Bos, H.M.W. (2021) The Stability of Psychological Adjustment Among Donor-conceived Offspring in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study from Childhood to Adulthood: Differences by Donor Type, Fertility and Sterility, 115(5), 1302–1311.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2020.12.012
National Survey of Children’s Health:
https://www.childhealthdata.org/learn-about-the-nsch/archive-prior-year-data-documents-and
Stephanie Berman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0NNN-5SSbM
“Turkey-Baster Baby”: https://open.spotify.com/track/1GMK8sajViuODG58vfk3uh
Historical sources:
Daniels, Cynthia R, and Janet Golden. "Procreative Compounds: Popular Eugenics, Artificial Insemination and
the Rise of the American Sperm Banking Industry." Journal of Social History 38, no. 1 (2004): 5-27.
May, Elaine Tyler. Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness. New York:
BasicBooks, 1995.
“‘Proxy Baby,” News- week 55 (May 30, 1960): 80–81.
Richards, Martin. “Artificial Insemination and Eugenics: Celibate Motherhood, Eutelegenesis and Germinal
Choice.”Studies in History & Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences 39, no. 2 (June 2008): 211–21.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2008.03.005.
Tallon-Hicks, Yana. “Starter Kit: Baby-making just got intimate.” Deneuve: the Lesbian Magazine (April 2013), 15.
“Test-Tube Test Case.” Time 64 (December 27, 1954): 52.
“Use of artificial insemination increasing” (AP), The News Tribune (Tacoma, Was.), December 5, 1978, p. 11.
Episode six:
"this is because i''m
FAT, RIGHT?"
December 2022
Health-Related Links:
7 Ways to Uproot Your Anti-Fat Bias by Aubrey Gordon
Tomiyama, A., Carr, D., Granberg, E. et al. How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms
health. BMC Med 16, 123 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5
Phelan SM, Burgess DJ, Puhl RM, et al. The adverse effect of weight stigma on the well-being of medical
students with overweight or obesity: findings from a national survey. J Gen Intern Med. 2015;30(9):1251–8.
First Do No Harm: Stories of fat prejudice in healthcare
When Doctors Body Shame Their Patients – It’s a fricking Cosmo article, but the anecdotes are powerful.
Haqq AM, Kebbe M, Tan Q, Manco M, Salas XR. Complexity and Stigma of Pediatric Obesity. Child Obes. 2021
Jun;17(4):229-240. doi: 10.1089/chi.2021.0003. Epub 2021 Mar 29. PMID: 33780639; PMCID: PMC8147499.
Incollingo Rodriguez, A.C., Smieszek, S.M., Nippert, K.E. et al. Pregnant and postpartum women’s experiences of
weight stigma in healthcare. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 20, 499 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020
Ives GC, Fein LA, Finch L, Sluiter EC, Lane M, Kuzon WM, Salgado CJ. Evaluation of BMI as a Risk Factor for
Complications following Gender-affirming Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2019
Mar 13;7(3):e2097. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000002097. PMID: 31044103; PMCID: PMC6467628.
https://naafa.org/community-voices/fat-self-care
Maintenance Phase Podcast Episode on the BMI: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1411126?client_source=large_player&iframe=true&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F1411126%2Fpodcast%2Fembed#
Historical Sources:
Altman, Claire E., Jennifer Van Hook, and Jonathan Gonzalez. “Becoming Overweight without Gaining a Pound:
Weight Evaluations and the Social Integration of Mexicans in the United States.” International Migration
Review 51, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 3–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12220.
Parr, Jessica M. “Obesity and the Emergence of Mutual Aid Groups for Weight Loss in the Post-War United
States.” Social History of Medicine 27, no. 4 (2014): 768–88. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hku020.
Rasmussen, Nicolas. “Downsizing Obesity: On Ancel Keys, the Origins of BMI, and the Neglect of Excess Weight
as a Health Hazard in the United States from the 1950s to 1970s.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral
Sciences 55, no. 4 (October 2019): 299–318. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21991.
Strings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. New York: New York University Press,
2019.
Additional Resources:
Thebodyisnotanapology.com
https://www.iamannachapman.com/fat-selfcare-tips
https://asdah.org/health-at-every-size-haes-approach/
https://theadipositivityproject.zenfolio.com/about.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-to-do-about-fat-shaming-doctors_n_5ba9604ee4b0181540dfd54d