The Longest Shortest Time

EPISODE #251: Managing Your Perimenopausal Rage

Feeling enraged lately? Dr. Kameelah Phillips gives us the facts about perimenopausal mood swings — and gets personal about her own. (Red lipstick while listening is not mandatory, but highly encouraged!)

EPISODE #249: Painful Sex and Elusive Orgasms in Perimenopause

If you’ve given birth, or you’re entering menopause, or you simply have a vagina… chances are, at some point, you’ve had painful or uncomfortable sex. Today, Dr. Lauren Streicher, OBGYN and menopause expert, gives us the inside info on sex and perimenopause.

EPISODE #248: When the World Pushes You to Have a Baby (Or Two)

A lot of us wrestle with whether to start a family, or to grow the one we have. Today, Helena de Groot shares her own kid ambivalence — and the messy, intimate, confusing process of getting her husband to believe her wishes around whether or not to become a mom.

EPISODE #246: WTF Is Perimenopause?

Hot flashes! Weight gain! Headaches! Rage! If these symptoms sound familiar, you may be in perimenopause. But who among us actually knows what perimenopause is? Menopause specialists Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su and Dr. Amy Voedisch offer an informative and irreverent primer.

EPISODE #243: Birth Control Troubles and Vibrator Triumphs

As the daughter of an OBGYN, Danielle Bezalel learned all about vaginas — but pleasure wasn’t part of the conversation. Now she’s on a mission to help people prioritize pleasure.

EPISODE #242: Actually, Sir, That’s Not How You Put on a Condom

Zaraia Fabunmi became a sex educator and a doula as a teenager. Today she shares how she’s used that training to help her peers — and, at times, her teachers — plus the fascinating reproductive health research she did in India.  

EPISODE #239: Breasts

When Jean Hannah Edelstein went to college, she realized she had great breasts. Like, the kind that could win a wet T-shirt contest. But they also made her a target for harassment. Things got even more complicated when she started breastfeeding — and yet again, when she had to say goodbye to them.

EPISODE #237: You Know What: An LST Spinoff

Does more sex make you “wider”? Is it bad to swallow sperm? How do you clean a sex toy? In the pilot episode of our spinoff show, YOU KNOW WHAT, college students answer anonymous questions from teens and young adults — with help from sex educator Shafia Zaloom.