The Longest Shortest Time

EPISODE #187: MILF

In 1999, the movie American Pie taught us all a new acronym: MILF. It stands for “Mom I’d Like to Fuck.”

Now, 20 years later, MILF has gone mainstream. It’s been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, there’s now a TV show inspired by the term, and it’s a longtime reigning search term in adult entertainment.

Tune in for a conversation about the special ways women are sexually objectified after motherhood. Has the term MILF outlived its usefulness?

We’ll talk with adult film star Lisa Ann. In 2008, she became famous for her role in a Hustler parody of a certain woman in national politics.

Then Buzzfeed senior culture writer Anne Helen Peterson, author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, will explain why reclaiming MILF is a different challenge for feminism than the word “bitch.” Plus, we’ll hear from an anonymous guest who might be to blame for any of us knowing about MILF in the first place.