The Longest Shortest Time

EPISODE #238: Shafia Zaloom’s Playful Approach to Sex Ed

Shafia Zaloom walks us through her innovative approach to teaching young people about healthy relationships, which includes games, music, and complicated scenarios based on real-life situations.

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.

Episode #233: A Very Vaginal Voyage with Rachel Gross

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.

EPISODE #224: Sex-Positive Books for Tweens and Teens (And Parents!)

Traci Thomas of The Stacks podcast joins us to suggest books that help tweens and teens navigate the complicated world of sex and relationships. We’ll cover fiction and nonfiction — plus a few picks to help spice up the sex lives of parents!

EPISODE #221: How to Not (Accidentally) Raise a Rapist

Consent education in school is mostly insufficient or non-existent — even when it’s required by state law. An organization called SafeBAE is trying to change that by training teens to teach each other about sexual violence.

Our Kids Cannot Learn About Sex Just From Squeamish Gym Teachers

Check out Hillary’s op-ed in the New York Times!

EPISODE #220: The Staircase

We’re back after a 5-year hiatus! Hillary kicks us off with a story about her anxiety over her daughter’s first experience with unwanted male attention — and her subsequent misadventures in trying to get the girl’s school to teach consent.

Here Lies Me

While LST was on hiatus, Hillary created a fiction podcast about middle school called Here Lies Me. Check it out!