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On the latest episode of Our Womanity with Dr, Rachel Pope we delve into the world of female sexual health with esteemed guest, Dr. Jill Krapf. A board-certified Obstetrician Gynecologist and Director of the Center for Vulvovaginal Disorders Florida, Dr. Krapf brings her expertise in female sexual pain and skin disorders to the forefront.

In this enlightening conversation, Dr. Krapf shares insights on checking your vulva regularly, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness. She draws from her extensive research and publications on vulvodynia and vulvar lichen sclerosus, shedding light on conditions that often go unnoticed. Learn about the intersection of gynecology and sexual medicine as Dr. Krapf explores the value of cross-disciplinary knowledge.

Discover more about Dr. Krapf's journey and her impactful contributions to the field, including her role as Associate Editor for Sexual Medicine and her involvement with the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) and the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease.

Featured in this episode:

• "When Sex Hurts: Understand and Healing Pelvic Pain."
• Finding Lichen Sclerosus specialists
• Diagnosing Lichen Sclerosus
• Is Lichen Sclerosus an autoimmune disease
• Is itching a major symptom?

Resource List:

• Lichen Sclerosus Support Network

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Looking for practical advice for women in their 60’s who want to become sexually active or want to improve their current sex life? Check out Sex in Your Sixties: Who says the fun has to stop? Written by a multidisciplinary group of health professionals who address issues such as pain with sex, low desire for sex, orgasm difficulties, your bladder and sex, same sex partners, vulvar skin conditions, trauma and more.

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Join us we welcome our favorite guest back to the pod, DB’s mom Dr. Rebecca Levy-Gantt, to talk about all things vaginal health. This episode takes a close look at the prevalence and importance of diagnosing vaginal infections and conditions, which Dr. Levy-Gantt has experienced firsthand through her patients' stories. She emphasizes the importance of in-person diagnosis and enlightens us about the wide age range of her patients and the unique challenges they face.

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• (0:14:34) - Importance of Proper Vaginal Infection Diagnosis

• (0:24:55) - Understanding Vaginal Infections and Inflammation

• (0:31:33) - Sexual Health and Importance of Protection

• (0:41:52) - Preventing and Managing Recurring Infections

• (0:55:53) - Gynecology Practice and Future Plans

Find more from Dr. Levy-Gantt:

http://premierobgynnapa.com/

Dr. Rebecca Levy-Gantt is an ObGyn in private practice in Napa California who focuses on menopause but at the current time, takes care of girls and women at all ages, 14-94. She is on Linked In, and her practice website is Premierobgynnapa.com

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Sex Ed with DB is a feminist podcast bringing you all the sex ed you never got through unique and entertaining storytelling, centering LGBTQ+ and BIPOC experts. We discuss topics such as birth control, pleasure, LGBTQ+ health and rights, abortion, consent, BDSM, sex and disability, HIV, sex in the media, and more.

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Sex Ed with DB, Season 8 Team:

Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Danielle Bezalel (DB)

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Associate Producer: Sadie Lidji

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In this episode, I sit down with Beatrice Dixon. Bea is the Co-Founder, CEO, Chief Innovation Officer and face of the Honey Pot Company. She wears many hats. Honey Pot Company is a vagina and human wellness brand that focuses to destigmatize how people talk about them. This is an extremely special episode for me because I met Bea in 2015 as a buyer over sanitary protection at Target. I brought the brand in at Target and love to see how much the brand has grown.

This episode gets personal, we know that business is one hat that founders wear but we are people too. We might be running a business but have other things happening in life. These are part of the challenges that founders overcome. I hope you enjoy this episode as we talk keys to growth, and also personal points of wisdom.

Podcast Outline

02:46 Category Changes in Menstruation

05:53 What has been one of the hardest things to go through as a brand?

21:58 Why was slow growth the right path for you? Do you have any cautions about fast growth? Cut at 27:40 "You're dropping some wisdom

10:02 How would you address challenges if you were launching a new brand today?

16:48 If you could transport back, what would you share with your freshly minted entrepreneurial self?

28:00 Bea's Helpful Resources

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The Emerson Group

The Emerson Group is a consumer products and equity organization that works with brands that sell into retailers across the USA, Mexico and Canada. Our services include logistics, marketing, consumer insights, brand design, consumer care, and more. For more information on our organization, visit emersongroup.com.

The Honey Pot Company

Their mission is to educate, support, and provide women around the world with the tools and resources that promote feminine health and wellness. We do this by engaging and empowering the women we serve one healthy honey pot at a time. 

Through our functional plant-based feminine care system, our goal is to provide women with a healthy alternative to feminine care that is free of chemicals, parabens, carcinogens, and sulfates. Our washes are gynecologist approved, clinically tested and pH balanced. Say hello to the future of feminine care. 

http://www.thehoneypot.co

On this episode:

Vaginas, Vulvas and Clits;

 - Parts

 - Bullshit & Woo

 - Health and Care

 - Menstruation

 - Shaming

 - Folklore and Myth

 - Art

The sources for information shared on this episode will be posted on the social media sites.

Tea 22 of 40.  Julia retraces her journey from a high flying corporate career to founding globally recognised NGO Orchid Project, on a mission to empower women & eradicate FGC. This honest tea talks of the pivot point, when purpose became more important than money.  How therapy, stopping drinking and entering a Youtube competition left her talking vaginas at Davos with world leaders.  Dream the impossible, an inspiring tea.  Go get that kettle on and join Rach and us for a cuppa.

Part of the Powerhouse Women series on 40 for Tea.  

We debated if this topic was too much, but... we’re kind of too much sometimes - so we went for it. We are talking all things vaginas and nothing is off limits. Does having sex make you loose? How to get a tighter vagina? Is shaving bad for you? Does the G-spot really exist? We are answering these questions and many more. Then we offer up our weekly music recommendations and head into Dish Bish where we are spilling the tea on some of our most embarrassing vagina-related stories! There is so much packed in this episode you don’t wanna miss it, but it’s a little raunchy and we warned you. 

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Check out our blog article that highlights the top 11 Vagina Questions and Answers. 

Links & Resources

• References related to all the vagina questions… 
  • https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/how-deep-is-a-vagina#kegels
  • https://www.chennaigynecologist.com/how-to-tighten-your-vagina-naturally/
  • https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/loose-vagina#what-it-means-to-have-a-'tight'-vagina 
  • https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19967763/shaving-pubic-hair-safe/
  • https://www.webmd.com/women/guide/vaginal-douching-helpful-or-harmful
  • https://health.clevelandclinic.org/feminine-odor-problems-what-you-should-know-about-douching/
  • https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/vagina-facials#the-verdict
  • https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19946043/hymen-facts/
  • https://www.lehmiller.com/blog/2015/2/19/5-common-questions-about-vaginas
  • https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/advice/a6131/how-to-have-vaginal-orgasm/
  • https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19917472/uterus-didelphys/ 
  • https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vaginal%20Hubris
• Do chickens have vaginas?
  • https://www.quora.com/Do-chickens-have-vaginas
  • https://www.motherrisingbirth.com/2011/08/wisdom-wednesday-chicken-e

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GUY PARTY, is joined by a very SPECIAL guest, Stevie D!!! The guys create plans for a one of a kind fetish house!!! Get ready for an all new, GUY PARTY themed obstacle course, The Mudder Butter!!! Where only the most elite, Boozeheads will make it out....alive!?! GUY PARTY!!!

Since we discussed the Inauguration in our most recent show (#509), we thought a good idea for this week's throwback would be an episode we recorded during the last Inauguration. Way back in January 2017. Enjoy and watch for a brand new episode of the Uglee Truth podcast dropping this Sunday.

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Continuing on in the theme of 'Enough...' The Two Jess(es) have had ENOUGH of several things, just to name a few: tinkling when they sneeze, peeing themselves when they laugh too hard, having to pee more than 14 times a day and the perpetual dryness, 'down there.'
ENOUGH already!

Dr. Gopi takes this episode to a whole new level with an in-depth visit to 'Vagina Town.' She explains then ins and outs (pun intended!) of the often overlooked importance of pelvic health, details the signs and symptoms that could be a result of problems with the pelvis, and well, just has a lot of fun talking about it all. In her words: 'her job is to help people enjoy sex again!' And she LOVES it!

TTJ(es) have a lot of fun with this incredibly informative conversation. Even if the word Vagina, (and dicks) makes you uncomfortable,  stick with it- and take a ride to Vagina Town with Dr. Gopi- there is help out there for us all!

Meet Dr. Gopi!

Gopi was born and raised in New York and graduated from Stony Brook University with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2003 at which time her interest in Women's Health began. She eventually moved to Brooklyn, where she started the first Women's Health PT program at a major hospital. Gopi went on to open a private practice in Brooklyn, specializing in male and female pelvic health for 8 years until her family life brought her to Northern Virginia.

She started Blueprint Physical Therapy in January of 2019 and has loved getting to know her new surroundings while providing in home visits around DC, Maryland and Virginia. She is dedicated to continuing education and is a teacher, teaching assistant and lecturer for providers of many disciplines and for the community. She's also a wife and mom of a 4 and 5 year old and just added a pandemic puppy to her family.

http://blueprintphysicaltherapy.com

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In this first episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 4, we chat about Ovee, a hub for folks with vaginas, with Maddy Siriouthay. Maddy (she/her) is a writer, designer and creative technologist dedicated to social good, education and community. She is the CCO and Co-founder of Ovee, a sexual and reproductive health hub for women (and people with vaginas), which is committed to the re-education and the destigmatization of the body. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Lao/tian American National Alliance (LANA), a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing, uplifting, and uniting the Lao/tian American community, with recent efforts being addressing recent deportation orders and the 2020 Census.

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Sex Ed with DB, Season 4 Team:

Creator, Co-Producer, Sound Engineer and Host: Danielle Bezalel (DB)

Co-Producer and Communications Lead: Cathren Cohen

Graphic Illustrator: Andrea Forgacs

Website: Alex Morton 

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Krista stops by again to share more horrific online dating stories, the carnivore diet and did you know there are 5 different types of vaginas? We didn't either!

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3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation. Each chapter of 3 Books uncovers and discusses the three most formative books from one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Judy Blume, David Sedaris, Chris Anderson of TED, and the world's greatest Uber driver. Each of the 333 chapters is dropped on the exact minute of every new moon and full moon until September 1, 2031. 3 Books is an Apple "Best Of" award-winning show as well as the world's only podcast by and for book lovers, writers, makers, sellers... and librarians. For more info check out: www.3books.co 

Dr. Jen Gunter is a Canadian-American OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician. Jen is commonly referred to as Twitter’s resident gynecologist, the Internet’s OB/GYN, and is one of the fiercest advocates for women’s health. Jen writes the New York Times columns "The Cycle" and "You Asked Jen Gunter." She hosts the popular TV show Jensplaining and she has written the bestselling books "The Preemie Primer" and "The Vagina Bible."

Chapter Description:

Question for you.

Let’s say you were scheduled to give birth to triplets, but they arrived prematurely, and one of them died during birth at the hospital …

In that painful situation, what would you do?

You’d search for answers!

You’d ask questions!

And if you’re Dr. Jen Gunter, you would recognize that, even to a doctor, the answers were confusing, misleading, and sometimes contradictory. So what did she do? Well, Jen wrote an entire book on premature babies called the The Preemie Primer. The book became popular and helped Jen develop a massive following to the point where she’s known today as Twitter’s OB/GYN.

Why?

Because she’s not afraid to give people the cold, hard truth.

Today Jen hosts the TV show Jensplaining and writes not one but two New York Times columns!

Jen recently wrote another book called The Vagina Bible which took off and has been climbing bestsellers lists.

Due to the success of her books Jen is often on promotion tours so I was able to catch up with her at the PenguinRandomHouse offices in Toronto when she came through town for TV shows and to give speeches.

Jen and I discuss how medicine became rooted in mansplaining, how to teach kids sex ed, and of course, her three most formative books.

Let’s go!

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

• How do we break the cycle of “those who get bullied become bullies?”

• How did Dr. Jen Gunter become known as Twitter’s OB/GYN?

• How should parents teach their children sex ed?

• How is the stigma surrounding STIs impacting rates of transmission and treatment?

• When is shame a wasted emotion and when is it an appropriate emotion?

• What are the key ingredients for good sex?

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We talk to writer Lori Gottlieb, who pens The Atlantic's "Ask a Therapist" column about what it's like to be a therapist in therapy. Shannon and Jordana talk about their adventures (and misadventures) with therapy. But that's not all: The bane of modern parenting — SLIME — and places you don’t want your child to put it is discussed, and since Jordana's mom is on vacation, the team places a call to Shannon's adorable 94-year-old grandmother.

Got a story to share? Email us at callyourmother@kveller.com. We’re waiting to hear from you. Or leave us a voicemail at 908-248-4273.

Music:
"Voicemail" by Khronos Beats
"Evidence Song" by The Good Lawdz
"Fallen Stars" by Ketsa
"Swing America" by Dimusic
"Best I Can" by Jasmine Jordan ft. Habit Blcx