Learn everything you didn't think you needed to know about the mysterious magic of the human female reproductive system along with some weird facts about duck, dolphin and kangaroos.
Learn everything you didn't think you needed to know about the mysterious magic of the human female reproductive system along with some weird facts about duck, dolphin and kangaroos.
Let's get started on that. So I was actually gonna start with that, if that's okay. We can always cut
Lisa:we can sure go for it.
Drea:All right. Well, cause I was think, what I was thinking is I was like, it'd be a good time to talk about it because our little discussion about the logo which was absolutely fantastic. So we decided to get rid of listeners, all thousands of you. We decided to get rid of Ms. Laney because it just wasn't working. We had to explain it. It was just. hard, right?
Lisa:to think hard to remember how to spell it.
Drea:So we replaced it with who wants to say, who wants to say,
Lisa:Megan, you say it?
Meags:I'm sitting here not saying anything and I have to say it.
Lisa:Yes.
Meags:gonna get it wrong. I've been busy all week doing other things. I won't
Drea:who remembers Kathy's? Gotta remember.
Lisa:I remember it. I just thought it would be funny. Hear Megan say it.
Kathy:Best friends sharing. Interesting.
Drea:Yay.
Lisa:Yay.
Drea:I think we'll stick with that one. Maybe that's easy.
Lisa:I like it.
Drea:So
Meags:and advertising
Drea:yes,
Lisa:It's, it's not necessarily a simple name, but it just gets right to the point of what, what this podcast is
Drea:Well, yes, exactly. And now we have a new logo which was negotiated between all of us. which was so.
Carey:whatever we landed on. I love it.
Drea:Well, cause Lisa and I, we like the pink ones. Megan and totally stayed out of it. And then Cathy and ca That's okay. Cathy and Carrie, well like the black and white one. And so then like I had to like mull it over for a little while cuz I was, it's not that I didn't like it, obviously I wouldn't have sensitive, I hated it. But then I, like, once people responded really positively, I was like, shit, I can't just put it out there like that because like it's not, doesn't represent all of us. And so then Kathy allowed, To add a little blink, and then we had a little discussion about the bling, and finally she laid down the law and she was like, I had a shitty day. This is my job. We're going with the green.
Carey:Fuck you.
Lisa:That's fine. Like I said, just move on.
Meags:I'm so sorry I missed this
Lisa:I, I didn't,
Drea:what?
Lisa:like I'm not, I I think it's fine. Kathy, I respect your work. I just wanted to move on.
Drea:I know it was great. It was, it was a great collaboration. It was a CoLab.
Lisa:Yes.
Drea:So anyway, all that's gonna come up. That's all gonna be live pretty soon.
Lisa:So I was debating whether or not to share this on recording, but I will. So I had a really cool dream last night. And you will all you guys were all in it.
Meags:Oh my
Lisa:We were. We were in a crappy apartment in New Orleans and we kept saying it was our old apartment. We kept saying it was our old apartment, like from our senior year. and we had rented it like over VRBO or something, and, but everybody, all of us were there. And then Claire was there and Jenna, and we were just all having a great old time.
Carey:Oh man. If that place was at Airbnb right now, I would totally rent it. That
Lisa:Oh, I would too. And just expecting it to be an utter shit hole.
Kathy:I can't believe how much you guys trashed that place.
Lisa:oh, it was
Drea:didn't see it when we got it. They weren't even moved out. They weren't even moved out.
Lisa:remember.
Drea:I, I mean, seriously.
Carey:My mom
Kathy:saw it. I saw it like Labor Day weekend after like you guys had moved in and then, and then I saw it your graduation weekend and I was like, holy fuck. You guys had comple. I mean, yes, it wasn't great to begin with, but you guys trashed it.
Lisa:But classic, what I remember is, so those, okay, so we're in New Orleans, but you know, in the winter it gets a little cold and those windows. Just cold air just came
Kathy:that was part of the trashing was carrie's
Lisa:No, so Clay, so, so Andrea decided, we decided to get that foam insulation stuff to put around the edging of the windows and Drea and I were messing with it cuz we couldn't get more to come out And then it just like out,
Kathy:I thought it was a Carrie that did it.
Lisa:it was
Drea:No, we did it.
Lisa:foam
Kathy:That actually makes a lot more sense.
Drea:It seemed like a really good idea at
Lisa:was the two of us.
Drea:Yeah.
Lisa:Yeah. We had a really good type and then we decorated it.
Drea:And then we couldn't stop it. Do you remember how we couldn't stop It it just like kept going
Lisa:and then it like dried and we like colored it or decorated it or something.
Carey:Hard like
Kathy:the listeners out there, there was
Lisa:like, well, at least.
Kathy:there's a window, and then this was like an old, it's like an old New Orleans like apartment building. It had beautiful crime molding and sh you know, like crystal SCOs and chandeliers. I don't know why they were running
Lisa:was beautiful that it had been, no one
Kathy:this window, these two, use that foam spray that as you spray it, it expands. It looked like a frozen chicken on the side of this window.
Lisa:It was like yellow too.
Drea:it was too.
Kathy:like a frozen
Lisa:wasn't like white to meld in with a paint or anything. It was yellow, but that was a
Meags:Yay
Drea:That is pretty awesome. Well, you know what else is awesome? We're gonna talk about, I am preparing for Valentine's today, so, We are gonna do Valentine's is for vaginas,
Carey:Hmm. What.
Kathy:I gotta go. I'll see you guys later.
Drea:Come on man. It's part of your body. It's not gonna be, it's you
Meags:So is my ear wax. I don't wanna talk about that either.
Drea:I'm not talking about your, I'm not talking about your specific vaginas. None of our specific
Lisa:All right, so we aren't expected to discuss our vaginas on this podcast.
Drea:No, not vaginas, not not sex lives, any of that kind of stuff.
Lisa:Okay. Good.
Drea:So, so you know, we'll go like, we'll Google a little bit into the kind of stuff I like to talk about, like evolution and anatomy, and then we will talk a little bit about orgasms. Nothing personal about'em, no personal information has to be shared. All right, So it's all good. It's all good. Okay. But before we get started, I'm really, and I found some really cool trivia, not about human vaginas, but I, so this is gonna be like trivia you guys tell me. So my first question is, what shape is a duck's vagina? Is it cylindrical like ours? Is it a zigzag or is it a spiral?
Lisa:I was gonna say spiral.
Meags:Zigzag.
Drea:You're right, it's a spiral
Meags:Oh, you're all smarter than I am.
Lisa:Well, zigzag doesn't make any sense. I mean, how
Meags:Well, I mean, a spiral doesn't make any sense either.
Kathy:Is this where the term screw comes from?
Drea:Oh, I don't know. I don't know. But there is a, the,
Kathy:assumed in male. Penis is like a screw, right?
Drea:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's right. So and I do, I have pictures I'm gonna send to you, Kathy, once we like you don't have to, You don't
Kathy:know? I need the
Drea:up. We're gonna wait until, I'm gonna wait until I'm done with my, my my trivia, and then we can, and then I'll send you guys, I'll send all of
Lisa:send some pictures. So then when I start up that Facebook page, I can put some inappropriate content on Facebook.
Drea:Sweet. Yes, definitely. Duck genitalia is very, very inappropriate. So, but there is a, I did see there's a d an app called VR Duck, genitalia Explorer. Should you be interested in like learning more? I didn't put it together. I'm just telling you. I'm just telling you it's out there. Okay. So how many vaginas, how many vaginas does a kangaroo. Three, one, uh, or it depends on the time of the month.
Meags:Whoa.
Lisa:Depends on the time of the month. Hmm. I
Carey:gonna say three.
Kathy:I'll go with Depends. Just cuz why not
Lisa:What were the options again? Depends. And three.
Kathy:one, and three.
Lisa:I'm gonna go with one
Meags:I'm gonna go with the pens cuz that's just totally weird and I really wanna know. Come on, tell us.
Kathy:want it to be.
Drea:They've got three vaginas,
Lisa:Wow.
Meags:What.
Drea:So, so my studios, they all have three vaginas, and two, it says uterine. So I guess that's a, that's the plural for uteruses uterine, uh, the left and the right vaginas carry sperm. From the penis, which I guess that's where it would come from, which is two-pronged. And so the inseminate they, and so as to inseminate, both vaginas at once while the central vagina serves as a birth canal for the jelly jellybean sized Joeys
Kathy:Jelly being in size. They're so little.
Drea:jelly beans, ice. Yeah. All right. And so then my last question is, what size is a Dolphin's clitoris? Volleyball, tennis ball or golf ball?
Meags:I like dolphins and they seem happy, so probably volleyball,
Lisa:just gonna say tennis ball to be.
Kathy:say tennis.
Drea:Any other guesses
Kathy:I think it's tennis. I mean, I'm gonna say tennis.
Lisa:Guys at Tennis,
Carey:Tennis or volleyball.
Drea:tennis, volley or golf?
Carey:Oh yeah. Tennis seems reasonable.
Drea:Yeah. It's tennis ball sized.
Kathy:Proportional to their bodies.
Drea:Yeah. So so these scientists, they deci dissected 11 dolphin Clitorises. And they looked at them through a CT scanner. And they're actually a roughly triangular shape and And so they're easily accessible to a penis, snout, or fin. female dolphins have been seen masturbating by rubbing their clitoris against sand on dolphin, snouts and other objects on the sea floor.
Kathy:Like scuba divers,
Drea:I know. It's just like, it's so crazy. Can you imagine just like rubbing your coat off up against a wall or.
Kathy:sand.
Drea:I'm gonna rub it in the sand.
Meags:Stand is like, that's like the worst thing imaginable for that area. That's terrible.
Drea:I know.
Meags:feel kind of bad for the dolphins now.
Drea:Well, I mean, they wouldn't do it if they didn't like it.
Meags:I suppose that's true.
Drea:So if you guys wanna learn more about Strange Animal Gen genitalia, I read, I got all that information from a Smithsonian article called Why Have Female Animals Evolved Such Wild Genitalia. So it's a very good article, very interesting. And then there's also, I just learned this today. There is a vagina museum in London that opened in 27 17. So
Lisa:All
Drea:another another field trip. Another field trip. Um,
Meags:shit.
Lisa:It's a reason to go back to London.
Carey:Yeah. Really?
Drea:All right. So, okay. This is what we know about vagina evolution. So, the oldest, oldest, the oldest placental mammal with a vagina is was showed up in the fossil record about 165 million years ago. And she was smaller than a chimp monk and she hung out in the trees and she ate bugs. And then she was actually likely the mother of all, all placental mammal mothers. So we're talking about, oh wait, I need to send the link to Kathy. Just a minute. I'll send it to all you guys because it's got pictures. It's got the pictures. Oh God. Oh, there. Okay. Entertain everybody. Okay. Here we. It's a document with pictures and we will make this available on the, so everybody can see it, but you can't see it right now, so do my best with the descriptions. Okay. So we've got this small chimp monk that's got, like, you know, she's the mother of all of us. So like we're talking about everything from APY Gibo to an arctic blue whale, which is, that's a lot of animals. I mean like, and it's all the animals that. Placental birth, which I thought that was kind of cool. And if you can imagine like the pygmy gibo is about two inches, and of course the blue whale is really big. I don't even know. Much, much larger. So anyway, so anyway, we aren't really sure about when our ancestors stopped laying eggs. We actually aren't even sure why they stopped laying eggs, but we do know that. When ma like mammal switched to live birth, the, you know, the pale, pale paleontologists, they had to sniff out very rare and hard to discern evidence about what our ancient forbearers and their, and their and the relatives we produced. And since the soft tissue of mammals in preserve you, well, it's hard for evolutionary biologists to determine when we started giving live birth. So instead, Studying that cuz I can't, they settle. They, they have been. Studying pelvis. And so like theoretically a narrow pel narrower pelvis would prevent an animal from laying eggs. So it's, so it's in this case like the oldest known number of our own placental lineage. So that first one was like everybody, and that included the mammals and the, and the marsupials. And so, but for mammals, the oldest one for us is and it means dawn mother. So that's cap, you know, the capacity of its hips was pretty small. Like it was pretty narrow. So that's why they think that that was the first animal to reproduce more like us than the Plao deck, which still does do eggs, but they are mammals. So I really couldn't find, you know, I was really looking for like, like ours, like where did ours come from? How did ours develop? Have no idea. So you. All we know right now is that humans have the worst we have the worst birth experience on the entire planet. No other animal does it the way we do it. It's Really? painful, as we all know. Yeah, yeah. Most of'em, it's just like, like if you think about a kitten, right? Like a cat, they just pop out a bunch of kittens and then they're done and they're like looking their kittens and everything. the only ones that like suffer the way we do
Lisa:Hmm.
Drea:So and so the.
Meags:So I have a question. Are we really the only ones that suffer the way we do, or are we just the only ones who express our suffering in the way we do?
Drea:no, like
Meags:They really, they really think that none of them have like extended pain.
Kathy:All right.
Drea:say for no one, I mean like, but, and actually this is something I read a long time ago was cuz as the question like when you look at other mammals, like when you look at other, other primates, which are primates, which are close to us, They, they're built to pop'em out, right? Like they just pop'em out. They don't have the pain, they don't lose their uteruses, they don't like bleed to death, all that kind. They don't die in childbirth the way that we do. And so the idea is that it works well enough, like enough of us survive with the way it is that nature hasn't had to like improve you know what I mean? It's
Lisa:Well, maybe because we have the mental capacity. To like assist each other in the birth, like from the beginning of time they were women, helped women deliver babies. So maybe that
Drea:Hmm.
Lisa:so we didn't have to evolve further, I dunno.
Meags:we evolved socially instead of physic.
Lisa:Right.
Drea:Yeah, I mean we could, I mean maybe we'll, and you know, we'll evolve more. The idea is that, you know, we were all like theoretically, not theoretically, you know, we were all had four legs and then when we stood up, like the kind of, and became bi bipedal It was necessary for our innards to change, right? So our vaginal canal had to get smaller so we could stand up and our hips got wider so we could deliver our, our, you know, deliver the children. But it just, it just really didn't get a lot better than that for us. So that that's so far. Um, but yeah, so like it also means that like we, that's one of the reasons we can't run as fast as men is that like,
Carey:Our uterus is dragging us down
Drea:Yeah,
Lisa:What are vaginas or drag? Drag driving us down? Is that what you said?
Meags:Are uterus.
Drea:Uteruses.
Lisa:Or Uteruses.
Drea:Our uteruses. Yeah.
Kathy:So, you know how I believe I don't know. I don't have the statistics. But I believe that over the last however many years our. I guess fetal death rates and maternal death rates have gone up than they used to, than, you know, than they were maybe like, you know, even 15, 20 years ago. So I wonder if we're in the opposite direction.
Meags:I think we're evolving socially in the opposite direction, and that's what's happening is that people aren't taking care of each other
Kathy:Yeah.
Meags:because they, there's, cuz a lot of the fetal and maternal death rates have to do with access to possible care
Carey:Yeah.
Meags:and like, because we've relied on that for so long, there's not anyone in those communities who can get in there and do what the hospital did. And therefore more people die. So I feel like, I feel like it's a social thing, but I think the thing that's interesting is like the development and the popularity and the ongoing popularity of the cesarean section is gonna have a big influence on our evolution. And I wish we would be around to see that, but we won't. But it's interesting to think about.
Kathy:the new thing you're doing now is Planned induction. So they,
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:I know someone who's pregnant right now due in, well, next week she'll have a baby and they're doing a, they're doing a planned induction like several days before her due date.
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:Ideally to, you know, to control it and keep her from having to have a cesarean is what they said.
Meags:That's not how that works, but like generally, if you're in like induction is a harbor bringer of cesareans because you're not listening to your body, you're not allowing your body to progress at its own rate. But obs really like it because it keeps everybody on a schedule and. A lot of, A lot of moms really like it because they would like to be on a schedule and they would like to feel like they're controlling what's happening in their life and in their body, even though that's pretty much impossible.
Lisa:Yeah, but sometimes it's, I'm like, I was induced, so they tried to induce me with Tommy, um, because my blood pressure was getting too high. So sometimes it's just medically
Meags:Yeah. Like, I think, right, and I think that's always the case when it, like, especially when it, like, I just think maternal medicine is so interesting because so much of it especially when we lived in the DC area. Was like, come birth at our hospital. We're like a hotel. Look at these beds, look at these bathtubs. And it was like, okay, can we talk about like, like the hospital closest to me had a 50% C-section rate.
Carey:Wow.
Meags:Yeah. So it's like, what are we gonna. Focus on here. Are we gonna focus on the amenities or are we gonna focus on the medicine? Are we gonna focus on, you know, maybe not relying on hospitals as much, like there's a lot of different ways that this can all spin out. But yeah, I mean, there's definitely medical cases for sure. But like, are there, is there a reason why you can't, if you like I did. Start, you know, hit your due date and go past it in the last week of the year. You end up at the hospital where they tell you that they're, they've already done six C-sections that day that you're the seventh. And they're annoyed because people book that whole week out because everybody wants their baby to come before for Taxe.
Carey:Wow.
Meags:So what, like, like the, like I, I mean, I birthed in DC hospitals twice in Virginia hospitals and it was a totally different experience to be there in November because being there, you know, the day before. New Year's Eve was like a full on zoo because they were literally booked, every room was full. Every, like anybody who was due in the first, you know, two weeks of January was trying to get in there and get induced or schedule, just schedule a straight up C-section and it was like,
Carey:that seems like poor medicine,
Lisa:Yeah,
Meags:it's, it's one of those things where it's like, are doctors helping people by allowing them to get what they want? Or are they hurting people by allowing them to get what they want?
Lisa:we'll see then, but then you also have the, the doctors trying to get what they want because with Connor, his due date was around the 4th of July, and they basically worked to push up his due date. To have a plan cuz I ended up having a c-section with my first one. So my second one had to also be a C-section
Meags:Nope.
Lisa:and then he had the C-section to, oh, I know, I've heard, but I've also heard horrible stories of people trying to have, give birth after having a C-section. But anyway, so his was a, he was too early. I mean, he was really big, but his lungs weren't ready.
Meags:Yeah,
Carey:Yeah,
Drea:so we will talk about that next time. Hold those thoughts cuz we can go back to it. I did not talk about childbirth in this cuz we were so focused on Valentine's and orgasms, not babies and
Lisa:I'm
Drea:birthing
Lisa:Let's talk about the orgasms. You gotta have those before you
Carey:a fun
Kathy:how you get there.
Drea:Yes. Yeah, we're talking about how you get there and then we can talk about what it's like to be there. That's okay. I was trying to, I was trying to be cool about it, but I'm done being cool.
Lisa:Moving on. I'll stop talking.
Drea:So, okay. So anyway, we're gonna just talk like really fast.
Lisa:Why was that?
Meags:But excellent Andrea invitation.
Carey:Sorry. I dunno. It just came out
Drea:I get it. I get it. Motherfucker. We're gonna go into the, I was but I was thinking about like, kind of like I was leaking at the the female kind of reproductive track, which is, you know, our genitalia. And I really was, I actually, I don't, like, I was thinking that it would be really great if you could describe it kind of like the, the Rube Goldberg machines. Like, I asked people on Facebook, what, what that was.I was like, it would be great if you could do that. They're not really as complicated as one of those. So we, but I'll just go ahead. And then I was thinking like, well, maybe I could do like the head, shoulders, knees, and toes. But like, none of the, none of the vocabulary fits with that. Like, everything's more than one syllable, so we're just gonna have to go normal as, as, as normal as we can. So oh, this is one thing. So when we're, like, when we are in utero, we have 6 million eggs. And then by the time that we are in puberty, we only have 300,000. And then of course, and they just keep like de you know, being depleted like that, like in a very quickly, and so that's how it,
Kathy:before puberty?
Drea:I don't know. See that's what I was thinking. It was like, does does, does the body absorb them? Do we, like, do they fall out of us? I don't know. I
Lisa:like you're not, you're not before puberty, you're not having periods. So where would they go?
Drea:But you, yeah, I mean that's the thing though, is it's like it goes down to an like a manageable number. So like at the end of the day, we used maybe like three or 400 eggs, like in our lifetime. And so, but yeah, so I don't know. I mean, like that would be a good question, but I did not answer. But I did have that question and I did ask some ideas like maybe it evaporates. I don't know.
Kathy:Yeah, I think it's just.
Drea:They
Meags:our body absorbs them for you know, calories and energy and things like that. When you're growing.
Lisa:maybe.
Drea:Yeah, I don't know, but I do know that once a month, one of these eggs, one or two eggs, probably just one we're gonna drop down out of our fallopian tubes. I'm just gonna tell you, I know you guys know this. I'm just gonna go really fast for it, for
Lisa:I, just feel it as you're describing it. Oh, go ahead.
Drea:so, yeah, exactly. It's, it's dropping outta your fallopian tube and then it pops into the uterus and then, you know, like the uterus is just like an ever expanding baby sack and you've got a, a baby in there. And then the egg clings to the uterine wall for like a few weeks and it's waiting for. It's really waiting for a sperm to dis bombard it. Like the wrath of con when he unleashes his laser, laser bombs onto the enterprise, you know what I'm talking about? Like, boom,
Lisa:I do sadly.
Drea:That's, that's what those, that's what those sperm are doing. You got your little egg embedded into the uterine wall and they're just like trying to get in. And so, uh, and so then when that doesn't happen or when it does happen, we get a zygote. And if we don't, it just. know, comes out with your period, and then the cervix is just below our uterus. I really hadn't really given this a whole lot of thought, but so your cervix is below your uterus and it is like a traffic cop between your uterus and your vaginal canal. And so it controls what comes in and what goes out. And it also protects the uterus from like bad players like tampons and diaphragm. S things that could otherwise get stuck up in the uterus. So you've got the cervix that's closing shit off. And then when you are ovulating, your cervix secretes a mucus that's thinner and less acidic than neutral than than usual, which by the way, we are more acidic when we are like in baby baby years, like when we can have babies. We are more acidic in there. I didn't know that either. and so when we're ovulating, okay, yeah, your cervix creates mucus and it's thinner with the acid, and then it makes it more, it makes it easier for the sperm to go through. and then, and then, let's see. So the, this is the Cleveland Clinic says Cleveland Clinic, when you're pregnant, it creates a mucus. And the walls of the uterus from every, and it plugs everything away like so you've got a baby in there. And so the steel turx is like, okay, we're gonna put this mucus plug in, nothing else can go in. Cause the baby's growing and then it hangs out there until the baby's ready to come out. And then that mucus plug, which just sounds so disgusting, like it dissolves and it spits out. Yeah. Like, Hey, I got a mucus plug in me. I got a baby. It's got like a hand in front of her face, like, stop it. Stop it. So anyway, when the baby's ready, the mucus plug dissolves and the CER cervix opens up and the gate lets that baby slide out into the vaginal canal. And
Lisa:So you say it. I'm sorry. You say it dissolves like it just disappears. It comes up.
Drea:I know,
Lisa:it? Okay. Just saying it doesn't really just like dissolve and just poop. It's gone,
Drea:Yeah, it dissolves and then it trick gets outta your, trickles, outta your body. It comes outta your body. I dunno if it comes out of the plug though. I think it just dissolves. I don't know.
Meags:think it depends on the person.
Drea:yeah, I just know I was squirting, uh, the, whatever that water is, it was gross. Um, and
Meags:Amniotic fluid.
Drea:yes,
Lisa:Your water broke
Drea:my water broke. My water broke. I was at a party and my water broke. It was really weird. It was true. I'm telling you. Cause and you know, I was like, cuz you know, Zalo was super early. And I was like, but I yeah, I was like, gosh, I must be, and I started having these oh, you know, I don't wanna go into it. We can talk about that later. I had her eventually. So then, anyway, the vaginal canal, it's actually. Attached to the cervi and the cervix, and it opens up outside of your body. And that is of course, where we put our tampons and vibrators and dildos and penises. Any place, any like things to pleasure, a woman can go in there. But tampons aren't pleasurable, by the way. Tamps are, they're definitely not pleasurable.
Lisa:Just necessary. Put your lipstick, save it for later.
Carey:Don't forget your keys.
Lisa:What this
Drea:Oh,
Lisa:is just in the toilet.
Drea:I love it. I love it. If you can't make fun of your vagina, what can you make fun of? So okay, so, so yeah. Okay. Then one last thing about the vaginal canal, which I thought was super interesting was, like when you are. I don't know. I keep calling it the childbearing years. I, I mean, I know there's something more specific than that. Your like the skin in there develops ridges so it can expand when you're having a baby. So like the skin is like, can grow big so that baby can plop on out. But that's only while you're, that's only in those years. And then when you're pre-pubescent and menopausal, it goes, it like smooths out. Which I was like, that's pretty cool. Good to know. Good to know. So anyway oh, so your vaginal canal opens up into your vulva So, and then and then our out, you know, the outer folds of your fold your your lab, I call your labia madura, and the inner folds are called lab. Minor. I got this wrong. All right. Anyway, yeah, that was it. I just wrote it wrong. And so at the top of the vulva is a little nub, and I wanna know, how do you guys pronounce the word and I'm gonna spell it out. I think you all know the word, but c l i t o r i s. How do you, how do you pronounce it?
Carey:I,
Lisa:click Taurus.
Carey:yeah, I, I, I say clitoris, but I don't know that
Lisa:Yeah. I don't either, but that's just, yeah.
Drea:It can go either way. There's nothing, I call it e clitoris, but, and Kathy apparently doesn't call it anything cuz she's very quiet
Lisa:I'm not sure Kathy likes the topic.
Drea:It's.
Kathy:Lauren's called Sta
Lisa:she's what?
Kathy:I said mine's called Stacy. No, I'm just kidding.
Lisa:Okay. Say she looks a little pink, but I don't know.
Kathy:I think if clitoris is whatever,
Drea:Yeah. So anyway, like so you've got this little nub that sticks out that we all can see, but like if you put on your imagination cap the clitoris is actually, the rest of the clitoris is really big and it is like it, I'm gonna try and I have the picture in there for you guys, but like, it looks like. Saddle bags with legs draped over your urethra. is kinda what the rest of your CL looks like. And so, and then
Kathy:in fact do not have this photograph in the, in
Drea:what? Aw man. Sorry. Anyway, well imagine you've got a saddle over your urethra and it's got like, on the sides, it's got these little saddle bags, and then you got like these little legs coming out, like on the sides, and so they kind of look like you're They kind of look like legs on a, on a horse, but there's no horse there. It's just, it's the saddle bags. And. And then the bags are called the clitoral bulbs. And then they are actually made of like a squishy tissue and it is not confined by erectile tissue and it can balloon up with blood when a woman is getting turned on. And so you've got the clitoris, you've got the clitoral bulbs and the lady menorah. And that is called, and I'm not kidding you, the axis of arou. Which the trifecta of pleasure, triad of sex sparkles. I actually made it that last one myself. The triad of sex sparkles. Sex sparkles. it?
Meags:I like it a lot.
Drea:You're like, let's, let's go work on that triad of sex sparkles, Okay, so now I'm glad you guys are so entertained by this cuz I have a little more ads to add to it, which has nothing to do. Well it only has a little bit to do with it cuz it has to do with another podcast. I was telling you guys about the, the one with the, the fish up the vagina. I don't know, but it's not about the fish, it's about like, so way back in the medieval times the Catholic church, you know, they were all up into people's business and they like to make shit up to Pey people line. So, uh, one of the things that they made up was this idea that sex is just intercourse between a man and a. And they made up that God commanded that any other type of sex wa that didn't result in babies didn't count. So you weren't supposed to do it. And so anything you did sexually pleasurable, like with yourself or someone else, and like, and we're talking hand jobs, blowjobs, finger fucking self-love, licky love, butt love, we're all, they're all considered so, all of it. So it. wasn't just, yeah, it wasn't just like, you know, and so, and it also like, it could be man on man, man on woman, woman on woman, non-bar, non-binary, on non-binary. It didn't matter. Like you just weren't supposed to be doing those things with anybody else. So like so they also, but this is also really interesting. So they believe that, but they also believe that men and women, The way that babies are made is that they, I'm sorry, sunshine's helping out. I also Believe that they carried seeds in their bodies, both the men and the women, and that they both needed to be ejected at the same time to sprout a baby, right? So the only way for the man and the woman to sprout their seats was to both have their cl both climax. So like it was required that women had orgasms along with the men. So I thought that was really interesting.
Lisa:Well, that's interesting. That's actually a good thing right there. That's.
Drea:I know, I know.
Meags:I don't like being told what to do. I don't think that's a good thing. Okay.
Drea:well,
Lisa:Well, they're encouraging the man. They're encouraging the man to pleasure the woman that the woman also succumbed the climax to have babies. So that's a requirement. That's not
Drea:is, it is. So but I guess on the flip side of that, like I was reading the book, thank you, Megan, for bringing for mentioning it to me, this guide to getting it on and I that I learned in a survey that women, more than 85% of the ladies. Do not have orgasms from thrusting alone. So already the Catholic church is creating a paradox, right? So you can't add more stimuli than a penis thrusting. But how is a woman gonna release her seed if she can't have an orgasm, right? So like, you gotta be able to do these other things, like how else is she gonna do it? So it's not so easy. You can't just, you know, you can't just have the man like thrusting. So first of all, like the amount of simulation that a woman needs is to have an orga orgasm really has nothing to do with the how much she likes sex. So everyone orgasms differently and some orgasms are about arousing the clitoris and some are about arousing the G-spot and some include both. And so we're gonna try to tell the Catholic church from the medieval times what actually has to happen, where the seeds pop out. And so, oh, any questions by the way? Any questions? Any questions?
Carey:I feel like I'm familiar with vaginas,
Lisa:Thank you. Thank you, Carrie
Kathy:Like I can be excused from this discussion. I already know.
Drea:you can tell us.
Meags:Them the extra credit work.
Drea:That's right.
Carey:how this shit works.
Drea:Yes. And so you also know that women need more than just the physical stimulation. They also need emotional stimulation, which is one of those things that, you know, doesn't, doesn't, not everybody is appreciative of. So I guess like some of the things that do matter are your hormones. So like if you're on an s S R I, like we just talked about and carries podcasts about mental hospitals, if you guys wanna know more about that topic. And if you're on one of those in hormonal birth control, you might not have a libido at all, which is super psycho, think very hard to have an orgasm. And so but I liked actually this explanation of what, why, like, Hormones like a male hormones and female hormones, or how they work differently. And so this is from the guide to getting it on. Think of the neurology of male or orgasms as being like a superhighway from the penis to the brain. While female orgasms are more like tributaries that flow from different parts of a woman's entire body to her brain, it's testosterone that gives males this superhighway in estrogen that gives women their tributaries, which I had never really thought of it that way, but I
Carey:Right. Interesting. Yeah.
Lisa:So that reminds me of something that was told to me in high school at my Catholic high school.
Meags:Oh
Lisa:So about like the se, you know, just the sexual arousal. How for a man, it's like a microwave for a woman. It's like a crockpot.
Drea:I saw that in an article.
Carey:I don't understand.
Lisa:That's what I was told. I was like, what? And it makes sense. I mean, when you think about it, a guy is ready to go like that. A woman needs a
Carey:Oh, gotcha.
Lisa:a little more work
Kathy:Warming up.
Lisa:to go. What?
Drea:know?
Kathy:A woman needs more warming up.
Lisa:Yes, exactly.
Drea:Yeah. You know, they didn't teach us anything like that in public school.
Lisa:Me at Catholic school is where it's at.
Kathy:just had to watch the videos about how you can go swimming or horseback riding when you have your period.
Carey:I think I remember those
Lisa:I don't remember that one. I won't. I had to argue by way to use tampon so I could go swimming during my period. That was a, that was about 14 with my mother. That was fun.
Drea:Oh my gosh. Well, Azala will die when she hears that. I told you guys this, but when she was in high school, she wanted to like, she wanted to do tampons and she was kind of asking me about it and, but she didn't wanna talk to me about it. And so I was like, well, I'm gonna take you to a gynecologist and they can help you with this And so we did it and we were there and I had to be in the room, but I wasn't looking. And then, And then, and then Zla, like a, oh, I don't know, a couple of weeks later, she was like, and I need to use tampons, and you didn't help me at all. And I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How many moms do you know they're gonna schedule an appointment with a fucking gynecologist so their kid can learn how to use a tampon? Not many. Not many. So then I was like, go talk to your friends. They're the people that help you with this shit.
Meags:What friends are for
Drea:Exactly. And that's what she did. So okay. I'm sorry. Good digression. Lisa Tampons. They're the best.
Lisa:they're.
Drea:Yes they are. So alright, so we've got the hormones and now we've got our nerves and this is really cool. male san tissue sensation is transmitted through one set of nerves while the women's is transmitted through. Four major nerves. So we've got the pandol I, I'm just gonna keep going. Hypo, hypoblastic, pelvic and vagus, and our top. on top of two different types of nerd or two different types of nerd fibers. They're somatic and visceral and they both sens sensations to brain. And so some of, so that's why some of our orgasms may be like really intense and localized and others are deeper and more throbbing because we have all these different types of nerves that are coming back and forth and like communicating these things. And so, really, We are super lucky, like guys only get one kind of orgasm. We get lots of different kinds of orgasms and and then, you know, they can come in all kinds of combinations, right? So like, and this actually made me think, and I don't know, what do you guys think of this? It's like, you know, when you're talking about like getting on my nerves, like, oh man, you're getting on my nerves. Like, puts a totally new meaning on that, getting on my nerves.
Lisa:There you go,
Drea:I see you smiling Kathy So, all right. And so then finally, like kind of this last component of your for your well, not the last component, one of the other components is that we've got this real, like, Orchestra as sexual reactive structures. So if you think about it, like we talked about all the different pieces of your, of your reproductive system, and we have got. The body of and the legs of the clitoris. We've got the CLER bulbs, we've got the ure urethral tissues, the cervix, the halens plexus, which I didn't even go into. The tip of the clitoris, the labia minora and the vestibule of the vulva. Those are also things I didn't go into. So like all of these things get turned on, and then not only can you have like all the different nerd types of nerds, you have all these different. Aspects of your, your organs. And so then you could have like this whole variety of orgasms like we were talking about, like, you know, and, and it can come in any kind of combination, which is really fucking cool, you know what I'm saying? Like, and you know, you can have a bazillion of them and you can have like different kinds like mix and match. I mean, I just, I'm like, this is, it's kinda badass. I, I dunno, don't you.
Meags:Kinda
Carey:Like, yeah,
Meags:if, if only they told us
Drea:Carrie's like, Carrie's like, I know all this shit.
Meags:Yeah.
Drea:Why didn't you? Just me for q a?
Lisa:Right. Carrie, we should certify you as an expert for this
Drea:So.
Carey:Might listen to this one,
Drea:What?
Lisa:What?
Carey:to this one.
Meags:You, you know, it is badass, but at the same time, it makes me a little bit sad cuz it's yet another area where, like, our women's bodies are amazing, but nobody ever tells us,
Carey:Yeah,
Meags:ever explains to us like, oh, you know, you could do all these different things other than letting that teenage boy hump you like, you know, a lost dog. Like, you know. It would be, it's just so sad to me how little information we give to women about their sexuality. And this is like just like another highlight. Like, I've never heard that I'm nine years old. Why am I never heard this all now? Like, what is happening?
Drea:See.
Meags:I'm glad to eat So good that you're sharing this information. I
Drea:I know you guys were all like, you know, prudish about it earlier and you're like, oh, I've got all these different kind of nerves. All the care already knew, but now we all know, all the straight ladies know so, so we all need, we all need classes. Okay, so then the last thing about the orgasms I go into is like, and of course you guys all know this and actually this is something that does. More than any of this other kind of like biological stuff is that your mental state matters, right? So like you need to be receptive to the stimulation and there are, you know, there are like all kinds of shit about what turns women on. But like, you know, to me personally, I feel like, you know, we have of course the emotional piece, but like really the most important things are like if you're boiling it down or like feeling heard and desired and connected, like to me, at the end of the day, that's what I think. And so That's my trifecta on top of the other trifecta. But I have a question for you guys. Like what do you, what does it mean for y'all? Like what, what are the kinds, and not specifically, but like ki what are the kinds of things do you feel you need to help put you in the mood to be amorous?
Meags:You know, lack of children close.
Lisa:I was thinking the same thing,
Meags:Would, would go like high towards the top of the list
Lisa:It's children outta the house. Yeah,
Meags:Like that's,
Lisa:turns me on right there.
Drea:Well, they did say sleep for I they were definitely, they were definitely like speaking to middle-aged women. You, you need your sleep, you need your
Meags:I was gonna say being well rested,
Drea:Yes.
Meags:like I'm much more receptive to everything when I'm well rested. So like that's that cover that
Carey:have the day off the next day. Yeah.
Meags:Exactly. Exactly.
Drea:Also some things that like if your, your spouse does nice things for you, like, especially the thing they were talking about specifically was help with housework. I mean, it sounds ridiculous, but you know, you come home and then you're the one that's responsible for making dinner and doing the laundry and this and that, and then
Lisa:Yeah. I mean, Joe, he helps me with, he does stuff on his, I mean, he does that on a semi-regular basis, but when he does the extra stuff that I'm usually expected to do that, yes, that does help
Drea:It makes you more receptive,
Lisa:It's so sad that that's what it takes now at this age. It's like, you know, when we first met, it definitely didn't do it. Now that I'm like, you know, we've been married for 17 years. Hell yeah.
Drea:Yeah. So I don't know. Any other thoughts on it?
Carey:No very.
Drea:No. All right. Well, I guess the last thing I would, oh, there are a couple of things. So now we can explain to this, the Catholic Church, why. Women need, you know, like how they need help popping out their seeds. So we just need a little mid medieval sodomy, I think
Lisa:Are you gonna go do a little time travel to medieval times and explain these things to him?
Drea:No, they don't speak the same language. We're just
Lisa:Yeah. Well, and they'd probably hang you as a witch, so you probably won't
Drea:That's true. That's true. So, and then, oh, I will tell you one last thing cuz like, actually one of the things I had been thinking about was why do we orgasm at all? Like, you don't really have to, to have babies and stuff like that. And so people have obviously been thinking about this, like, why do, why do they have to orgasm? And the, the only theory that I found was that maybe possibly way back when. The females had to actually, it was like what the Catholics were saying. It's like you had to have an orgasm to pop out your egg for the sperm to get to. And so, you know, like, and that could have been part of
Lisa:Yeah, I mean, I thought just way back when we were trying to conceive that it. Supposedly orgasms help the sperm get to the egg. I thought that was a theory. I don't know if it's true.
Kathy:Maybe like actions and stuff might, you know, help pull it in, right.
Lisa:Yeah.
Drea:I, definitely, oh, go on.
Meags:I was just gonna say like, I'm wondering again, again, physical versus social evolution. I'm wondering whether our ancestors who had orgasms were the happier people who lived longer, who reproduced more.
Lisa:Right. Had more
Drea:Oh
Meags:those jeans kept coming, and the frigid ones who were not into any of that, those jeans fell by the wayside. that's, that's I, that would be my deposition.
Lisa:Well, that's what I was saying. I'm like, you wanna have an or? So they'll wanna have sex again, right? I mean, and you enjoy it. You wanna do it again,
Kathy:Right. I would assume that more likelihood of having babies if it's,
Meags:Well, and the more babies you have, the more of your genes get out there in the world.
Lisa:right.
Drea:Well, also, like if you're aroused, like you're I mean, I didn't, I obviously, I didn't go into all the details. you're excited, you wanna be there and be doing this thing. So I know that didn't really say very, it didn't really sound very good, but the rest
Lisa:We know what you meant.
Drea:Yeah. You know what I meant? so so that's it. That's what I've got for you guys today.
Carey:Well, thanks Andrea. That was very
Lisa:you,
Drea:Thank you. I mean, Carrie is our
Carey:I, no, I did stuff.
Drea:What did you learn?
Carey:I'll, I'll report back to you on the effectiveness.
Lisa:She's gonna test out her new, new knowledge.
Meags:Knowledge. Knowledge is power.
Drea:Yeah. I have to tell you, those deaf vaginas are really interesting to me. When that was like one of the first things I found. I was like, what? They've got spiral vaginas, It's just crazy. But they did that really to, they did that to, to, it was like a battle of the sexes, right. Like if a boy was forcing, you know, like a male Jack is forcing himself on her. She's like, fuck you, I'm not gonna
Carey:right. Screw up
Drea:yeah. Like, good luck. Your sperm in me, so,
Carey:All right guys. That was awesome.
Meags:Thanks, Dre.
Lisa:great.
Drea:You're welcome. Okay. Uh, I don't Have anything. All right. Bye guys.
Meags:Bye
Carey:Bye.