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In this last episode before a much needed rest, Jessy and Rebekah talk all about our friend the nipple! We learned a ton about nipples and even found out about the strongest nipples in all the land! It has been awesome talking to you all for the past 2.5 years and…we’ll see ya….sometime down the line. Xxx 03:40: William Featherstone Montgomery looks exactly as I would have imagined. Also, he died in Dublin in 1859 so, unless he was hermetically sealed and then reanimated he is most assuredly dead. 06:15: So this extra booby is actually called an “accessory breast,” sort of like a handbag or a really cool bracelet! I found a reference to it in this journal of plastic surgery. 08:10: Check out this very informative (and maybe a tad bit confusing) article from Scientific American! 11:15: HAVE NO FEAR! The Great Nippulini has his very own website! But it isn’t actually his website, it is a website for his nipples. Contact us! Watch us! Love us! Support us at glow! Check out our new Medium page! Email: [email protected] Instagram: @welcometomyvagina Twitter: @welcometomyvag Jessy’s awesome YouTube videos! She’s crushing it Welcome to My Vagina HQ Rebekah’s blog! Get your own amazing theme song made by @woollywillie Our great producer Cait and all the other awesome projects by morebanana_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TW: Sexual violence and rape. In this episode, Jessy and Rebekah speak with Annie who was raped when she was in college and who, despite doing all the “right” things after her attack was still unable to achieve justice through our system. Just a note, if you feel you might get triggered by this content, please skip over. It is important to us that you take care of yourself. And if you have been raped or assaulted and need help, please call the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at (800)-656-HOPE (4673). By calling this number you will be routed to a local RAINN-affiliated organization based off the first six digits of your phone number. Cell phone users have the option to enter their ZIP code so they can be connected with a local sexual assault service provider. 08:45: According to RAINN, 1 out of every 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. Among graduate and undergraduate students, 11.2% of all students experience rape or sexual assault through violence, physical force or incapacitation. 09:30: Here is a document created by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault in April 2014. It explains what a victim advocate is as well as what other services should be offered to students who are victims of sexual violence on campus. 10:00: Here is an article from The Atlantic that talks about how to rape kit backlog has meant that thousands of rapists have gone unfound – some of them serial predators. Women were put through the terror and discomfort of doing a rape kit and oftentimes they are never tested. They just sit in warehouses and rot. 13:00: Here is “an updated definition of rape” from the archives of the Department of Justice, published January 6, 2012. In it, the DOJ makes considerations for incapacitation due to alcohol ingestion when it says, “because many rapes are facilitated by drugs or alcohol, the new definition recognizes that a victim can be incapacitated and thus unable to consent because of ingestion of drugs or alcohol.” 18:10: Here is a one-stop shop for the information about Title IX. There have been a lot of changes since Tr*mp took office and put Betsy DeVos in charge of the education department. Unsurprisingly none of those changes have been good. Contact us! Watch us! Love us! Support us at glow! Check out our new Medium page! Email: [email protected] Instagram: @welcometomyvagina Twitter: @welcometomyvag Jessy’s awesome YouTube videos! She’s crushing it Welcome to My Vagina HQ Rebekah’s blog! Get your own amazing theme song made by @woollywillie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are still recording from home! Which looks like us each recording in make-shift studios – in closets, under blankets – and FaceTiming so we get that real in person feel. It was so hot in our at-home studios. But, it’s all good. This is what we do for you. Because we love you. Another thing we do is spend the morning researching the history of vajazzling! So, enjoy! And don’t forget to donate to us at glow.fm/welcometomyvagina! 01:15: “The TikTok thing with the kids” is a clear indication that Rebekah does not use TikTok and is not a kid. She is an old. 06:00: Officially obsessed with the Face To Face NYC website. Here is their complete waxing menu, including the “Marble Sac with Shaft.” 07:00: FYI Jennifer Love Hewitt’s book, The Day I Shot Cupid, was a NYTimes Best Seller. You can buy it here. 07:15: My super sleuth skills tell me that this book was written after her split from Jamie Kennedy, a stand-up comic who I personally had not heard of until right this moment. 08:00: Here is Jennifer Love Hewitt talking about vajazzling on Lopez Tonight. It is….really something. 09:00: So, real quick, Urban Dictionary has a definition of the term “vagina buffet” which is as follows: “A time at which one eats as much vagina as humanly possible and finished it off with a big, hearty mug of ‘gina juice.” Also, you can buy Vagina Buffet: Bite Size Tales of a Brazilian Waxer here. 12:46: Here is the article from The Cut where a lot of our vajazzle intel came from. And a link to Frances Goodman’s “Vajazzling Series.” 18:30: Here is a link to an article all about vagina stencils! Because you can’t look sad when your pubes look happy. 19:15: Betty Beauty: It’s Color for the Hair Down There! Contact us! Watch us! Love us! Support us at glow! Check out our new Medium page! Email: [email protected] Instagram: @welcometomyvagina Twitter: @welcometomyvag Jessy’s awesome YouTube videos! She’s crushing it Welcome to My Vagina HQ Rebekah’s blog! Get your own amazing theme song made by @woollywillie Our great producer Cait and all the other awesome projects by morebanana_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this weeks podcast, we talked about some pretty amazing women! Jessy will tell you all about the badass gender-bending blues singer Gladys Bentley, and Rebekah will introduce you to Kirsta Scruggs, a serious taste maker in the natural wine world! In lieu of all the usual notes, we are going to share with you some resources for things to read, places to donate and things to watch. We are living through a revolution, friends. Here is an AMAZING reading list by Victoria Alexander (you can find her on Twitter @victoriaalxndr): Anti-Racist Lit: Starter Kit: Stamped From the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo Anti-Racist Lit: Intermediate Kit The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America, Anders Walker The New Jim Crow: Mass Incareration in the Age of Color Blindness, Michelle Alexander The Condemnation of Blackness, Khalil Gibran Muhammad Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland, Jonathan M. Metzl A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Ronald Takaki How to be an Anti Racist, Ibram X. Kendi Anti-Racist Lit: Topic Specifics Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond: Everything Your American History Textbook got Wrong, Marc Lamont Hill Lies My Teachers Told Me, James W Loewen Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversation about Race, Beverley Daniel Tatum, PhD The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy, Darryl Pinckney Anti-Racist Lit: Biographies, Non- Fiction, Personal Narratives The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates Killing Rage, bell hooks Becoming, Michelle Obama The Black Lives Matters movement has put this amazing site together that has been shared pretty widely. But, sometimes we miss things! So, here it is! There are protest maps, petitions, places to donate (both with money and with time), a missing people thread, extra resources and more. Honestly, Black Lives Matters has been at this for A MINUTE and has used that time to put together a bunch of resources to make us as useful as we can possibly be. So, check it out, explore the site. As we said: there are so many different roles to be played here and they do not all involve being out on the streets protesting. So find out where you can be most useful. The only mistake you can make is not getting involved, whether that be through conversations with friends, donating money, whatever. Black lives matter.  Stay safe.  Love, Jessy and Rebekah  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We did not have wine before we recorded this intro. JK we had all the wine. But be sure to donate to us at glow.fm/welcometomyvagina so we can keep buying wine and bringing you this content that you so desperately need. On today’s episode, we spoke with Lola Jean and the Reluctant Sexpert all about kinks and fetishes and consent. Make sure to stick around until the end to hear us thoroughly offended about a listicle that we read.  05:00: Check out our interview on Is Our Love…? Podcast here! 05:30: In case you did not grow up in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s, here is a link to THE Double Mint Gum commercial for your listening pleasure. 05:45: And here is Lola Jean’s “Pass the Porn” project which works to bring ethical porn to the forefront rather than having people shamefully hiding their porn habit behind closed doors and incognito settings. 08:45: Here is a Wiki page about Cytherea in case you’re curious. She is known for her ability to ejaculate. Go Cytherea! 10:30: Here is the TimeOut announcement for the 2019 Kinky Carnival. This year’s event was sadly canceled due to this very, very rude pandemic. 24:00: The Violet’s webpage isn’t up and running, but here is an article from XBIZ all about their independent adult cinema that they presented at the Sex Expo here in NYC. Stay tuned for more events once we are allowed out in public again. 52:00: It was actually Molly Brenner who talked about wanting to have a rom com make our fast forward to brunch relationship. Contact us! Watch us! Love us! Support us at glow! Check out our new Medium page! Email: [email protected] Instagram: @welcometomyvagina Twitter: @welcometomyvag Jessy’s awesome YouTube videos! She’s crushing it Welcome to My Vagina HQ Rebekah’s blog! Get your own amazing theme song made by @woollywillie Our great producer Cait and all the other awesome projects by morebanana_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Jessy and Rebekah went LIVE….virtually. We did an Instagram Live sesh where we talked about body hair during the pandemic. No waxing? No shaving? No problem! This is a time where we can get back to our roots – no pun intended – and figure out what feels right to us without the input from society. Also, check us out on glow.fm/welcometomyvagina where you can purchase our AMAZING merchandise. We will be posting images this week on our Instagram so make sure to stay tuned for that! And without further adieu… 02:50: Yup, looks like our body odor DOES change during quarantine! According to this Vice article, our body odor is determined by the microbes that live on our skin. Those microbes are influenced by whoever we spend time around. When we engage in skin-to-skin contact with other people, we share our microbial community and therefore our odors are changed. Currently, the people we come in contact with has been severely diminished and therefore our personal microbial community, and therefore our body odor, has changed!  03:30: If you all want to support us currently and going forward – and score some amazing merchandise! – make sure to become a monthly subscriber on glow.fm/welcometomyvagina. We will be dropping a bonus episode every month for people who donate monthly at $5 or more! 06:45: Maybe Rebekah was thinking about this article by Dave Barry? Which we think is satire? 11:00: Here is the Amanda Mull article from The Atlantic that Jessy was referring to. 24:30:  At this point Jessy actually cut a bit of her hair. So, this is what you are missing by not coming to our live recordings. Credit to Hilla The Killa for the Body Hair song! Contact us! Watch us! Love us! Support us at glow! Check out our new Medium page! Email: [email protected] Instagram: @welcometomyvagina Twitter: @welcometomyvag Jessy’s awesome YouTube videos! She’s crushing it Welcome to My Vagina HQ Rebekah’s blog! Get your own amazing theme song made by @woollywillie Our great producer Cait and all the other awesome projects by morebanana_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick annoucement about exciting news!! Welcome To My Vagina will be contributing to Podapalooza! Podapalooza is a virtual podcast festival to raise money for COVID relief. Check out our episode out April 25th and find some new favorite podcasts in this incredible lineup. Donate and get your pass here: www.podapalooza.org  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before we get started, don’t forget to donate to us at glow.fm/welcometomyvagina. We have all sorts of rewards available (totes, t-shirts, tanks, underwear) AND all monthly subscribers will get access to extra exclusive content! What are you waiting for?! And now to get to the nitty gritty. Jessy started off with a VERY convincing presentation as to why hard boiled eggs are the best snacks and then we spent some time speaking with Lindsey Boylan who is running for the House of Representatives! WOW! Make sure to stick around to the end where we talk about where we would be if we could be anywhere in the world during this pandemic so make sure to stay tuned! 04:30: Meet Lindsey Boylan! She is running against Gerry Nadler for his seat representing the 10th Congressional District for the State of New York in the House of Representatives! 07:45: One issue that wasn’t addressed directly here that we want to highlight is the dangers facing the victims of domestic violence when stay-at-home orders are coupled with economic stressors. In the US, some precincts are reporting a 35% increase in DV calls, and that does not include those that go unreported, which is said to be at about 50% of total cases. You can read more about it in this article from The Intercept. 09:15: It appears as though people in the Nadler camp are very worried about Lindsey Boylan. Read about it in The Washington Post, Business Insider and Teen Vogue. 15:00: Ron Desantis is actually the governor of Florida and he is totally fucking this entire thing up. But the person Rebekah was thinking of is the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick who said that there are a lot of old people who would sacrifice themselves to open the economy up earlier and, essentially, that getting business rolling is more important than the loves of potentially hundreds of thousands of people. And he can say that because he himself is old. Read about it in this article from Vanity Fair. 20:45: We are, in fact, around the same age!  24:15: It is true, the yearly salary for members of Congress is $174,000. A number that has been unchanged since 2009, the same year as minimum wage was raised from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour. Just saying. 30:00: As of March 13th, the government was planning on kicking 700,000 people off SNAP benefits as per this Vox article. But, due to the coronavirus, a federal judge blocked Trump’s plan. That being said, people can’t use their SNAP benefits to purchase groceries online, which means that some of the most vulnerable in society are forced to go to a grocery store if they want to eat. 32:30: Important note: the Virginia legislature has flipped blue – Democratic governor, as well as a majority in the state House and Senate – which means it is something of a testing ground for how a lot of these progressive policy proposals will play out over time. 36:30: This is fun. The Washington Post has decided to label all women in Congress who have children under 18 as “working moms.” Anyway, the group has nearly doubled its number to 23. There are 21 serving in the House and 2 in the Senate. So, with 535 members between the House and the Senate, 4.5% of them are women with children under 18. Contact us! Watch us! Love us! Support us at glow! Check out our new Medium page! Email: [email protected] Instagram: @welcometomyvagina Twitter: @welcometomyvag Jessy’s awesome YouTube videos! She’s crushing it Welcome to My Vagina HQ Rebekah’s blog! Get your own amazing theme song made by @woollywillie Our great producer Cait and all the other awesome projects by morebanana_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Jessy and Rebekah interview Hallie Lieberman, author of the book Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy. She is an absolute wealth of knowledge and her upcoming book is all about gigolos! Seriously, you do not want to miss this episode. There is so much here! And make sure to stick around till the very end when we talk about dreams and who we want to have itchy buttholes for all time. 02:00: We just released an episode with the incredible Ashlie Atkinson a few weeks (or was it years?! back. Check it out here! 02:45: Check out @siptipsurvive where bartenders will be coming at you live Tuesday-Saturday! Have a drink and leave a tip! Or if you’re hurting too, just hang out! It’s a blast. 15:00: Normal Mailer was a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and is still considered an innovator of “creative non-fiction” alongside people like Truman Capote and Joan Didion. 16:30: Betty Dodson. Living legend. She created masturbation classes during which women sit naked in a room, learn about their bodies with a hand mirror and then explore, ultimately figuring out how to pleasure themselves. Dodson believes that women’s sexual pleasure and general empowerment are tied together and you cannot be empowered without true sexual liberation. 22:30: Rudolph Valentino died in 1926 at age 31! He was an Italian actor based in the United States and was considered the original “Latin lover.” He is SUPER interesting. You should check him out. 35:30: Check out Tom of Finland his art is AMAZING! 46:30: Here is a questionable accounting of Paul Snider AKA The Jewish Pimp. 47:30: Here is Hallie’s BuzzFeed article! And again, a link to her book through our favorite local book store Books are Magic! Contact us! Watch us! Love us! Support us at glow! Check out our new Medium page! Email: [email protected] Instagram: @welcometomyvagina Twitter: @welcometomyvag Jessy’s awesome YouTube videos! She’s crushing it Welcome to My Vagina HQ Rebekah’s blog! Get your own amazing theme song made by @woollywillie Our great producer Cait and all the other awesome projects by morebanana_ intro WTMV song by @woollywillie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episodes, Jessy and Rebekah talk about lady serial killers! But before we get started, make sure to donate to us at glow.fm/welcometomyvagina. We need your support now more than ever since we both just got laid off of our bar jobs due to the coronavirus outbreak! If you can spare a dollar or five, head on over to glow.fm/welcometomyvagina and become a supporter. Make sure to stick around until the end for a briefing on surplus killers in the animal kingdom! 02:30: Here is an article from Psychology Today that talks all about the racial breakdowns of serial killers – including the tendency for people to murder those within their racial groups.  02:40: Check out this serial killer database created by Radford University and Florida Gulf Coast University. It’s creepy! 05:35: Check out Sheila Isenberg’s Women Who Love Men Who Kill here or borrow it from your local library! 06:40: And also Lady Killers by Tori Telfer! 08:00: Want to learn more about Elizabeth Bathory? Check out our episode all about virginity and how it’s a BS social construct. 09:30: Check out this awesome blog called Rejected Princesses and specifically the episode on Bathory! 24:30: Actually, Rebekah was talking about The Black Dahlia Killer (I think? Maybe?) Although who knows because there was only one known victim – Elizabeth Short. 29:30: Lizzie Halliday was the first woman sentenced to death by the electric chair. She ended up having her sentence commuted and died in a mental hospital in June of 1918 36:00: Here is an article about the choices made at Charity Hospital in the days following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. 41:00: Extra weird fact! Ted Bundy married a woman named Carole Ann Boone who I guess in marriage became Carole Bundy but she was a completely different Carole Bundy than the one we talked about. HEAD EXPLOSION. Contact us! Watch us! Love us! Support us at glow! Check out our new Medium page! Email: [email protected] Instagram: @welcometomyvagina Twitter: @welcometomyvag Jessy’s awesome YouTube videos! She’s crushing it Welcome to My Vagina HQ Rebekah’s blog! Get your own amazing theme song made by @woollywillie Our great producer Cait and all the other awesome projects by morebanana_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices