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Season 3, Episode 4: "Do I Have Undiagnosed Adult ADHD?" For transcripts click here   Please support our show! Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Support the pod on Delco Gives Day, May 8–9! delcogives.org   Find our fabulous merch and a link to donate – www.reallyweirdquestion.com! Show Notes: Carnal Knowledge, Rebecca’s newsletter: https://rebeccaldavisphdgmailcom.substack.com/ Medical Sources https://www.jabfm.org/content/34/4/741.long https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10173356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10173330/ Historical Sources Mayes, Rick, and Adam Rafalovich. “Suffer the Restless Children: The Evolution of ADHD and Paediatric Stimulant Use, 1900-80: History of Psychiatry.” History of Psychiatry 18, no. 4 (2007): 435–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X06075782. Smith, Matthew. Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD. London: Reaktion, 2013. Weinstein, Deborah. The Pathological Family: Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/early-history-autism-america-180957684/  

Season 3, Episode 3: "Can I Trust My Psychiatrist?" with guest Katie Dalke, MD For transcripts click here   Please support our show! Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Every purchase of RWQ merch also helps support our show!    Show Notes:  Carnal Knowledge, Rebecca’s newsletter: https://rebeccaldavisphdgmailcom.substack.com/ National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center: https://www.lgbtqiahealtheducation.org/

Season 3, Episode 2: "Should I Curate Porn for My Teenager?" For transcripts click here   Please support our show! Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Every purchase of RWQ merch also helps support our show!    Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to our podcast–and tell your friends about us!   Resources: Sex-Positive Families Common Sense Media Society for adolescent health and medicine  Learning More from Adolescence On-Line (LMFAO) https://www.pediatrics.wisc.edu/research/research-groups/lmfao-selkie/ B3study.org Scarleteen: sex ed for the real world Bare Bodies: Reality Checking Mainstream Porn: https://www.scarleteen.com/article/politics_sexual_identity_sexuality/bare_bodies_reality_checking_mainstream_porn_part_one Sex On Screen: reality Checking Mainstream Porn: https://www.scarleteen.com/article/politics_sexual_identity_sexuality/sex_on_screen_realitychecking_mainstream_porn  Jeffrey Moran, Teaching Sex

Season 3, Episode 1: "Is Porn Bad For Your Health?" **CONTENT WARNING** This episode contains talk about violence, rape, sex trafficking, child pornography, and racism. Please listen with care.  For transcripts click here   Please support our show! Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Every purchase of RWQ merch also helps support our show!    Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to our podcast–and tell your friends about us!     References Sniewski et al. The assessment and treatment of adult heterosexual men with self-perceived problematic pornography use: A review, Addictive Behaviors, Volume 77, 2018.  Pages 217-224 Hook, J. N., Farrell, J. E., Davis, D. E., Van Tongeren, D. R., Griffin, B. J., Grubbs, J., ... & Bedics, J. D. (2015). Self-forgiveness and hypersexual behavior. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 22(1), 59-70. Fritz, N., Malic, V., Paul, B. et al. Worse Than Objects: The Depiction of Black Women and Men and Their Sexual Relationship in Pornography. Gend. Issues 38, 100–120 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12147-020-09255-2 Dwulit AD, Rzymski P. The Potential Associations of Pornography Use with Sexual Dysfunctions: An Integrative Literature Review of Observational Studies. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2019; 8(7):914. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm8070914 Hakkim S, Parsa AD, Arafat SMY, et al. Pornography—Is It Good for Sexual Health? A Systematic Review. Journal of Psychosexual Health. 2022;4(2):111-122. doi:10.1177/26318318221088949

Season 2, Episode 8: "Why Would I Need A Living Will?" with guest Kelli Dunham For transcripts click here   To learn more about our amazing guest, Kelli Dunham, her comedy, workshops, and her work visit: Kellidunham.com   Please support our show! Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Every purchase of RWQ merch also helps support our show!    Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to our podcast–and tell your friends about us!      

Season 2, Episode 7: "Could This Be Menopause?" For transcripts click here:   Please support our show! Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Every purchase of RWQ merch also helps support our show!    Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to our podcast–and tell your friends about us!   Show Notes: Www.menopause.org, The North American Menopause Society Jen Gunter, The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism (Citadel, 2021) Judith A. Houk, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2006)  

Season 2 - September Mini Episode: Spreading Queer Joy with Dr. Sami Schalk   Show notes: To learn more about Dr. Sami Schalk, visit her website: http://samischalk.com/ She gave shout-outs to… Freedom, Inc., https://freedom-inc.org/  GSafe in Wisconsin, https://gsafewi.org/  Outreach Madison, https://www.outreachmadisonlgbt.org/  Dana Pellebon, director of the Rape Crisis Center in Madison, WI, https://www.thercc.org/staff-bios/dana-pellebon

Season 2, Episode 6: "What Are You Doing For Pride?" For transcripts, follow the link here   Please support our show! Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Every purchase of RWQ merch also helps support our show!    Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts–and tell your friends about us!   Show Notes: Documentary of the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march, from Gay and Proud, by Lilli Vincenz, 1970, Library of Congress Video of Christopher Street Liberation Day participants debating the exclusion of Sylvia Rivera from speaking at the march in 1973. With Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970.   Stonewall: David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution (2004) Marc Stein, The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (2019) Martin Duberman, Stonewall (1993)   Pride: Library of Congress, History of Pride; Pride at 50 Organizational history of NYC Pride (NYC organization that organizes NYC’s Pride March)

Special Mini-Episode: Spreading Queer Joy with Susan Stryker For transcripts, follow the link here   Please support our show! Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Every purchase of RWQ merch also helps support our show!    Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts–and tell your friends about us!

Season 2, Episode 5: "I Keep Hearing About Ketamine Therapy. Should I Try It..." with special guest: Susan Stryker For transcripts, follow the link here   Please support our show! Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Every purchase of RWQ merch also helps support our show!    Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts–and tell your friends about us!   Show Notes: (Coming Soon)

Season 2, Episode 4: "Can Anyone Tell If I'm A Virgin..." For transcripts, follow the link here   Please support our show! Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Every purchase of RWQ merch also helps support our show!    Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts–and tell your friends about us!   Show Notes:  Huge shout out to Mercury Stardust (https://mercurystardust.com/merctree), Jory (@alluringskull), and Point of Pride (https://www.pointofpride.org/about) who raised over $2 MILLION during a 30hr live stream / Tik-Tok-A-Thon to support gender-affirming care at the end of March! Historical Sources Blank, Hanne. Virgin: The Untouched History. Bloomsbury Press, 2007. Moslener, Sara. Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Reinarz, Jonathan. Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell. University of Illinois Press, 2014. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt7zw5zg. Rodriguez, Sara. "Restoring 'Virginal Conditions' and Reinstating the 'Normal': Episiotomy in 1920," in Heterosexual Histories, Rebecca Davis and Michele Mitchell, eds. (New York University Press, 2021), 303-330.   Medical References Rosa M. Laterza, Mario De Gennaro, Andrea Tubaro, Heinz Koelbl.  Female pelvic congenital malformations. Part I: embryology, anatomy and surgical treatment.  European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Volume 159, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-34, Scarleteen https://www.scarleteen.com/ Jen Gunter’s Twitter thread about hymens/virginity: https://twitter.com/DrJenGunter/status/1192143613947457537?s=20 Moussaoui, D., Abdulcadir, J. and Yaron, M. (2022), Hymen and virginity: What every paediatrician should know. J Paediatr Child Health, 58: 382-387. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1111/jpc.15887 https://www.who.int/news/item/17-10-2018-united-nations-agencies-call-for-ban-on-virginity-testing Olson RM, García-Moreno C. Virginity testing: a systematic review. Reprod Health. 2017 May 18;14(1):61. doi: 10.1186/s12978-017-0319-0. PMID: 28521813; PMCID: PMC5437416.

Season 2, Episode 3: "What's That Smell?" For transcripts, follow the link here   Please support our show!   Please consider a tax-deductible donation to our podcast via the Foundation for Delaware County, a 501c3 organization.   Every purchase of RWQ merch also helps support our show!    Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts–and tell your friends about us!   Medical References Egan ME, Lipsky MS. Diagnosis of vaginitis. Am Fam Physician. 2000 Sep 1;62(5):1095-104. PMID: 10997533. del Mármol, J., Yedlin, M.A. & Ruta, V. The structural basis of odorant recognition in insect olfactory receptors. Nature 597, 126–131 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03794-8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snJnO6OpjCs Dr. Jen Gunter’s blog https://vajenda.substack.com/   Historical References Farmer, Ashley D. Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Kettler, Andrew. “Race, Nose, Truth: Dystopian Odours of the Other in American Antebellum Consciousness.” Patterns of Prejudice 55, no. 1 (2021): 1–24. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2021.1898811. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company. [Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and other remedies]. [Ephemera]. 11779.F. Available through: Adam Matthew, Marlborough. Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900, http://www.popularmedicine.amdigital.co.uk.udel.idm.oclc.org/Documents/Details/PM_11779_F_7 [Accessed January 31, 2023]. C. 1876 Reinarz, Jonathan. Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell. Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Season 2, Episode 2.5: Mini-Episode with Mercury Stardust Find the transcript here.   Join us for the first in a series of bonus mini-episodes where we chat with people sharing queer joy! 

Season 2, Episode 2: "Am I Intersex?" with special guest: Elizabeth Reis For transcripts, follow the link here:   Show notes:  Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (John Hopkins Univ. Press, updated edition 2021) Georgiann Davis, Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis (NYU Press, 2015) Katrina Karkazis, Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience (Duke Univ. Press, 2008) Hida Viliora, Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hatchette Books, 2017) Kimberly Zieselman, XOXY: A Memoir (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020) Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, 2nd ed. Stephanie Lohman and Eric Lohman, Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018) Sharon Preves, Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003)   Hans Lindahl (hanslindahl.com) Pidgeon Pagonis (http://pid.ge/) Sean Saifa Wall on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dJduGC3HyQ&t=127s and (https://www.seansaifa.com/)

Season 2, Episode 1: "Am I asexual, or do I have a sexual dysfunction..." For transcripts, follow the link here:   Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) Corp, Isabel. “14 Asexual Anthems to Listen to on February 14.” Them.us, February 11, 2021. Irvine, Janice M. Disorders of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Modern American Sexology. Rev. and Expanded ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. For complete show notes and resources, please head to our website.

Episode 6: "This Is Because I'm Fat, Right?" For transcripts, follow the link here   Show Notes: Medical Research 7 Ways to Uproot Your Anti-Fat Bias by Aubrey Gordon  Tomiyama, A., Carr, D., Granberg, E. et al. How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health. BMC Med 16, 123 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5 Phelan SM, Burgess DJ, Puhl RM, et al. The adverse effect of weight stigma on the well-being of medical students with overweight or obesity: findings from a national survey. J Gen Intern Med. 2015;30(9):1251–8. First Do No Harm: stories of fat predjudice in healthcare When Doctors Body Shame Their Patients – It’s a fricking Cosmo article, but the anecdotes are powerful.  Haqq AM, Kebbe M, Tan Q, Manco M, Salas XR. Complexity and Stigma of Pediatric Obesity. Child Obes. 2021 Jun;17(4):229-240. doi: 10.1089/chi.2021.0003. Epub 2021 Mar 29. PMID: 33780639; PMCID: PMC8147499. Incollingo Rodriguez, A.C., Smieszek, S.M., Nippert, K.E. et al. Pregnant and postpartum women’s experiences of weight stigma in healthcare. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 20, 499 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03202-5 Ives GC, Fein LA, Finch L, Sluiter EC, Lane M, Kuzon WM, Salgado CJ. Evaluation of BMI as a Risk Factor for Complications following Gender-affirming Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2019 Mar 13;7(3):e2097. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000002097. PMID: 31044103; PMCID: PMC6467628. https://naafa.org/community-voices/fat-self-care Maintenance Phase Podcast Episode on the BMI: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1411126?client_source=large_player&iframe=true&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F1411126%2Fpodcast%2Fembed# Historical Sources   Altman, Claire E., Jennifer Van Hook, and Jonathan Gonzalez. “Becoming Overweight without Gaining a Pound: Weight Evaluations and the Social Integration of Mexicans in the United States.” International Migration Review 51, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 3–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12220. Parr, Jessica M. “Obesity and the Emergence of Mutual Aid Groups for Weight Loss in the Post-War United States.” Social History of Medicine 27, no. 4 (2014): 768–88. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hku020. Rasmussen, Nicolas. “Downsizing Obesity: On Ancel Keys, the Origins of BMI, and the Neglect of Excess Weight as a Health Hazard in the United States from the 1950s to 1970s.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 55, no. 4 (October 2019): 299–318. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21991. Strings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Additional Resources: Thebodyisnotanapology.com https://www.iamannachapman.com/fat-selfcare-tips https://naafa.org/ https://asdah.org/health-at-every-size-haes-approach/ https://theadipositivityproject.zenfolio.com/about.html http://stacybias.net/ https://www.aubreygordon.net/ https://nolose.org/ http://www.kellidunham.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/YOU-DONT-HAVE-TO-LOVE-YOUR-BODY-TO-TAKE-CARE-OF-IT-FOR-DOWNLOAD.pdf https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-to-do-about-fat-shaming-doctors_n_5ba9604ee4b0181540dfd54d

Season 1 - Episode 5: "Is the Turkey Baster Thing Real..." For transcripts, follow the link here   Show Notes:   Health-related links: The Longest Shortest Time Episode 153: https://longestshortesttime.com/episode-153-sperm-shopping-by-color/ Lambda Legal:  https://www.lambdalegal.org/states-regions/in-your-state?gclid=CJDu1q-55dICFUO5wAodlCEB3w Williams Institute: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Same-Sex-Parents-Jul-2018.pdf Family Equality (2019) LGBTQ Family Building Survey. https://www.familyequality.org/fbs  Carone, N., Gartrell, N.K., Rothblum, E.D., Koh, A.S., & Bos, H.M.W. (2021) The Stability of Psychological Adjustment Among Donor-conceived Offspring in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study from Childhood to Adulthood: Differences by Donor Type, Fertility and Sterility, 115(5), 1302–1311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2020.12.012 National Survey of Children’s Health: https://www.childhealthdata.org/learn-about-the-nsch/archive-prior-year-data-documents-and-resources/2011-12-nsch Stephanie Berman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0NNN-5SSbM “Turkey-Baster Baby”: https://open.spotify.com/track/1GMK8sajViuODG58vfk3uh    Historical sources: Daniels, Cynthia R, and Janet Golden. "Procreative Compounds: Popular Eugenics, Artificial Insemination and the Rise of the American Sperm Banking Industry." Journal of Social History 38, no. 1 (2004): 5-27. doi:10.1353/jsh.2004.0081.  May, Elaine Tyler. Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness. New York: BasicBooks, 1995. “‘Proxy Baby,” News- week 55 (May 30, 1960): 80–81. Richards, Martin. “Artificial Insemination and Eugenics: Celibate Motherhood, Eutelegenesis and Germinal Choice.” Studies in History & Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences 39, no. 2 (June 2008): 211–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2008.03.005. Tallon-Hicks, Yana. “Starter Kit: Baby-making just got intimate.” Deneuve: the Lesbian Magazine (April 2013), 15.  “Test-Tube Test Case.” Time 64 (December 27, 1954): 52. “Use of artificial insemination increasing” (AP), The News Tribune (Tacoma, Was.), December 5, 1978, p. 11.

Season 1 - Episode 4: "Can I Get Pregnant If.." For transcripts, follow the link here   Show Notes: Health related links: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7447942.stm http://www.drmomma.org/2008/06/human-ovulation-clearly-photographed.html www.dodsonandross.com ​ Historical sources: Brodie, Janet Farrell. Contraception and Abortion in 19th-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Cobb, M. “An Amazing 10 Years: The Discovery of Egg and Sperm in the 17th Century.” Reproduction in Domestic Animals 47, no. 4: 2–6. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0531.2012.02105. Horowitz, Maryanne Cline. “The ‘Science’ of Embryology Before the Discovery of the Ovum.” In Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present, edited by  Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, 2nd ed., 104–12. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Martin, Emily. “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles.” Signs 16, no. 3 (1991): 485–501.      

Season 1 - Episode 3: "How Do I Know If I'm Trans...? Part 2" For transcripts please follow the link here Want to support our show? Visit our website, www.reallyweirdquestion.com, to make a fully tax-deductible donation, and don’t forget to check out our merch!  On our website, you’ll also find information about how you can subscribe to our free monthly newsletter, resources to learn more about LGBTQ+ health and history, and a rough transcript of the episode. Show Notes: Ainsworth, C. Sex redefined. Nature 518, 288–291 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/518288a APA’s statement on gender dysphoria in the DSM: https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Psychiatrists/Practice/DSM/APA_DSM-5-Gender-Dysphoria.pdf Meyerowitz, Joanne J. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. Stryker, Susan. Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution. New York: Seal Press, 2017.    

Season 1 - Episode 2: "How Do I Know If I'm Trans... Part 2" For transcripts, please follow the link here Want to support our show? Visit our website, www.reallyweirdquestion.com, to make a fully tax-deductible donation, and don’t forget to check out our merch!  On our website, you’ll also find information about how you can subscribe to our free monthly newsletter, resources to learn more about LGBTQ+ health and history, and a rough transcript of the episode. Health-related resources: ​Dara Hoffman Fox (LPC and Gender Therapist) https://darahoffmanfox.com/ Meystre-Agustoni, G. Talking about sexuality with the physician: are patients receiving what they wish?  Swiss Med Wkly. 2011;141:w13178 2015 US Trans Survey reports: https://www.ustranssurvey.org/reports 2022 US Trans Survey: https://www.ustranssurvey.org/ Historical sources: ​Peter Boag, Re-Dressing the America’s Frontier Past (University of California Press, 2011) Scott Larson, “‘Indescribable Being’: Theological Performances of Genderlessness in the Society of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776–1819.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12, no. 3 (2014): 576–600.     https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2014.0020. Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002) Susan Stryker, Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (Basic Books, 2017)