Podcast appearances and mentions of Alice Dreger

                                Embark on a journey through logic, leadership, and the quest for intellectual diversity with Dr. Alan Davison on our latest podcast episode. It's time to challenge your perspectives. About Professor Alan Davison Alan heads up Heterodox Academy in Australia, promoting viewpoint diversity in our academic communities.  He has published both scholarly and popular articles on trends in social sciences and humanities research. Alan launched the “Permission to Think” speaker series alongside well-known media figure Josh Szeps in 2021, which invites prominent scholars to openly discuss complex issues during this age of outrage. Examining the role of intellectuals and institutions in public debates, especially those in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) faculties. To date, guests in the series have included the likes of Jonathan Haidt and Alice Dreger. Alan had an unusual educational background, being largely home-schooled and entering university via special admissions. He studied piano privately through his teens before initially undertaking a Bachelor of Music in performance, changing to musicology for his postgraduate study. His long-running research interests cover music and visual culture, art and aesthetics, celebrity studies, and 19th-century European cultural history, but he maintains his knowledge of previous interests, especially in the philosophy of science and the scientific method. Episode notes 0:00 Intro 08:35 Lesson 1: Never Stop Being Curious 13:23 Lesson 2: Being passionate about a problem doesn't mean you have a solution 20:38 Lesson 3: Try to Steelman and not Strawman. 29:30 Lesson 4: Smart people  can use their IQ to rationalize terrible ideas. 36:16 Lesson 5: Be both strategic and tactical and challenging orthodox. 42:43 Lesson 6: Being anti orthodox can be as bad as being orthodox. 44:50 Lesson 7: Humans are apes. 49:56 Lesson 8: Great leaders are both intellectual and ethical. 01:03:07 Lesson 9: Be consistent but be prepared to change. 01:06:25 Lesson 10: Working for and amongst people with diverse viewpoints is fulfilling.

It would take a butcher to butch up Corinna enough to satisfy those clamoring for his detransition. Fresh from the UnSpeakeasy retreat in Louisville, the Dorx also discuss the Kohein priestly caste, street work, rimshots, shock collars, and Pronoun Ripple ice cream. Is Cori a homunculus dressed in a woman suit? How many cavities does he have? Does wearing lumberjack clothes make you a lumberjack? Can we achieve peace in the Middle East by blocking traffic in the US? Listen to this exceptionally casual episode to find out the answers, most of which are “no”. Links: The Lumberjack Song: https://youtu.be/FshU58nI0Ts?si=vVwQniymDpk_udP4 The UnSpeakeasy: https://www.theunspeakeasy.com/retreats Belissa Cohen on Corinna Cohn: https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Corinna%22%20(from%3ABelissaCohen)&src=typed_query&f=live Camp Trans: https://afterellen.com/setting-the-record-straight-about-michfest/ Urbana IL citizens push for city resolution for ceasefire in Palestine: https://www.news-gazette.com/news/after-70-speakers-are-heard-from-urbana-aldermen-pass-revised-gaza-resolution-receive-standing-ovation/article_ad04334c-f8fe-567f-a038-04aa53cdfbc7.html This Land Is Mine: https://youtu.be/8tIdCsMufIY?si=SgipauO73mibAzKZ Seder-Masochism: https://sedermasochism.com/download/ Gender and Nina's local bike club: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2022/03/21/cycling-and-gender-intersect-in-meaningful-ways/ The Milgram Experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment Aaaron Kimberly, Alice Dreger, Alex Byrne, Holly Lawford-Smith debate: Is Sex Binary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoT_ayxjXpg&ab_channel=MITFreeSpeechAlliance For more information about RISE on The Land for WOMEN, email Char at riseontheland2020s@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heterodorx/support

How many genders are there?  Is gender a real thing?  What's the difference between sex and gender?  We dive into Alice Dreger's work who highlights the core questions in the Transgender debate.  She does a great job showing that Biology does in fact have an Intersex category that shows up in 1.7% of the population (the same amount as those with red hair) and this may be the biological core of the dumbed down and highly politicized Transgender debate.  I don't pretend I have it all figured out but I find it imperative that we approach these topics with curiosity rather than preconceived notions.You are the most powerful technology.  Don't ever forget that.Watch Exclusive Content!https://www.benjosephstewart.com/plans-pricingJoin Our Kickass Discord Community!  https://discord.gg/7QadgxEK4zCheck Out Latest Documentaries -   “Awake In The Darkness” - https://www.aubreymarcus.com/"DMT QUEST" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My95s6ZryPgVisit https://www.BenJosephStewart.com/ to get more involved.Gaia Shows "Psychedelica" & "Limitless" with Free Trial.  https://www.gaia.com/invite/join?rfd=AGvFiE&utm_source=iafLike & Follow, Much Love -Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1044023Minds:  https://www.minds.com/BenJosephStewart/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/BenJosephStewart/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenJosephStewBitchute:  https://www.bitchute.com/channel/aanpGqOQt8ZX/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@benstewartofficialTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/benjosephstewart

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Alice Dreger is a bioethicist, historian, activist, and author. She's well known as a powerful public voice in support of rights people born with atypical sex characteristics, such as intersex.In this conversation, Alice and Matt explore the science, philosophy, and history sex, gender, intersex, and similar topics.Topics:* Biological and social determinants of sex and gender* Medical treatment of people born with atypical sex characteristics* Ethics of sex and gender affirming medical interventions, especially in the case of children and adolescents* Conflicts that often arise between science and activists on matters relating to individual identity… and other topics.Alice's links:* Website: https://alicedreger.com/* Books: https://alicedreger.com/books/* Twitter: https://twitter.com/AliceDregerSUPPORT & CONNECT:- Follow and leave a 5-star review- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewgeleta/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewGeleta- Donate: https://bit.ly/donate-to-paradigmPODCAST INFO:- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3IVDF2W- Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3oEZYmJ- Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/paradigm-on-google- YouTube: https://bit.ly/paradigm-on-youtube- RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1656558/s/65176.rssChapters:0:00:00 Intro0:02:20 Alice's path to studying intersex0:04:05 What are sex and gender?0:08:20 Are sex and gender biologically determined?0:10:14 Is intersex a “problem”?0:13:00 Sexual orientation vs gender identity0:16:34 How common is intersex?0:22:24 Medical treatment of intersex people0:30:23 Experience of people with intersex0:41:21 Intersex in children and adolescents0:44:32 Scientists vs activists0:55:54 Galileo's Middle Finger0:58:21 Book recommendations1:01:20 Advice for aspiring activists Get full access to Paradigm at paradigmpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast Notes: Alice Dreger General: The Index Case by Molly Macallen, the first novel in the Maddy Shanks series. Published on Lulu. Visit Alice's website: https://alicedreger.com/ Follow: Follow Alice on Twitter https://twitter.com/AliceDreger?s=20&t=CDzQ-0LkFfFGhqph0trBOQ Articles and books: Alice's non-fiction books: https://alicedreger.com/books/ Alice's writing https://alicedreger.com/writing/ References: Visiting Your Leg Alice's essay on the politics of anatomy. One of Us Alice's book on anatomy and political and social identity. Dr Oz can't afford me Alice's essay on exploitation by the entertainment industry. Lavish Dwarf Entertainment Alice's essay on the entertainment agency. The New England Journal of Medicine. Altered Carbon the novel by Richard Morgan. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Alice's paper on the J Michael Bailey controversy. Alice and Colin Wright take part in a discussion about biological sex. Alice in Genderland by Richard Novic. Iona's essay on age gaps and relationships. Timestamps: 00.00 Opening and introductions. 4.17 Why a pseudonym for novel writing? 7.56 The themes of the book. 9.17 Alice reads the blurb from the novel. 11.26 Iona reads an excerpt from the novel. 16.46 Alice discusses how she and her protagonist's areas of study echo each other; the politics of anatomy, how the body interacts with the world, the history of science and of medicine. How science has dealt with “interesting” bodies over the course of modern history. 21.57 How power works in relationships between doctors and people with “interesting” bodies. Alice discusses how her non-fiction book One of Us addresses this, with reference to Eng and Chang Bunker, the original “Siamese twins”. 26.58 Alice talks about the historical and contemporary exhibition of bodies; how some individuals are exhibited and exploited and how some with “unusual” bodies make money from their own bodies. 30.13 Iona reads more. Alice discusses the shift of science away from storytelling to depersonalised, anonymised specimens. 35.09 The New England Journal of Medicine as an outlier to this phenomenon. 36.55 Iona refers to Altered Carbon, the novel, and the ethical and philosophical questions about what it means to be a person and about bodily intergration. 40.00 Iona and Alice talk about eugenics, disabilities and autism research and about anatomy and identity and what personhood is. How identity has changed over time away from the body and towards external signifiers. How this is explored in the novel. 43.16 Who has the right to use dead bodies? How the government may control bodies, eg: dying people isolated during the covid pandemic. 47.00 How the order of the books in the series came about. The Difficult Subject, book two, will be coming out soon. Themes around sexuality. 48.35 Alice's enjoyment of fiction writing vs. enjoyment of non-fiction writing. 51.13 Michael Bailey and his writing on autogynephilia and transgender identities. Do we have an innate sense of gender? Alice's recent debate with Colin Wright. How The Difficult Subject relates to these themes. 58.41 The unethical relationship in the novel. How power works in this relationship. Sex scenes and sexuality in the novels. 1.01.45 The abusive relationship in the series and Alice's own experience. Controversy around the framing of trauma. 1.08.45 More on the development of the series. The Worst Thing will be book three. Reception of the first novel. 1.15.00 Why self-publish? Published via Lulu. 1.19.55 Summing up and outro.

This very non-representative episode of Heterodorx is the recording of the formal, timed debate between Alice Dreger and Colin Wright, which was held live Monday December 7 2022. They set out to resolve the claim, “Biological sex is real, immutable, and binary.” Did they succeed? Listen and decide for yourself! Dreger-Wright debate on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2aKX8Mcz9Q&ab_channel=CorinnaCohn --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heterodorx/support

The Jepson Leadership Forum presents Alice Dreger, journalist, historian, and author of "Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science," a New York Times Book Review editors' choice, for a discussion on "Free Speech and Open Inquiry in Higher Education." The 2022-23 Jepson Leadership Forum focuses on past and present failures in leadership and followership by shining a spotlight on times where we could – and should – have done better. We invite scholars, experts, and activists to reflect on what went wrong in the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, climate change, the U.S. COVID-19 response, historical memory and racism, and higher education crises—and how to do better going forward. Oct. 24, 2022

This episode was made especially for anybody who might feel a sense of regret or anxiety about their medical transition. This does not mean they should necessarily detransition. Rather, it means that they are undergoing a reckoning with themselves. While some people choose to detransition, others are deeply ambivalent about transition but may feel they are “at a point of no return” and choose to remain in a trans identity. Others may find the detransition process too difficult and disappointing and decide to retransition. Sasha and Stella explore the blurry lines between terms like “transition” “detransition” and “transition regret” and hope to help listeners feel hopeful and find healing beyond these narrow concepts. Links: What I wish I'd known when I was 19 and had sex reassignment surgery, Corinna Cohn:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/11/i-was-too-young-to-decide-about-transgender-surgery-at-nineteen/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/11/i-was-too-young-to-decide-about-transgender-surgery-at-nineteen/)    Hormone Hangover: The Opposite of GD  https://hormonehangover.substack.com/p/the-opposite-of-gender-dysphoria?s=r (https://hormonehangover.substack.com/p/the-opposite-of-gender-dysphoria?s)   Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn  https://amzn.to/3sGI6qj (https://amzn.to/3sGI6qj) Extended Notes Make the best decision for yourself at the time. Sasha changes her mind about the argument made by Alice Dreger. Stella shares her experience of working in addiction and her patients' lost years. Some experiences make a person feel like an outsider in their peer group. The importance of speaking with someone who relates to you. The Beyond Transition project encompasses all the different layers of transition. Transitioning or detransitioning is nobody's business but the individuals. Therapy and practices for the body help people get in tune with their physiology. For those feeling overwhelmed, consider what you can do today, not tomorrow, just today. Learning to be patient and dealing with setbacks requires mental flexibility. Sharing a transition experience can assist others with their journeys. The reasons behind self-destructive behaviors. Navigating the multiple pathways to healing. Tools to understand influence and mitigate self-blame. Stella shares the beautiful story of a woman who detransitioned. Getting back to nature and the calming effects of pets. Only you know what you need. Do what you have to do. This podcast is sponsored by ReIME and Genspect. Visit https://rethinkime.org/ (https://rethinkime.org/) and https://genspect.org/ (https://genspect.org/) to learn more. For more about our show: https://linktr.ee/WiderLensPod (https://linktr.ee/WiderLensPod)

Historian and journalist Alice Dreger is perhaps best known for her book Galileo's Middle Finger, in which she chronicles the smear campaign against Dr Michael Bailey for his book, The Man Who Would Be Queen. Her book has been described by some as "an exoneration of Dr Bailey" and an important reminder that politically motivated science denialism exists on the left as well as the right. http://alicedreger.com   Galileo's Middle Finger: https://www.amazon.ca/Galileos-Middle-Finger-Heretics-Activists/dp/0143108115   The Man Who Would Be Queen: https://www.nap.edu/login.php?record_id=10530&page=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nap.edu%2Fdownload%2F10530  

Dr. Michael Bailey is an American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychologist (psychologist), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_genetics (behavioral geneticist), and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor (professor) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University (Northwestern University) best known for his work on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiology (etiology), or origins, of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation (sexual orientation). He maintains that sexual orientation is heavily influenced by biology and male https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality (homosexuality) is most likely inborn. Dr. Bailey's 2003 book, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_Queen (The Man Who Would Be Queen), gave an accessible, intimate, and compassionate account of male sexuality, with a focus on gender-nonconforming boys, gay men, and male-to-female transsexuals. The book was nominated for an award, which was later retracted, from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_Literary_Foundation (Lambda Literary Foundation), an organization that promotes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_literature (gay literature). Aside from legitimate critiques of the book and Dr. Bailey's theories, attacks spilled into the realm of the egregious as a small group of radical transwomen viciously went after Mike, his reputation, and his family. All of this was documented thoroughly in Alice Dreger's book, Galileo's Middle finger, which ultimately exonerated Dr. Bailey of the accusations against him.   Today, Mike explains how he got interested in working with sexuality during a time when it was quite taboo in academia. After publishing research on male sexuality, Mike began encountering transexual women who wanted to talk about their experiences. He came to recognize that some MtF transsexuals were nothing like what he'd expected. He went on to study this further, write his book, and soon after, all hell broke loose. While Mike is certainly no contrarian, he unapologetically tells the truth and has committed himself to do his job well as a psychological researcher.   Links:   Download The Man Who Would Be Queen:  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281747420_The_Man_Who_Would_Be_Queen (Researchgate.net/publication/281747420_The_Man_Who_Would_Be_Queen)   Christine Benevunuto: Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085UCVKY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 (Amazon.com/gp/product/B0085UCVKY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0)   Alice Dreger (June 2008). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124 (“The controversy surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: a case history of the politics of science, identity, and sex in the Internet age”). Archives of Sexual Behavior. 37 (3): 366–421. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_(identifier) (doi):https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10508-007-9301-1 (10.1007/s10508-007-9301-1).   Ray Blanchard (1989). “The classification and labeling of nonhomosexual gender dysphorias”. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 18 (4): 315–334. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_(identifier) (doi):https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fbf01541951 (10.1007/bf01541951). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMID_(identifier) (PMID) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2673136 (2673136). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2CID_(identifier) (S2CID) https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:43151898 (43151898).  Extended Notes A little bit about Michael and how he got into this field of work. Back then, there was stigma that if you were researching about gay or queer topics, you were also gay/queer. Gender non-conforming children tend to be correlated to having same-sex sexual orientation later on in life. However, where do transgender people fall in between all of this? Michael shares the first time he spoke with a transgendered woman. There are different types of transgendered people, and reasons why they... Support this podcast

The Dorx welcome Alice Dreger, author of the excellent Galileo's Middle Finger. Dreger discusses Intersex as a political identity, what makes her feel like a woman, the trials of puberty, lactose intolerance, the importance of talking to kids about sexual pleasure, and East Lansing Info, a model local journalism organization she founded. Then she talks about “discriminatory and hateful” segregation in sports. Hold onto your hats! *Some people are born with more than 10 fingers; others with fewer. Whether due to genetic anomolies or amputation, some have no fingers at all. So who are we to say what a “middle finger” even is? Galileo's Middle Finger https://alicedreger.com/GMF East Lansing Info https://eastlansinginfo.news/ Alice in Genderland https://aliceingenderland.com/ What's Happening to Me https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141764._What_s_Happening_to_Me_A_Guide_to_Puberty How Babies Are Made https://www.amazon.com/How-Babies-Made-Steven-Schepp/dp/1626541043 Nina's Sex-Positive Memoirs https://4w.pub/sex-pos-memoirs/ Heterodorx interview with Grace Lavery (who also declines to define 'woman'): https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-26-trano-a-trano-with-grace-lavery/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heterodorx/support

We discuss the politicization of science, the tension between ideology and science, scientific/clinical misconduct, academic freedom, and activism by social justice warriors, among other topics. Alice's website: http://alicedreger.com _______________________________________ This chat was originally posted on February 16, 2016 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_138: https://youtu.be/qD6EVe87w1c _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense was released on October 6, 2020. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

We discuss the politicization of science, the tension between ideology and science, scientific/clinical misconduct, academic freedom, and activism by social justice warriors, among other topics. Alice's website: http://alicedreger.com _______________________________________ This chat was originally posted on February 16, 2016 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_138: https://youtu.be/qD6EVe87w1c _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense was released on October 6, 2020. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

A scientist has not been burned at the stake in over 350 years - and even then it was Giordano Bruno, not Galileo. Find out how Professor Alice Dreger (PhD) become an advocate for survivors of intersex sexual reassignment surgery and she becomes a strong candidate to be burned in effigy by those for whom she was advocating. This is a reposting of a book conversation from 2015, now included as a podcast (originally recorded on April 29, 2015 as a live, on air conversation with Alice Dreger, PhD, Professor of Medical Humanities, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine). With transgender dynamics, identity, politics, and everything exploding in the headlines, the need for empathy around sexual identity and related issues are even more urgent and timely today than they when originally broadcast. Find out what happens to people whose sex was reassigned surgically at birth while they were still infants and they were not told. You can't make this stuff up. Empathy is no rumor in the contribution of Alice Dreger; empathy LIVEs in her work. Not to be missed. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://louagosta.com/2021/05/28/review-galileos-middle-finger-speaking-truth-to-transgender-power-and-power-talks-back/ (c) Lou Agosta, PhD and the Chicago Empathy Project --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lou-agosta-phd/support

'Cancel culture' has become a phrase that means so much that it means nothing at all. It originated in Black culture as a way to hold the powerful accountable, but was eventually appropriated as a political weapon for (mostly White) conservatives and liberal progressives, each group using it in very different ways. Cancel culture has brought much-needed attention to societal inequities, but also toppled careers - some justifiably, others more questionably. In the end, the most powerful scalawags seem too big to cancel. We parse out the nuance of 'cancel culture' with three thoughtful people, including one who has been canceled and who now counsels the canceled. GUESTS: Gene Seymour is a film and jazz critic and a cultural critic for CNN.com, the New Republic, and the Nation. Clyde McGrady is a Style features writer for the Washington Post focusing on race and identity. Alice Dreger is a writer, historian, journalist, and local news publisher with Ph.D in History of Science. Her best known book is Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice, and her bylines include the New York Times, WIRED Magazine, and the Atlantic. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Could the French postmodern philosopher, Michel Foucault or American Gender theorist, Judith Butler provide us with arguments for the value of viewpoint diversity? For increasing the number of conservative faculty members on college campuses? Alice Dreger thinks so. Today's blog, written by Alice, a Heterodox Academy Advisory Council Member and the author of four books, most notably, Galileo's Middle Finger, is an exquisite reflection on one academic feminist's journey into and through the “science wars” - a divide between those who thought science could obtain objective truth and those who thought truth was a social-construction - and the lessons that she learned in the process. Her piece is called, “Could Feminism (Again) Provide an Argument for More Conservatives?” To engage deeper with Dreger's ideas, check out our related posts “Difference and Repetition in the Viewpoint Diversity Space” by Musa al-Gharbi, “Towards an Ethics of Activism” by Frances Lee, and “Callosal Failure: One Hundred Years of Viewpoint Diversity Activism” by Musa al-Gharbi. For comments and questions email communications@heterodoxacademy.org. Stay up to date with Dreger on Twitter @AliceDreger. For comments and questions email communications@heterodoxacademy.org.   This episode was hosted by Zach Rausch. The artwork was inspired by Musa's piece and was created by Lexi Polokoff. You can follow her on Instagram @lexipolokoffart

On Episode 70, Nick chats with historian of medicine and science, sex researcher, mainstream writer, and (im)patient advocate, Dr. Alice Dreger about her early investigations into the broken medical care system and the intersex rights movement, the story behind her book, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice and the relationship between science and social justice, approaching present-day cancel culture from a nuanced perspective, and her current efforts as founder of the local news organization East Lansing Info to rescue local news in her city and in America more generally.

Alice Dreger is a writer, historian and academic from New York. She is probably best well known for her book Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and one Scholar’s Search for Justice which was a New York Times editor’s choice. Her other books include Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex and also One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her writing and research and was the inaugural recipient of the Courage Award from the Heterodox Academy. She has written articles for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Atlantic, WIRED, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other publications. When Bari Weiss wrote the article for the New York Times which popularised the term ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ back in 2018, Alice Dreger was to be one of the ‘renegade intellectuals’ originally set to be included in the piece but she herself asked to be left out of the piece. Her Ted Talk ‘Is Anatomy Destiny’ was presented at TEDxNorthwesternU in 2010 and has over a million views. Alice now lives in the city of East Lansing, Michigan, in the United States where she founded the local news organisation East Lansing Info (Eli).You can read more about Alice on her blog. If you are a student or a teacher in a college or university in the United States and interested in, or impacted by, restrictions on research, speech or writing you should check out the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

1:27 Defining intersex—how common is it?; different types 8:06 Intersex versus trans 12:20 What does it mean to be assigned the “wrong” sex at birth? 25:03 Is sex a spectrum? 30:33 Hermaphrodites 32:33 The condition MRKH and Claire’s own experiences being diagnosed 38:20 CAIS (complete androgen insensitivity syndrome); past approaches to intersex people and more recent changes 47:10 Claire’s Twitter ban; trans activists and intersex people 1:07:40 Some misconceptions about intersex people You can find out more by following Claire here: https://mrkhvoice.com/ Further References Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002); Alice Dreger, Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice (2015) Fact checking the statistics about the incidence of intersex: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000222z You can follow intersex activist Emily Quinn on YouTube (highly recommended): https://www.youtube.com/user/Emilord And see intersex activist https://www.youtube.com/user/pidgejen Aphra Behn, “To the Fair Clorinda” (1688): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50479/to-the-fair-clorinda Natalia Wynn (“ContraPoints”) and her facial feminisation surgery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mspMJTNEY

The Freedom Project Director Kathryn Lynch interviews Alice Dreger, journalist, historian, and author of "Galileo's Middle Finger" (http://alicedreger.com/gmf).

Encore release November 19, 2018. Encore release August 12, 2017. We interview Dr. Alice Dreger, author of Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science, in which she discusses recent controversies involving bioethics researchers and activists—herself included. Dr. Dreger is the professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago. She found herself at the center of another controversy recently when she live-tweeted her son's abstinence-heavy public school sex-ed class. Galileo's Middle Finger is available in hardcover, for Kindle and as an audiobook. For more about Alice Dreger visit AliceDreger.com.  

Yoel and Mickey welcome author, journalist, historian, and bioethicist Alice Dreger to the show. Alice, who wrote Galileo’s Middle Finger, discusses how her upbringing, her academic background, and her own Galilean personality led her to piss so many people off in the service of serving both truth and justice. Can academics pursue both truth and justice? What is a Galilean personality? Do activists pollute science? Why did Alice refuse to be lumped in with the so-called Intellectual Dark Web? How can we improve the way newspapers work? Bonus: Why did Yoel and Mickey create an (Alice approved) drinking podcast? Special Guest: Alice Dreger.

The human mind loves nothing more than to build mental boxes -- categories -- and put things into them, then refuse to accept it when something doesn't fit. Nowhere is this more clear than in the idea that there are men, and there are women, and that's it. Alice Dreger is an historian of science, specializing in intersexuality and the relationship between bodies and identities. She is also a successful activist, working to change the way that doctors deal with newborn children who are born intersex. We talk about human sexuality and a number of other hot-button topics, and ruminate on the challenges of being both an intellectual (devoted to truth) and an activist (seeking justice). [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/seancarroll/alice-dreger.mp3" social_gplus="false" social_email="true" hashtag="mindscapepodcast" ] Alice Dreger received her Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University. She has worked as a faculty member at Michigan State University and Northwestern University. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and was the Founding Board Chair of the Intersex Society of North America. She is the author of a number of books, including Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice, and most recently The Talk: Helping Your Kids Navigate Sex in the Real World. Home page Wikipedia page Publications TED Talk: Is Anatomy Destiny? Twitter

“Nature doesn’t care about our desire to have these clean political categories for legal purposes.” — Alice Dreger Today I’m really excited to have Dr. Alice Dreger on the podcast. Dr. Dreger is a historian, bioethicist, author, and former professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Dreger is widely known for her academic work and activism in support of people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and those with atypical sex characteristics. In her observations, it’s often a fuzzy line between “male” and “female”, among other anatomical distinctions. A key question guiding a lot of Dr. Dreger’s work (and which was the topic of her TEDx talk) is “Why do we let our anatomy determine our fate?” Dr. Dreger is the author of multiple books, including “One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal” and “Galieleo’s Middle Finger Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science.” In this episode, we discuss a wide range of topics, including: How Dr. Dreger got involved in the “Intersex Rights Movement” in the mid-90s The difference between anatomy and gender identity The relationship between our bodies and our personal and social identities and the role of science and medicine in determining this relationship Who gets to tell your body what it means How the mind isn’t the only place where identity exists, and how our identities also exist in the minds of others The future of gender pronouns How we should treat those who do not fit traditional notions of sex, such as the fascinating cases of “androgen sensitivity syndrome” and “congenital adrenal hyperplasia” How we can see more value in variation in anatomy The need for a more reality-based government Why the phrase “identity politics” is distracting and only part of a larger problem The benefits and disadvantages of the “Intellectual Dark Web” The increasing difficulty of being able to tell what is true and what is false in the media Why we spend so much of our energy on tribal politics and avoid the real humanitarian problems in the world Why tribal life is so compelling The need to balance male and female ways of being What an “Intellectual Light Web” might look like

In this episode I talk about how the myth of objectivity in science makes attacks on researchers worse. I interviewed social epistemologist Steve Fuller, Professor Simone Dennis, Professor Mark Largent and Dr Lindy Orthia.Find the brilliant Alice Dreger's work here, as well as the article I quoted here

Half Hour of Heterodoxy is now an audio-only podcast. We suggest that you subscribe through iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, or any other app of your choice, or listen using the audio player in the blog post.  Show Notes  Alice Dreger is an historian of medicine and science, a sex researcher, and an advocate of academic freedom. She is the author of Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice. In this episode, I talk to her about why she blames university brand management, and the corporatization of academia more broadly, for the policing of research, which has now become common in academic life. We talk about how the increasing reliance on external research funding has spurred attention to university brand management, and Alice also presents her recommendations for what to do if you are caught up in an academic controversy. Alice Dreger's Webpage Alice Dreger on Twitter Alice Dreger's keynote address on academic freedom at FIRE's 2017 faculty conference Selected Quotes 1 "I went to my [Northwestern] university provost and said, 'Admit that this was censorship and say that you won’t do it again.' He would not do that. And It seemed that he was legitimately afraid at that point of the [university] hospital corporation, which I found deeply concerning. And that’s why I finally did just resign. You can’t have any integrity if you have a major book out on academic freedom telling people to stand up for their academic rights and you’re allowing your university dean to tell you what you can and can’t publish." 2 "One thing I recommend to people, the minute they start to get into trouble with academic freedom, is that they contact FIRE because it’s one of the few organizations out there that will defend you for free and will do so vigorously. And universities do care about their FIRE rating. They really do care about It. So it matters."   Previous Episodes of Half Hour of Heterodoxy Music: "Ave Marimba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

Many museums around the world hold human bodies and body parts. Egyptian mummies draw huge crowds curious about our ancient past and specimens in medical museums allow us to imagine our own bodies from the inside. Many of these museum objects have become highly contested. Whilst some people may look at them and see artefacts or tools for knowledge, for others, human remains remain human. Shivaani Kohok explores why storing and displaying human remains in museums is so contentious. Many human remains in medical museums were obtained without the consent of the people they were removed from: curators like Carla Valentine of the Barts Pathology Museum in London argue that they should be preserved because they tell a story of the history of medicine, and may still be useful for scientific study. Bob Weatherall has been campaigning for decades to get museums to return remains of Aboriginal Australians to their communities of origin so they can be respectfully laid to rest. Chip Colwell, curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, explains how museums in America have reacted to calls for the repatriation of Native American human remains. Alice Dreger, historian and philosopher of anatomy, believes that museums should consider whether some repatriation claims could result in a loss of scientific learning. J Nathan Bazzel donated his hip bones to a museum after they were surgically removed. (Photo: Barts Museum, Credit: Carla Valentine, Courtesy of Pathology Museum at Queen Mary University London)

In this episode, Page and Monica chat with Chicago-based intersex activist Pidgeon about the book Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex by Alice Dreger. Pidgeon is a leader in the global intersex movement's fight for bodily autonomy and justice.

Every year, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education puts out a list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech. And this year, surprisingly, half of the schools on the list earned their spot because they threatened faculty’s right to speak out in some way. One institution on that list was Northwestern University. Last year, Northwestern made headlines for its extraordinary attacks on academic freedom on two separate occasions. Once for its 72-day Title IX investigation into Professor Laura Kipnis’ public writings and comments about sexual politics on campus. And on another occasion, for its censorship of a faculty-produced bioethics journal that it feared would damage its medical school’s “brand.” This episode of “So to Speak” is about academic freedom, and our guest is Alice Dreger. Dreger is an historian of medicine and science, a sex researcher, a mainstream writer, and what she calls “an (im)patient advocate.” She also formerly held the position of full professor in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and she was a guest editor for the bioethics journal that Northwestern sought to censor. In this episode, we speak with Dreger about the importance of academic freedom at Northwestern and beyond, why the corporatization of the modern university threatens free speech on campus, and why we must use the word “formerly” when describing her tenure at Northwestern. www.sotospeakpodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/freespeechtalk Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast Email us: sotospeak@thefire.org Call in a question: 215-315-0100

In the second part of our new science podcast, Christie Aschwanden talks to Alice Dreger about her book "Galileo's Middle Finger."

A woman's sister has been in a secret relationshipfor 7 years. Can or should she talk her sister out of what shethinks is an unhealthy relationship? A woman discovers that she gets off from spitting inher boyfriend's mouth. Is this common? Is this wrong? On the Magnum, Dan chats with Alice Dreger, author ofThe Talk: Helping Your Kids Navigate Sex inthe Real World about whether it's cool to let your 12 year olddaughter get that teeny-tiny, little bikini. And a shy straight guy can't figure out how to ask agirl out even when she's making ggo-goo eyes at him on thetrain. 206-302-2064 This episode is brought to you by Squarespace.com.They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl, andif you want to buy it, use the code Savage for a 10% discount andfree web domain registration. The Savage Lovecast is alsosponsored by Casper, an online retailer of premiummattresses for a fraction of the price -- because everyone deservesa great night's sleep.  Get $50 off any mattress purchase byvisiting casper.com/savage and enter the promo codesavage. Today's Lovecast is also brought to you byMeUndies.com: High quality, super-comfortable, good looking undies.Get 20% off your first order when you go toMeUndies.com/Savage.

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Alice Dreger is a historian of science, anatomy, and medicine, known for her work studying and advocating for people born with atypical sex disorders. She famously resigned from Northwestern University in protest of academic censorship, and gained some infamy on Twitter for live-tweeting her son's sex education class. We had a delightful chat with her about her writing process in advance of the paperback release of her book, Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science.

Alice Dreger is an historian of medicine and science, a sex researcher, a mainstream writer, and an (im)patient advocate. Her most recent book is Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science. She also made headlines in 2015 when she resigned from her position at Northwestern University for what she said was a lack of academic independence. In October 2015, Dreger sat down with Lance Knobel, curator of the Uncharted Berkeley Festival of Ideas, for a spell-binding conversation.

We'd like to think that science should exist outside of politics and researchers follow the truth wherever it goes. But the ideal of rational non-ideological science is under attack at many colleges and universities, says our guest, Alice Dreger. An historian who studies human sexuality and the ethics of medical research, Alice is the author of the provocative new book, "Galileo's Middle Finger." "I'm really looking at how activists go after scientists who have ideas that the activists don't like - usually about human identity," she tells us. Unsurprisingly perhaps, this show includes explicit content, including a description of a sex act. But the main focus is about the threat to academic freedom. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Several years ago historian of medicine Alice Dreger found herself in a room full of intersexed people, individuals with reproductive or sexual anatomy that is neither typically female nor male. Dreger noticed something strange: many of them had teeth that were in bad shape. She soon learned that many of them had endured such traumatic experiences with doctors that they wouldn’t go near anyone in a white coat, including dentists. We were astonished by this story, so we asked Dreger to tell us more. She joined us for our December podcast alongside Eric Vilain, a medical geneticist and director of the Center for Gender-based Biology at UCLA. While intersex, transgender, and transsexual issues have recently entered the mainstream, our guests explain that there have always been those whose anatomy or identity prevents them from fitting neatly into the categories of male or female. And even with this newfound exposure, tensions continue to exist for them all. But first we’ll hear about the experiences of a transgender couple desperate to conceive a child, but who struggled to find a willing doctor. Mariel Carr visits them at home in Philadelphia, where they’re adapting to life with an infant. Show Clock: 00:03 Introduction 01:26 Feature story: "The Pregnant Man"  14:48 Interview with Alice Dreger and Eric Vilain Credits: Hosts: Michal Meyer and Bob Kenworthy Guests: Alice Dreger and Eric Vilain Reporter: Mariel Carr Producer: Mariel CarrAssociate Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Music: Music courtesy of the Audio Network. 

In this episode, I talk with Alice Dreger, author of Galileo's Middle Finger and former Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University in Chicago. She resigned from the position following a dispute over censorship of an issue of the medical humanities journal Atrium. I first heard about Alice when she livetweeted her son's sex ed class, and in this episode we talk about the state of sex ed today, her work as an advocate for intersex individuals and conjoined twins, how she became interested in studying scientific controversies and contrarians, and answer some questions from listeners. Listeners who have what used to be called a "sensitive constitution" may wish to avoid this episode, as we speak frankly about several adult topics, including genital anatomy, sexual behavior, and academic funding.Due to a higher than normal amount of email this month, any complaints about this episode must be hand-delivered to our Complaints Department, located in the secret caverns underneath Ulaan Bator, Mongolia. Show Links and Notes: Alice's website: AliceDreger.com Her latest book: Galileo's Middle Finger The Bad Girls issue of Atrium Her method of collecting oral histories   The Storify stream of her sex-ed Livetweets   Wikipedia: Intersex Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Cliteromegaly Hypospadias   The Geek's Guide To Dating "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown" at The O'Floinn Spot, an account of the Galileo affair, in which Galileo's scientific and political acumen comes off less well than in more widely circulated versions of the story, and the Catholic Church comes off somewhat better and less anti-scientific than expected.

Alice recently resigned her position as a professor at Northwestern University's Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program over her refusal to surrender academic freedom. She's the author of Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science.

A divorced single mother can't seem to get it through her lovers' heads that she just wants casual relationships. How can she convince them that there's no ring required?  A woman's mouth is dick Kryptonite! Her boyfriend's penis always goes soft when she tries to go down. What on earth is she doing wrong?  On the Magnum, Dan talks to author and bioethics professor Alice Dreger as well as documentarian Liz Canner, who created Orgasm Inc, about the hype and general scumminess surrounding the new “Female viagra”- flibanserin. And tons more.  206-201-2720 This episode of theSavage Lovecastis supported by SundanceNow Doc Club: The new streaming service for everyone who loves documentaries. To get a free 30-day trial go to Docclub.com/Savage. Today's Lovecast is also brought to you by MeUndies.com: High quality, super-comfortable, good looking undies. Get 20% off your first order when you go to MeUndies.com/Savage This episode is also brought to you by AdamandEve.com. Get 10 free gifts, plus free shipping when you enter offer code "Savage".

A divorced single mother can't seem to get it through her lovers' heads that she just wants casual relationships. How can she convince them that there's no ring required?  A woman's mouth is dick Kryptonite! Her boyfriend's penis always goes soft when she tries to go down. What on earth is she doing wrong?  On the Magnum, Dan talks to author and bioethics professor Alice Dreger as well as documentarian Liz Canner, who created Orgasm Inc, about the hype and general scumminess surrounding the new “Female viagra”- flibanserin. And tons more.  206-201-2720 This episode of theSavage Lovecastis supported by SundanceNow Doc Club: The new streaming service for everyone who loves documentaries. To get a free 30-day trial go to Docclub.com/Savage. Today's Lovecast is also brought to you by MeUndies.com: High quality, super-comfortable, good looking undies. Get 20% off your first order when you go to MeUndies.com/Savage This episode is also brought to you by AdamandEve.com. Get 10 free gifts, plus free shipping when you enter offer code "Savage".

This week, we're talking about justice, truth and social activism, and how they influence scientists and their research. We'll spend the hour with Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. We'll discuss her experience as a scientist and activist, and her book "Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science." 

This week we're looking at the intersection of human sexuality, research and education. We're joined by sexuality educator and blogger Emily Nagoski, to talk about her book "Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life." And we'll speak to medical humanities and bioethics professor Alice Dreger, about her experience live-tweeting her son's abstinence-focused sex-ed class.

This hour we talk to Alice Dreger, author of Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science (Penguin Press, March 2015). As both a scientist and activist, Dreger has found herself in the middle of controversies surrounding the intersex movement, transsexual identity, and the biology of rape (among other issues). Contributing…

For lovers of books and literature everywhere, it's fairly common to encounter a favorite author who's also a doctor: Arthur Conan Doyle, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, Anton Chekov, Robin Cook, Abraham Verghese, Oliver Sacks, Michael Crichton, et al. What's far less common is finding an English professor who decides (north of the age of forty, no less) to become a doctor -- yet such is the case with Terrence Holt, a physician and medical school prof based in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We speak with Dr. Holt about his well-regarded new collection of autobiographical tales, "Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories," and about his journey as a writer and doctor more generally. We also chat with Scott Hensley, who writes and edits stories for Shots, the Health Blog from NPR News. Scott (who's kindly subbing today for Gary Schwitzer) joins us to address recent topics in the realm of medical news, namely Americans' ideas and concerns about Ebola and the "surrogates" used in certain medical studies. And finally, our commentator Alice Dreger ponders why and how doctors will sometimes compose narratives about their patients. This program originally aired on Public Radio 89.5 KWGS.

Stigma from illness keeps sufferers in the dark, where they’re ashamed to give voice to their afflictions out of fear and embarrassment. Dr. Anne Hallward, a psychiatrist in Maine, is giving voice to those living in the shadows and talks to host John Henning Schumann about her work. Gary Schwitzer of HealthNewsReview.org reviews the week's health news, and medical humanist Alice Dreger shares a meditation on using data to guide her own health care. This program originally aired on Public Radio 89.5 KWGS.

A gay man appears to be a straight man magnet. Straight men declare their love for him more than gay men do. Why? And how can he make it stop?!  Meanwhile, in the mountains of Alaska, a couple have reached the divide where one of them wants kids and the other doesn't. One of them will win. One will lose.  On the Magnum, it's our second Second Opinion! This time, with "Ask Amy's" Amy Dickinson who braves some raunchy territory with naughty Dan Savage.  Also, Alice Dreger on talking to your kid about pornography.  206-201-2720 This episode is brought to you by AdamandEve.com. Get 10 free gifts, plus free shipping when you enter offer code "Savage".

A gay man appears to be a straight man magnet. Straight men declare their love for him more than gay men do. Why? And how can he make it stop?!  Meanwhile, in the mountains of Alaska, a couple have reached the divide where one of them wants kids and the other doesn't. One of them will win. One will lose.  On the Magnum, it's our second Second Opinion! This time, with "Ask Amy's" Amy Dickinson who braves some raunchy territory with naughty Dan Savage.  Also, Alice Dreger on talking to your kid about pornography.  206-201-2720 This episode is brought to you by AdamandEve.com. Get 10 free gifts, plus free shipping when you enter offer code "Savage".

Kathy is classy and Irish Catholic. Billy is a slutty athiest. SITCOM! They both have a fun conversation about fickle dating standards, sexual histories and marriage. Kathy is a young ex-fiance and recalls the red flags leading to the end of her military engagement. The two ponder a world where Catholic priests are allowed to have casual sex. If you saw the Pope on Tinder, would you swipe right?  Slut shaming continues to plague our country after the Belle Knox incident and Alyssa Funke's recent suicide. Billy rants about the tragic state of sex education in schools. Alice Dreger's article asks, "What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?" NEW DRINKING GAME! Take a shot every time Kathy says "madonna/whore complex". For your health, I edited out a few of them. Plus another great round of CreepyPMs Theater. This week's episode is sponsored by prolactin. Prolactin: making you think twice before going for Round 2. Email your questions for sex researcher Dr. Zhana Vrangalova to manwhorepod@gmail.com www.manwhorepod.com