Maintenance Phase: Vibrators

November 30, 2021 9:09 AM

It's a sexual health episode! This week, Mike and Aubrey dive into the hotly debated medical history of vibrators and ask: who fact-checks the fact-checkers? Support the show
posted by bq (5 comments total)

This was fun! More academic needs, only mild fat content. They probably could have gone further down the rat hole of vibration as fitness technique but I was quite happy with 50 minutes of talk about vibrators.
posted by bq at 8:19 PM on November 30, 2021

I generally want more commentary on stuff directly related to fat/weight craziness in our culture, but this is too good a topic to pass up. I was listening to some older episodes last weekend and realized how nice it is to have an ad-free podcast (and truly ad-free, unlike NPR podcasts with 2-3 minutes of sponsorship bullshit per hour), so I just signed up to be a patreon sponsor.
posted by skewed at 7:23 AM on December 1, 2021 [7 favorites]

I really enjoyed Michael's continually escalating horror in this, not the least of which was for the methodology used in some of the research.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 10:58 AM on December 2, 2021

good episode. i think the thematic connection is: a lot of 'common sense' about medical history, research, and motivation is lore or bullshit.

which connects to other fallacies like bmi, keto, master cleanse...

really good listen.
posted by j_curiouser at 3:18 PM on December 2, 2021

Agree with others -- enjoyed the ep, but didn't really feel like it belonged among the other episodes. Felt more like a Patreon extra ep, but also whatever -- I'm happy with whatever they want to put in my ears.
posted by BlahLaLa at 11:31 AM on December 4, 2021 [2 favorites]