( A drum-kit beat tumbles into a smooth, modern, lo-fi hip-hop track.) Smyth: I had always sort of enjoyed sex, and really liked sex, but I had never had an orgasm. Longoria: There’s a certain kind of pleasure that Katharine Smyth has never felt before. After a moment of musical climax, the symphony cuts out.) Smyth: It’s such a hard thing to talk about, right? Because it’s like, how do you describe it? Um … It’s just that feeling of, like, a rush and a flush and a real, intense pleasure that feels like it-it has an end and a crest. Katharine Smyth: You know, I do wonder … Sometimes I think that I maybe have had them in-in dreams. ( After a beat, birds chirp, sheep bleat, and a flute-led symphony builds as if emerging into some idyllic, sun-dappled pasture in the middle of the forest.) Julia Longoria: Just a quick note-this week’s episode is definitely PG-13. Additional audio from MGM Studios, Sweet Alice, Film&Clips, Fox News, Miramax, and VCX Classics.Ī transcript of this episode is presented below: Chapman (“Casual Sex”) and Claude Debussy (“Prélude à l'Après-Midi d'un Faune”). Music by infinite bisous (“ Lost in Translation /2,” “ Why Should I?”), r mccarthy (“ Fine,” “ Jyoti,” “ She's a Gift Giver, She's a Giver of Gifts”), Parish Council (“ Same Cake”), Safa Park (“Loose Yams”), Laundry (“ Lawn Feeling”), Keyboard (“ Staying In”), water feature (“ a paradise”), and Nelson Bandela (“No Dummms 6860,” “ Hoop Dreams”), provided by Tasty Morsels and Nelson Nance.
Use the hashtag #TheExperimentPodcast, or write to us at episode was produced by Julia Longoria and Gabrielle Berbey, with editing by Katherine Wells. This week on The Experiment: A personal quest for sexual fulfillment reveals centuries of mythmaking about female pleasure.įurther reading: The Tyranny of the Female-Orgasm Industrial Complexīe part of The Experiment. And it’s almost always to the benefit of men.” “The metaphor that came to me is that it’s kind of like a Rorschach test, where it’s this abstraction that all of these doctors and scientists are projecting their own worldview upon.
So she embarked on a quest-diving deep into an industry designed to solve her problem, searching for a feeling that’s been a fixation of science, pseudoscience, politics, and philosophy for centuries.
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This fact didn’t worry her very much until her 30s, when a divorce and a series of dates with frustrated men made her think she might never find love again. Katharine Smyth is 39 years old and has never, to her knowledge, had an orgasm.