{
 "episode_id": "the-diary-of-a-ceo-2026-06-22-dr-rachel-rubin-women-s-sexual-health-menopause-hormone-repl",
 "title": "Dr Rachel Rubin: Women's Sexual Health, Menopause, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and Orgasms!",
 "podcast": "the-diary-of-a-ceo",
 "published_at": "2026-06-22",
 "speakers": [
  "Steven Bartlett",
  "Rachel Rubin"
 ],
 "summary": "Urologist and sexual-medicine specialist Dr. Rachel Rubin joins Steven Bartlett to argue that women's hormonal and sexual health is systematically neglected because doctors are never trained in it. She walks through how testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone change across the menstrual cycle, perimenopause, and menopause, defends hormone replacement therapy as widely misunderstood since the misinterpreted Women's Health Initiative study, and makes the case for vaginal estrogen/DHEA as a safe, cheap way to prevent UTIs and treat painful sex. She explains the anatomy of the clitoris and the 'orgasm gap,' arguing most women orgasm from the clitoris rather than penetration and that conditions like clitoral adhesion go undiagnosed. The conversation closes on pain during sex, the distorting effects of pornography, scheduling sex, body image, and the role of communication and conflict resolution in lasting relationships.",
 "topics": [
  {
   "name": "The rage: a medical system failing women",
   "timestamp": "3:55",
   "summary": "Rubin explains why she is 'filled with rage': doctors are not trained in hormones or sexual health, so even affluent women (Melinda Gates, Oprah, Halle Berry) are let down, and women's health gets less research and manpower than men's."
  },
  {
   "name": "Hormones across the life stages: testosterone, estrogen, progesterone",
   "timestamp": "12:48",
   "summary": "Rubin reframes testosterone as a hormone women make that drops in their 30s (not at menopause), walks through the menstrual cycle, and explains the hormonal shifts of perimenopause and menopause."
  },
  {
   "name": "Birth control, GLP-1s and medication side effects",
   "timestamp": "15:51",
   "summary": "How combined birth control suppresses the ovaries and lowers testosterone, the principle of informed consent about sexual side effects, and a survey finding sexual side effects from GLP-1 weight-loss drugs."
  },
  {
   "name": "HRT history and the Women's Health Initiative",
   "timestamp": "26:42",
   "summary": "Rubin recounts how the early-2000s Women's Health Initiative was misinterpreted, stigmatizing hormone therapy overnight, and frames hormone therapy as four buckets (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, vaginal hormones) that women should be able to access."
  },
  {
   "name": "Vaginal hormones, GSM and UTIs",
   "timestamp": "30:25",
   "summary": "Rubin demonstrates vaginal estrogen cream, DHEA, tablets and rings, explaining genitourinary syndrome of menopause and how vaginal hormones prevent UTIs by more than half and are safe for everyone, including cancer patients."
  },
  {
   "name": "Pain during sex",
   "timestamp": "48:06",
   "summary": "Up to 75% of women report painful sex at some point; Rubin lays out skin, muscle, nerve, and endometriosis causes and urges seeing a specialist rather than accepting pain."
  },
  {
   "name": "The orgasm gap, the clitoris and clitoral adhesion",
   "timestamp": "56:44",
   "summary": "Rubin describes the 'orgasm gap,' argues most women orgasm from the clitoris rather than penetration, and explains clitoral adhesion, which is undiagnosed but treatable."
  },
  {
   "name": "Pornography, arousal types and sex toys",
   "timestamp": "1:00:31",
   "summary": "Discussion of how pornography distorts expectations, spontaneous vs responsive arousal, vibrators, and Rubin's view that porn is not inherently bad but problematic when it involves deception or desensitization."
  },
  {
   "name": "Communication, scheduling sex and the sex recession",
   "timestamp": "1:13:40",
   "summary": "Rubin and Bartlett discuss the 'sex recession,' the spontaneity myth, scheduling sex and quarterly partner dates, body image, and communication as the foundation of good sex."
  },
  {
   "name": "Closing: biology matters and conflict resolution",
   "timestamp": "1:34:18",
   "summary": "Rubin's core message that biology is minimized in women's health and that education and communication, plus seeing conflict as 'no bad guy,' are what make relationships and sex work."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "name": "Rachel Rubin",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Guest; urologist and sexual-medicine specialist arguing for women's hormonal and sexual health"
  },
  {
   "name": "Steven Bartlett",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Host"
  },
  {
   "name": "women's sexual health",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Core subject; the medical domain Rubin argues is neglected"
  },
  {
   "name": "menopause",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Hormonal life stage central to the discussion"
  },
  {
   "name": "hormone replacement therapy",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "HRT; the contested treatment Rubin advocates broader access to"
  },
  {
   "name": "testosterone",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Hormone Rubin reframes as relevant to women and declining in the 30s"
  },
  {
   "name": "estrogen",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Key hormone in HRT and vaginal therapy"
  },
  {
   "name": "progesterone",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Hormone paired with estrogen to protect the uterus"
  },
  {
   "name": "clitoris",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Anatomy Rubin says is omitted from OBGYN training and is the source of most female orgasms"
  },
  {
   "name": "vaginal hormones",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Vaginal estrogen/DHEA Rubin says prevents UTIs and treats GSM"
  },
  {
   "name": "genitourinary syndrome of menopause",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "GSM; hormonal changes affecting the bladder and genitals"
  },
  {
   "name": "urinary tract infections",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "UTIs; preventable with vaginal hormones, can be fatal in the elderly"
  },
  {
   "name": "clitoral adhesion",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Condition where the clitoral hood adheres; treatable in-office"
  },
  {
   "name": "orgasm gap",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Disparity between women and men in orgasm frequency"
  },
  {
   "name": "libido",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Sexual desire affected by hormones and medications"
  },
  {
   "name": "birth control",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Lowers testosterone; possible libido side effects"
  },
  {
   "name": "GLP-1",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Weight-loss drugs (Ozempic/Mounjaro) with reported sexual side effects"
  },
  {
   "name": "Women's Health Initiative",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Early-2000s NIH study whose misinterpretation stigmatized HRT"
  },
  {
   "name": "pelvic floor",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Muscle group affecting pain, arousal, and orgasm"
  },
  {
   "name": "pornography",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Discussed re: distorted sexual expectations and relationships"
  },
  {
   "name": "arousal",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Spontaneous vs responsive arousal types"
  },
  {
   "name": "relationships",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Communication and conflict resolution as keys to good sex"
  },
  {
   "name": "sex recession",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Rubin's framing of declining sexual activity"
  },
  {
   "name": "Melinda Gates",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Cited example of an affluent woman who struggled to get HRT; funded the Menopause Society"
  },
  {
   "name": "Oprah",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Cited example of delayed menopause diagnosis"
  },
  {
   "name": "Halle Berry",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Cited example misdiagnosed with herpes instead of GSM"
  },
  {
   "name": "Mark Cuban",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "His pharmacy sells the estradiol cream cheaply"
  },
  {
   "name": "estradiol cream",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Vaginal estrogen cream demonstrated on the show"
  },
  {
   "name": "DHEA",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Vaginal precursor hormone converting to estrogen and testosterone"
  },
  {
   "name": "Intra Rosa",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "FDA-approved vaginal DHEA product"
  },
  {
   "name": "Viagra",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Comparison point; vaginal estrogen described as 'better than Viagra'"
  },
  {
   "name": "Pornhub",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Cited for its male-skewed traffic"
  },
  {
   "name": "Heated Rivalry",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "HBO show cited as 'porn for women'"
  },
  {
   "name": "NIH",
   "type": "organization",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Funded the Women's Health Initiative"
  },
  {
   "name": "Menopause Society",
   "type": "organization",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Received $10 million from Melinda Gates"
  },
  {
   "name": "American Urologic Association",
   "type": "organization",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Rubin co-wrote vaginal-hormone guidelines"
  },
  {
   "name": "AI",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Speculation about future sex robots"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Vaginal estrogen cream used twice a week relieves painful, dry sex and improves arousal and orgasm, and is better than Viagra.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.9,
   "subjects": [
    "vaginal hormones",
    "women's sexual health",
    "estradiol cream"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:09",
   "quote": "it makes sex not painful and dry, it helps with arousal and orgasm. It's literally better than Viagra."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Using vaginal hormones twice a week can prevent death from urinary tract infections.",
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   ],
   "timestamp": "35:36",
   "quote": "if you do that twice a week, you can prevent death from urinary tract infections"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Most women orgasm from the clitoris, not from penetration, contrary to common belief.",
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   "timestamp": "1:09",
   "quote": "Women think that orgasm comes from penetration, but their clitoris is how most women orgasm."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "The word 'clitoris' is not in the OBGYN training checklist in 2026.",
   "stance": "assertion",
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   "subjects": [
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   "timestamp": "8:31",
   "quote": "the word clitoris today in 2026 does not exist in the checklist for what an OBGYN has to learn in their training"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Women's hormonal and sexual health is not taught in medical schools or residencies.",
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   "timestamp": "4:25",
   "quote": "We don't teach it in medical schools. We don't teach it in residencies. I didn't learn anything about it."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Testosterone is not a 'male hormone' — it is simply a hormone that women make too.",
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   "timestamp": "13:24",
   "quote": "Testosterone is just a hormone. It's not a male hormone, a female, it's just a hormone."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
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   "timestamp": "13:24",
   "quote": "This happens in your 30s and no one's paying attention."
  },
  {
   "holder": "consensus",
   "reported_by": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "There is global consensus that testosterone helps libido in post-menopausal women.",
   "stance": "fact_cited",
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   "timestamp": "19:47",
   "quote": "we have global consensus, actually, that testosterone helps for libido in post-menopausal women"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Birth control lowers testosterone, which can cause low libido and pain with sex in a subset of women.",
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   "timestamp": "13:24",
   "quote": "one of the side effects is it lowers testosterone. And so that can cause low libido, pain with sex in a small subset of people who take it."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "The Women's Health Initiative was badly misinterpreted; below age 70 that type of hormone therapy has no increased cardiovascular or stroke risk.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.9,
   "subjects": [
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   "timestamp": "28:36",
   "quote": "It was wild how misinterpreted this study was...below age 70, that type of hormone therapy, which we don't really use anymore, has no increased risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Vaginal hormones are safe for everyone, including people with cancer, blood clots, or strokes, and could save lives.",
   "stance": "assertion",
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   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "timestamp": "38:37",
   "quote": "If you've had cancer, blood clot, stroke, any problems at all, vaginal hormones are safe and could save your life."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Common UTI-prevention advice like peeing after sex and wiping front to back is folklore, not data-driven.",
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   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "timestamp": "38:37",
   "quote": "Pee after sex, wipe from front to back.\nLike that's not data driven, by the way. That's all a folk tale."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Research has shown since the 1990s that vaginal hormones prevent UTIs by more than half.",
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   "subjects": [
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    "urinary tract infections"
   ],
   "timestamp": "33:28",
   "quote": "research has been clear since the 1990s that using vaginal hormones prevent UTIs, urinary tract infections, by more than half"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Hormone therapy need not be for every woman, but every woman should have access to the full toolbox.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "hormone replacement therapy",
    "menopause"
   ],
   "timestamp": "30:25",
   "quote": "every woman should have access to the toolbox"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "No probiotic does for the vaginal microbiome what hormones do.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "vaginal hormones"
   ],
   "timestamp": "33:28",
   "quote": "there's no probiotic on earth that has proven to do what the vagina needs quite like hormones"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Removing clitoral adhesions in a simple office procedure improves orgasm, arousal, and satisfaction by up to 60-70%.",
   "stance": "fact_cited",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "clitoral adhesion",
    "clitoris"
   ],
   "timestamp": "58:45",
   "quote": "we published data that if you remove these adhesions in an office based very simple procedure, we saw improvements in orgasm, arousal and satisfaction up to 60 to 70%"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "There is an orgasm gap — about 20% of women say they cannot orgasm — and the main cause is poor education.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "orgasm gap"
   ],
   "timestamp": "56:44",
   "quote": "about 20% of women will say that they can't have an orgasm...I think the majority of problem is education"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Pornography is not inherently bad; whether it's harmful depends on the relationship and context.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "pornography",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:08:17",
   "quote": "I don't think porn in and of itself is bad."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Having the woman orgasm first allows pelvic floor release that makes penetration more pleasurable.",
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   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "timestamp": "1:28:19",
   "quote": "orgasm first will allow for pelvic floor release and relaxation, which will make penetration more pleasurable"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Society is in a 'sex recession' with people having less sex than ever.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
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    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:33:29",
   "quote": "we're in a sex recession, okay? People are having less sex than ever."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Biology is minimized in women's sexual health relative to psychosocial factors, and doctors need to be trained to care about it.",
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   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "timestamp": "1:34:18",
   "quote": "we minimise biology when it comes to women and we have to let women advocate for themselves about the biology"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "In an over-scheduled modern society, couples should schedule sex.",
   "stance": "opinion",
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   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "timestamp": "1:29:30",
   "quote": "there's a big opportunity for people in our modern society, which is over scheduled to schedule sex"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "The idea that sex should be spontaneous is a myth, not how real relationships work.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "arousal",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:30:50",
   "quote": "It's just not real. It's just the same as WWF."
  },
  {
   "holder": "consensus",
   "reported_by": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Many practitioners argue that female sexual problems are all about communication and psychosocial factors.",
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   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "timestamp": "16:14",
   "quote": "I'll have a lot of people saying, no, no, no, it's all communication"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "In women's health, doctors paternalistically tell women what they can and cannot have even when they don't know the data, unlike in men's health.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
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    "women's sexual health"
   ],
   "timestamp": "5:46",
   "quote": "with hormone therapy in women's health, every doctor you go see has strong opinions and will tell women what they can and cannot have with their bodies, even when they don't know the data"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Rubin's theory is that the minority of women who orgasm quickly from penetration are those with unusually sensitive body parts, paralleling premature ejaculation in men.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.4,
   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "timestamp": "1:05:13",
   "quote": "I just have this theory that there are women who have extra sensitive body parts."
  }
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  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "prediction": "AI sex robots will be able to do exactly what a person wants, raising concerns for intimacy and real relationships.",
   "timeframe": "unspecified",
   "subjects": [
    "AI",
    "women's sexual health",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:22:36",
   "quote": "You're going to have a sex robot who's going to be able to do exactly what you want and the way that you want to do it."
  }
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 "facts": [
  {
   "statement": "Only 1.7% of women who should be offered hormone therapy prescriptions are getting them.",
   "subjects": [
    "hormone replacement therapy"
   ],
   "value": "1.7%",
   "timestamp": "28:36",
   "quote": "Only 1.7% of women are getting prescriptions for hormone therapy, who should be offered prescriptions.",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Published data shows less than 9% of Medicare patients get prescriptions for hormone therapy.",
   "subjects": [
    "hormone replacement therapy"
   ],
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   "timestamp": "44:29",
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   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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   ],
   "value": ">75%",
   "timestamp": "44:29",
   "quote": "More than 75% of people in large database collections are not getting prescriptions for this.",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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  {
   "statement": "The vaginal estrogen cream costs $14 on Mark Cuban's pharmacy and lasts about two and a half months.",
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    "Mark Cuban"
   ],
   "value": "$14",
   "timestamp": "34:32",
   "quote": "this cream is $14 on Mark Cuban's Pharmacy, and it lasts about two and a half months",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Up to 75% of women say sex is painful at some point in their life.",
   "subjects": [
    "women's sexual health"
   ],
   "value": "up to 75%",
   "timestamp": "48:06",
   "quote": "up to 75% of women will say at some point in their life, sex is painful",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
  },
  {
   "statement": "A survey of 1,000 women found about 25% report sexual side effects from GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.",
   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "value": "~25%",
   "timestamp": "18:43",
   "quote": "We surveyed 1,000 women online who have taken these medications, and about 25% report sexual side effects from these medications.",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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  {
   "statement": "Some studies find up to 27% of people on birth control report a decrease in libido.",
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   "timestamp": "17:34",
   "quote": "up to 27% of people on birth control report a decrease in their libido slash sex drive",
   "source": "Steven Bartlett"
  },
  {
   "statement": "About a billion dollars went into the NIH-funded Women's Health Initiative study of hormones in women.",
   "subjects": [
    "Women's Health Initiative",
    "NIH"
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   "value": "$1 billion",
   "timestamp": "28:36",
   "quote": "a billion dollars went into the NIH to study this in women. And it was called the Women's Health Initiative.",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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   "statement": "Normal menopausal age is 45 to 55 with an average of 52.",
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   "value": "45-55; avg 52",
   "timestamp": "21:47",
   "quote": "If menopause, we say is 45 to 55, is normal menopausal age, average age is 52",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
  },
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   "statement": "The clitoris has 10,000 nerve endings.",
   "subjects": [
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   "value": "10,000 nerve endings",
   "timestamp": "1:01:29",
   "quote": "we know that clitoris has 10,000 nerve endings",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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  {
   "statement": "On average men last about five and a half minutes during penetrative sex.",
   "subjects": [
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   "value": "~5.5 minutes",
   "timestamp": "1:27:04",
   "quote": "about five and a half minutes is on average how long men last, right?",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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   "statement": "About 8% of men orgasm in a minute or less.",
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   "timestamp": "1:05:13",
   "quote": "There are men who orgasm in a minute or less. That's probably like 8% of men.",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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   "statement": "Menopause is defined as 12 consecutive months without a period.",
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   "value": "12 months",
   "timestamp": "39:40",
   "quote": "which is defined as 12 consecutive months without your period",
   "source": "Steven Bartlett"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Between 10% and 20% of US women suffer from persistent chronic pain during sex.",
   "subjects": [
    "women's sexual health"
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   "value": "10-20%",
   "timestamp": "50:02",
   "quote": "Between 10% and 20% of US women suffer from persistent chronic pain during sex.",
   "source": "Steven Bartlett"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Roughly 65% of Pornhub's traffic is men.",
   "subjects": [
    "Pornhub",
    "pornography"
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   "value": "~65%",
   "timestamp": "1:06:39",
   "quote": "roughly 65% of their traffic is men",
   "source": "Steven Bartlett"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Heated Rivalry is an HBO show released in 2026 about two gay male hockey players that went viral, described as 'porn for women.'",
   "subjects": [
    "Heated Rivalry",
    "pornography"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:08:17",
   "quote": "Heated Rivalry is an HBO show that came out this year.",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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   "statement": "The vaginal estrogen cream is estradiol cream.",
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   "timestamp": "35:30",
   "quote": "It's estradiol cream.",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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   "statement": "Vaginal DHEA converts to estrogen and testosterone and is sold as the FDA-approved product Intra Rosa.",
   "subjects": [
    "DHEA",
    "Intra Rosa"
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   "timestamp": "37:06",
   "quote": "this is an FDA approved product, it's called Intra Rosa",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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   "statement": "Melinda Gates had to see three doctors before getting proper hormone therapy prescriptions.",
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   "timestamp": "4:25",
   "quote": "Melinda Gates just came out and said she had to see three doctors before she got proper hormone therapy prescriptions.",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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   "statement": "Oprah saw five doctors who failed to connect her heart palpitations to perimenopause and menopause.",
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   "timestamp": "4:25",
   "quote": "Oprah had to see five doctors and still they didn't understand that her heart palpitations was from perimenopause and menopause.",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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   "statement": "Halle Berry was told she had genital herpes when she actually had genitourinary syndrome of menopause.",
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   "quote": "she publicly came out and said she was diagnosed with genital herpes when she really just had the genitourinary syndrome of menopause",
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   "statement": "Melinda Gates gave $10 million to the Menopause Society.",
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    "Menopause Society"
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   "timestamp": "5:46",
   "quote": "Melinda Gates giving $10 million to the Menopause Society",
   "source": "Rachel Rubin"
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   "statement": "Cited data put the spontaneous arousal rate at about 70% in men versus 10-15% in women.",
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   "value": "men ~70%, women 10-15%",
   "timestamp": "1:17:54",
   "quote": "their spontaneous rate in men is about 70%, whereas in women it's about 10-15%",
   "source": "Steven Bartlett"
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   "statement": "Clitoral adhesion, where the hood gets stuck to the head, occurs about 23% of the time.",
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   "timestamp": "58:45",
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   "speaker": "Rachel Rubin",
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   "speaker": "Rachel Rubin",
   "timestamp": "8:31",
   "quote": "The word clitoris today in 2026 does not exist in the checklist for what an OBGYN has to learn in their training. The word doesn't exist.",
   "why": "Crystallizes her core indictment of medical training on women's sexual health."
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   "speaker": "Rachel Rubin",
   "timestamp": "3:55",
   "quote": "I am filled with rage because I do think that people are limiting their ability to have great sex, great relationships, and great health because they aren't having access to all the information that they could.",
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   "speaker": "Rachel Rubin",
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