Good Girls

In this episode of Good Girls, we review the classic sex-positive bible The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy. We discuss what it was like reading this foundational (and delightfully cringy) book written by old hippie occasional lovers, and how their boomer perspectives on sluttiness, non-monogamy, consent, jealousy, and pleasure landed with us as monogamous women. We explore the book’...

We read Esther Perel’s Mating in Captivity and came out the other side with way more questions than answers, and a whole new appreciation for erotic fruit bats. In this episode, we talk why steamy romance in marriage is a surprisingly modern invention, how uncertainty and separateness fuel desire, and why the very things that make a great partnership (equality, familiarity, teamwork) can sometimes...

After talking about AI-generated romance, we put AI's romance-writing abilities to the test with ridiculous prompts, questionable book concepts, and a few attempts at crafting the perfect sex scene. From billionaire bosses and secretaries to unhinged romantasy plots, we're sharing the best, worst, and weirdest results we could get from AI. ...With a magical sentient butt plug with anxiety...

In this episode of Good Girls, we talk about the New York Times article "The New Fabio is Claude" and how AI is shaking up the romance industry. We discuss Coral Hart, the author churning out 200 AI-assisted romance novels a year under multiple pen names, and share our honest reactions after reading her work. We break down what feels missing in AI-generated stories...that human connectio...

We rewatch of the early 2000s teen drama The O.C. and break down the things that aged surprisingly well...iconic Y2K fashion, Seth/Ryan bromance, Sandy & Kirsten’s awesome marriage, and killer soundtrack. But we don’t hold back on what didn’t age well...ridiculous financial plot holes that somehow predicted the subprime mortgage crisis, questionable women’s workwear, wild age inconsistencies,...

We’re back with another round of bad sex advice, where we dive into relatable (mostly...few curveballs thrown in) Reddit sex questions and give our zero-credentials take. From the virgin who’s scared her fast-and-hard clit rubbing style will exhaust guys’ wrists, to the woman wondering if she’s even had an orgasm because she doesn’t “explode into a million pieces,” we break it all down with help f...

In this spicy Good Girls episode, we dive into the science and fantasy of female orgasms. We break down the hilarious and illuminating study “She Exploded Into a Million Pieces,” which analyzed 20 years of RWA award-winning romance novels, complete with violent imagery, “little deaths,” male sexual superpowers, and dramatic shattering climaxes. We also talk squirting vs. female ejaculation, the bi...

On this episode of Good Girls, we jump into Evie Magazine, the glossy, sexy “Cosmo for conservatives." Evie serves tradwife realness with low-cut milkmaid dresses, husband-pleasing lap dance tutorials, and a whole lot of “feel sexy by embracing your femininity” advice. We break down their wild takes on birth control (hello, pullout method), why rich women supposedly fake more orgasms (evidenc...

We went deep into the mysterious world of the G-spot this week. Armed with skepticism, Cosmo articles, smutty book recaps, and a whole lot of actual science, we talk the history, the hype, and the reality of this legendary erogenous zone. From Freud’s vaginal orgasm obsession and Kinsey’s groundbreaking (and savage) research, to Masters and Johnson’s glass dildo camera, Dr. Helen O’Connell’s clito...

We sit down with Danielle Frank and talk about her playful take on parenting through the lens of wine. We talk about how wine snobbery is all silliness and her career path from PR to the wine industry. We dive into her adult children's book, A Wine Lover’s Guide to Parenting. It's full of useful wine tips and a lightheartedness...think cheery fun with pictures versus a 400-page textbook on the way...

Happy spring, good girls...when the air gets warmer, trees get jizzy, and the reading choices get… questionable. In this episode, we discuss romance novellas that fully deserve the smut label. Kay went deep into Jessa Kane's porny novellas full of problematic age gaps and worrisome power dynamics galore, and...kinda loved it??? We debate the necessity of happily-ever-afters in these purely spi...

Hey everyone, we are diving headfirst into the weird and infuriating history of the female orgasm. We start with the big question that kicked this off: why don’t we have a complete picture of the clitoris and female pleasure until basically our lifetimes? Perhaps because for centuries, a whole lot of men decided women were just passive penis-shaped receptacles, and they really weren’t looking (or...

We spill the spiked tea on all things Bridgerton...books, show seasons, and the highly questionable consent dynamics that somehow still deliver pure escapism. SJ dives deep while Kay experiences it all for the first time (no prior books or full seasons watched...up until the last 2 weeks), leading to debates over Daphne’s under-the-table sperm-jacking, Simon’s pull-out game, Anthony’s bee-sting ti...

We dive into Rachel E. Gross’s fascinating book Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage . We explore how little science and society still know about female anatomy, from the clitoris’s sole purpose of pleasure to outdated treatments like boric acid (basically rat poison), and the long history of treating women’s bodies as mysterious “shame parts." Along the way, we talk serious business like the...

In this episode of Good Girls , we talk about the Bachelor franchise’s latest disaster: ABC casting (and then abruptly canceling) Taylor Frankie Paul as the new Bachelorette just three days before premiere after a disturbing 2023 domestic violence video resurfaced. We discuss the full mess...Taylor’s chair-throwing incident, the allegations of reactive abuse on both sides, ABC’s questionable due d...

We kicked off thinking we'd just lightly roast some overly polished Christian mom influencers, but oh boy, did the Instagram algorithm have other plans. We got stuck in a tradwife/biblical womanhood rabbit hole...SJ with a fresh fake profile starting from "stay-at-home mommy" searches, Kay with her own personal one tainted by years of smut and chaos, and surfaced with everything from...

In this episode, we dive into the question: are we really living through a “smut renaissance”? After reading a recent New York Times article on the rise of romance, erotica, and romantasy by Amanda Hess, we wanted to push back on a few of its more negative assumptions. We talk about how smut actually fits into women’s lives: whether it replaces sex, enhances relationships, or just provides a littl...

Hey there, Good Girls! If the news cycle has you needing a serious brain break and even your usual romantasy escape feels too grounded in reality (looking at you, 500-year-old fairies hitting on 20-year-olds), we've got the perfect unhinged palate cleanser. This week, we enter the gloriously weird world of sentient object romance...books where everyday inanimate objects gain sentience, romance...

Hey! This week we talk about the US men’s hockey locker room FaceTime disaster. You know the one: the president cracks a ‘joke’ about inviting the women’s team only if he’s impeached, everyone laughs along, and then most of the guys show up for the photo op anyway. We break down the fight/flight/flock response, and why we’re still talking about it days later...it’s not just this one thing—it’s the...

Join us and special guest Lulu, a fabulous flight attendant with 10 years of sky-high stories, for the juiciest, grossest, and funniest tales from the friendly skies. From dentures on tray tables and sleep-jerking passengers to Mile High Club realities (spoiler: those bathrooms are a hard pass), wild layover dick appointments, and the real scoop on slutty pilots vs. crew hookups. Plus essential ha...

Enjoy your Olympics viewing with our deep dive into why Olympians have always been... extra horny. From the original ancient Greek Games where men trained and competed buck-naked (gymnasium = "place to exercise nude," obviously), complete with kynodesme strings to keep things "tasteful" (highly recommend looking this up), oiled-up wrestling, and all sorts of questionable activi...

Happy Presidents' Day, Good Girls! In this special holiday episode, we cover the messy sex scandals of U.S. presidents who turned the Oval Office into their personal playground. We ranking the skankiest (reappropriating that word for problematic men) commanders-in-chief based on their extramarital exploits, power imbalances, and sheer audacity. From Warren G. Harding's cringe-worthy love l...

We talk on "Are We Dating the Same Guy?" Facebook groups and apps. These sites are chaotic digital confessionals where women roast guys for everything from actual cheating to...not buying something on their Amazon wish-list?? From one-off drunk-cry dates that scream "red flag" (but aren't) to real cheaters like sneaky pilots and hospital hookups, we debate the line between...

Join us on the Good Girls Podcast as we gear up for Super Bowl Sunday with zero shame, starting off with a dip into NFL FanFic - KissMyTightEnd, we see you there on AAO3! We match up NFL quarterbacks with pop culture characters...ranging from Gandalf to Mulan to Gollum (we will go ahead and give away, that's Aaron Rodgers). We then pivot to peak pop culture chaos in our new "Am I the Assh...

In this week's episode of Good Girls, we talk about the conversations sparked by Ashley Tisdale's viral essay on The Cut about craving a "mom village" only to feel sidelined by a mom celeb group - think Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore, and Megan Trainor. We get it, that'd be our #1 mom group choice, too. But, we aren't too into the idea of letting yourself feel excluded by one, single closed mom group wh...