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Yumi Stynes

Want to know how to close the orgasm gap? Riding your hormonal rollercoaster blindfolded? Feel like kicking your mental load to the kerb? You're not the only one.

Ladies, We Need To Talk dives headfirst into the tricky topics we often avoid talking about, like our alcohol consumption, the struggles of monogamy and the wonders of our vaginas.

With sensitivity, personal stories, and serious smarts, this show is for women who feel the squeeze between work, their private life, and their pelvic floor.

Join host Yumi Stynes as she tears open the sealed section on life.

Email us at ladies@abc.net.au.

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Calling all virgins, we need your help!

It's a brand new year ladies and we'd love your input for our very first episode of 2024! Did you know the average age for someone to lose their virginity in Australia is 18 years-old? But what if, for whatever reason, you've made it well into…

Published: SunSun 4 Feb 2024 at 1:00pmwith Yumi Stynes

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Duration: 1 minute 7 seconds

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Dr Jayashri Kulkarni — Female rage

It’s no secret as women we’ve got a hell of a lot to be furious about.

Published: 4 Dec 2023Mon 4 Dec 2023 at 3:00pmwith Yumi Stynes

Professor Deborah Bateson - Pongy vagina

Whether we like it or not our minge can sometimes be stinky as. But those smells can sometimes veer from a delicate musk to a full on fishy vag.

Duration: 22 minutes 29 seconds

Published: 4 Dec 2023Mon 4 Dec 2023 at 3:00pmwith Yumi Stynes

Jessie Stephens - Heartbreak

Breakups are rough and sometimes they can be so bad they feel physically painful. If there’s one person who understands the utter devastation of heartbreak, it’s author Jessie Stephens.

Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds

Published: 4 Dec 2023Mon 4 Dec 2023 at 3:00pmwith Yumi Stynes

Dr Debby Herbenick - Choking during sex

Choking was once the kinda thing you’d only come across in the world of BDSM, but now thanks to our easy access to porn it’s well and truly hit the mainstream.

Duration: 23 minutes 31 seconds

Published: 4 Dec 2023Mon 4 Dec 2023 at 3:00pmwith Yumi Stynes

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Published: 16 Oct 2023Mon 16 Oct 2023 at 5:21am

Further reading

Why more women are suggesting open relationships

Contrary to the stories we are told about male and female sexuality, it is actually women who are primarily asking for polyamorous and open relationships.

Three people laying on the ground smiling in a story about why more women are suggesting open relationships.

Published: 12 Oct 2020Mon 12 Oct 2020 at 1:30am

For our parent's generation, splitting up was a blood sport. Here's how we avoided that

Breaking up "well" isn't something you think about when you're in the flush of new love. But here's how I learnt to do it, writes Yumi Stynes.

A graphic of a woman holding the words 'break' and 'up' for an article about breaking up well.

Published: 8 Sep 2020Tue 8 Sep 2020 at 1:31am

The moment Claire realised why she couldn't teach her daughter about her body

Two decades after the first female urologist in Australia mapped the clitoris, there's still a lot of misinformation about this sex organ — and it's holding us back from experiencing pleasure.

Claire and Tessa Waters take a selfie

Published: 29 Jul 2020Wed 29 Jul 2020 at 8:20pm

Yumi has mastered the art of saying 'no'. Here's how it's done

Obligations are often perceived, not real. Let's face it, you not showing up to a birthday party probably won't break someone's heart, writes Yumi Stynes.

Yumi Stynes in front of a graphic with the words 'no' in the background in a story about learning how to say no.

Published: 14 Jul 2020Tue 14 Jul 2020 at 1:19am

Videos

Video: Women who cheat

Why are people drawn to affairs? Psychologist Rebekka Sommer explains how people feel when having an affair for the first time.

Couple in bed with the lights off.

Published: 27 Apr 2018Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 12:09am

Video: How many drinks did you have last night?

How many drinks did you have last night? Probably way more than you think.

Published: 4 Oct 2017Wed 4 Oct 2017 at 12:23am

Video: Dr Gemma Sharp

The number of Australian women undergoing cosmetic surgery on their genitals has increased threefold over the last decade — here's why that's concerning.

Dr Gemma Sharp

Published: 4 Oct 2017Wed 4 Oct 2017 at 12:25am

Video: Meet Dolly Doctor

Were you one of the thousands of Australian teenagers who wrote to Dolly Doctor? Dr Melissa Kang would have likely answered your question.

Yumi and 'Dolly Doctor' Melissa Kang

Published: 14 Sep 2017Thu 14 Sep 2017 at 5:20am

Bonus interviews

Bonus — Ellidy Pullin, Young Widows

Ellidy Pullin and her partner, Alex “Chumpy” Pullin were in the prime of their lives and planning their future together when the love of her life died suddenly.

Australian snowboarder and Olympian Alex Pullin with his girlfriend Ellidy Vlug and their dog Rummi on the beach.

Duration: 16 minutes 26 seconds

Published: 27 Apr 2023Thu 27 Apr 2023 at 1:56am

Dr Susan Evans – The rage in my pelvis

More than a million Australian women live with persistent pelvic pain, causing physical and psychological distress. As a gynaecologist and pain physician, Dr Susan Evans has seen the toll this pain takes on women and girls.

Duration: 20 minutes 5 seconds

Published: 27 Apr 2023Thu 27 Apr 2023 at 1:54am

Jamila Rizvi and Clare Bowditch – A love letter to our friends

A great friend is an anchor - a source of comfort, understanding and belly laughs.

Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds

Published: 27 Apr 2023Thu 27 Apr 2023 at 1:54am

Clementine Ford – Birth Trauma

One in three Australian women describe their birth as traumatic; writer Clementine ford is one of them.

Duration: 19 minutes 58 seconds

Published: 27 Apr 2023Thu 27 Apr 2023 at 1:53am

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