Diaries of a Broken Vagina: Female Sexual Dysfunction with Fran Bushe

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10/04/22 • 45 min

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7 of Mads World, kicking off with Episode 1: Diaries of a Broken Vagina, Female Sexual Dysfunction with Fran Bushe!

This episode of Mads World is sponsored by Beducated. CLICK HERE: http://beducate.me/bg2244-mads to check them out for a 24 hour free trial and use the code MADS for 40% off their yearly subscription.

Fran Bushe is an award-winning comedian, writer and performer who has had sold-out runs at Soho Theatre and The Roundhouse. She's written features for The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Metro and been a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

I invited Fran to chat on the pod about her book: My Broken Vagina. The book follows her funny, moving, and sometimes awkward quest to fix her sex life. It mirrors the story of millions of women everywhere - with half of all women having felt pain during sex.

During Fran's journey towards a better relationship with her genitals, doctors advised her to have a glass of wine to loosen up, and male friends suggested she simply hadn't 'tried' the right penis yet. Unsurprisingly, neither worked.

After a visit to Sex Camp and many attempts to fix her 'broken' vagina, Fran decided to share her own hilarious, excruciating, and sometimes upsetting experiences. With the help of her 16 year old self's diary, expert advice, candid and enlightening interviews with others about sex, and some self-care exercises, Fran sets about trying to make herself, and other people, feel like they're not being gaslit by their own vaginas.

In this episode, we chat about female sexual dysfunction and the variations, vaginismus, self-esteem and mental health, staying present and much more!

Submit your dating questions through madsworld.mp3, and my guests and I will answer them on the show! You will remain anonymous.

All names within stories have been changed unless explicitly said so within the show.

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Cover Art: Veredien

Music: The.Jones.Project_93

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7 of Mads World, kicking off with Episode 1: Diaries of a Broken Vagina, Female Sexual Dysfunction with Fran Bushe!

In this episode, we chat about female sexual dysfunction and the variations, vaginismus, self-esteem and mental health, staying present and much more!

Submit your dating questions through madsworld.mp3, and my guests and I will answer them on the show! You will remain anonymous.

All names within stories have been changed unless explicitly said so within the show.

Click here to support the show for the price of a coffee.

Cover Art: Veredien

Music: The.Jones.Project_93

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Submit your dating questions through madsworld.mp3, and my guests and I will answer them on the show! You will remain anonymous.

All names within stories have been changed unless explicitly said so within the show.

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Ickspert Opinion: The Little Book of Ick with Kitty Winks & Anna Burtt

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 2 of Mads World: Ickspert Opinion! The Little Book of Ick with Anna Burtt & Kitty Winks.

This episode of Mads World is sponsored by Beducated. CLICK HERE: http://beducate.me/pd2240-mads to check them out for a 24-hour free trial and use the code MADS for 40% off their yearly subscription.

In this episode I am joined by the wonderful Kitty Winks and Anna Burtt to talk all about their new book The Little Book of Ick. Kitty Winks is one of Instagram's sassiest book bloggers, known for her brutally honest opinions and refusal to conform to the norm. Like many respectable Gen Zs, Kitty now works at a tech start-up after having previously worked as a bookseller and museum guide. Anna Burtt has worked in publishing for almost a decade and is currently Head of Events at a global writing consultancy. She is the host of The Brighton Book Club on Radio Reverb and has run a successful writing group for the last four years. she's recently finished her first novel, which is set in Yorkshire and explores grief, sexuality, intergenerational friendships and drag.

We all know The Ick. You've been dating someone for a while and you notice something about them that turns your stomach. It might be something weird or unremarkable, it might even be something you do yourself. Whatever it is, once you've got the ick there's no going back from it and, for better or worse, it's onto the next swipe.

The Little Book of Ick is a celebration of the dating phenomenon that plagues millions. Split into chapters that chart all the stages of finding love, this book is a collection of 500 hilarious icks: some you'll have already encountered, all ready for you to use when you need to get over someone.

Up next we chat about our favourite Ick’s, hopefully providing reassurance that it’s fine to be fussy, and how leaning into the ick might even soothe your heartbreak one day.

Submit your dating questions through madsworld.mp3, and my guests and I will answer them on the show! You will remain anonymous.

All names within stories have been changed unless explicitly said so within the show.

Click here to support the show for the price of a coffee.

Cover Art: Veredien

Music: The.Jones.Project_93