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Yumi Stynes

Sex, health, relationships: frank, funny, furious. Join host Yumi Stynes as she rips open the sealed section on life.

Ladies, We Need to Talk goes deep on the personal stuff that's hard to talk about, even with your closest mates.

From the wonders of our vulvas to managing the mental load to the search for orgasms and much more!

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.

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BEST OF—12 week rule

In life, there are a lot of random rules women stick to. One of them is not telling loved ones about a pregnancy until after the first trimester. But why??? The answer is more often than not, miscarriage.

Published: MonMon 22 Jul 2024 at 4:00pmwith Yumi Stynes

Duration: 26 minutes 26 seconds

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Hey Yumi! I’m in love but losing myself

Being in love feels so damn good, right? But what if you fall so deeply into your relationship, you start to forget who you are?

Duration: 12 minutes 4 seconds

Published: 15 Jul 2024Mon 15 Jul 2024 at 4:00pmwith Yumi Stynes

Hannah Ferguson—the case against hookup sex

Swipe left, swipe right, match, meet, hook up, repeat. We all know the dating dance, but is it really serving us as women? Enter Hannah Ferguson, the 25-year-old media queen who isn’t afraid to tell us how it is.

Duration: 23 minutes 7 seconds

Published: 8 Jul 2024Mon 8 Jul 2024 at 4:00pmwith Yumi Stynes

Hey Yumi! I'm tired of doing it all

Women bear the load of most of the invisible (thankless) work in a household. And that shit gets heavy.

Duration: 8 minutes 1 second

Published: 1 Jul 2024Mon 1 Jul 2024 at 4:00pmwith Yumi Stynes

Horny women

What if your appetite for sex was insatiable? Would you love to be boning every day, multiple times a day? There's this idea that it's men that are always lusting after sex.

Duration: 30 minutes

Published: 24 Jun 2024Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 4:00pmwith Yumi Stynes

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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 1:30amby Kellie Scott

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

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