Shameless Care Podcast
The Shameless Care Podcast delivers honest, sex-positive conversations about sexual health, STI testing, and relationships—without fear or shame. Hosted by the founder and a practicing medical provider, it’s where real talk meets real medicine.
Episodes
55 episodes
The Science Behind Your Sex Questions: Pre-Cum, Swallowing, Pregnancy and More.
In today’s episode, we may have our best Dirty Joke of the Week ever.Oh — and we’re also answering six sexy questions with real science.What exactly is pre-ejaculate?How likely is pregnancy after a vasectomy?How fast do sperm di...
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Episode 55
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47:08
Biome Swap You Absorb Everyone You Sleep With
You become a part of everyone you have sex with and everyone you have sex with becomes a part of you. That is not poetry. That is biology. There are more bacterial cells in your body than human cells and more viral particles than both of those ...
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Episode 54
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37:19
The Truth About Certified Labs And Your STI Tests
In this episode Robert and Anna take you inside the world of CLIA certified labs, the invisible backbone of every STI test in the United States. If you have ever wondered how a lab earns its certification, who oversees it, what standards they m...
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Episode 53
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42:08
Pilgrim Sex Lives They Stuffed More Than A Turkey Or Two
This episode is your invitation to the side of Thanksgiving that no teacher ever mentioned. Robert and Anna pull back the curtain on the Puritans and reveal a world that was a whole lot less pure than the myths. These were people who preached r...
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Episode 52
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44:53
Viagra vs Cialis. The Real Differences No One Explains
Today we break down the pharmacology that every man should know. Sildenafil and tadalafil belong to the same class of medications, but they behave very differently. We cover the evolutionary path from early cardiovascular research to the discov...
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Episode 51
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37:48
FDA Removes Female Hormone Therapy Warning. The Science Finally Caught Up
The FDA just removed the long standing warning on female hormone replacement therapy. For more than twenty years women were told that HRT carried major dangers, but the science has changed and the original fear was based on misinterpreted data....
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Episode 50
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40:10
When Doctors Became Villains: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Most people think the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a secret government experiment uncovered by a brave whistleblower. It wasn’t. For forty years, the U.S. Public Health Service openly studied hundreds of Black men in Alabama who had syphilis—wit...
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Episode 49
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37:20
When Your Skin Catches Feelings: Molluscum Explained
You’ve feared a virus that causes sores on your skin ever since you started having sex — but it probably wasn’t this one.Today, we’re talking about Molluscum Contagiosum — which is contagious, in case the name didn’t give it away.
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Episode 48
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36:12
Oxytocin: Love Potion or Placebo?!
Robert and Anna get shameless about oxytocin — the hormone that makes you cum, cuddle, and occasionally catch feelings you didn’t order. It’s nature’s love potion, but now science is selling it by the spray bottle. Does synthetic oxytocin actua...
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Episode 47
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45:50
Trimix: The Inventor Showed His Penis on Stage — and That Was the Tame Part
In 1983, British physiologist Dr. Giles Brindley walked onto a medical conference stage, dropped his pants, and revealed a full erection — all in the name of science. That legendary (and unbelievably awkward) moment became the birth of modern i...
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Episode 46
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38:36
Condoms, the FDA, and the Magnum Myth
Condoms have been around for thousands of years — but the modern version you trust every day? That’s the work of the FDA. Yes the FDA regulates condoms...and surprisingly has helped. In this episode, we dive into the sur...
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Episode 45
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39:53
Mycoplasma Genitalium vs. Ureaplasma: Which One’s an STI and Why It Matters
www.shamelesscare.com for all your sexual health needs. Mycoplasma genitalium is a sexually transmitted infection. Ureaplasma, on the other hand, is usually just a normal part of the human biome — yet the two are constantly confused...
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Episode 44
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33:17
Exercise… Keeps You Wet in More Ways Than One
Visit www.shamelesscare.com for all your sexual healthcare needs. Let’s be honest—exercise keeps you wet in more ways than one.In this episode of the Shameless Care Podcast, Robert and Anna break down how movement, muscle, a...
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Episode 43
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31:35
9 Myths About STIs Even Doctors Believe
www.shamelesscare.com for all your sexual health needs.Think you know the facts about STIs? Even some doctors don’t. In this episode, Robert and Anna debunk nine of the biggest myths about STI testing, symptoms, and transmission — and ex...
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Episode 42
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52:42
Bottoms Up! The Science of Anal Sex!
Welcome to Bottoms Up! The Science of Anal Sex — the episode where we finally talk about what everyone’s doing, thinking about doing, or pretending not to do.Join Robert, founder of Shameless Care, and Anna, a PA in oncology and co-host...
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Episode 41
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42:51
Vibrators, Circumcision & Breast Size — What the Science Really Says
Welcome to another unapologetically honest episode of The Shameless Care Podcast, where science, sex, and sanity actually meet.This week, Robert and Anna dive head-first into three of the most controversial topics in sexual health: vibr...
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Episode 40
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30:06
Aphrodisiacs: What Actually Works (and What’s Total Nonsense)
Everyone’s heard the stories — oysters, chocolate, red wine, rhinoceros horn (please don’t). But do aphrodisiacs really work, or is it all in your head — and bloodstream?In this episode, Robert and Anna dig into the science (and the sca...
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Episode 39
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43:27
30% of Men Lose Erections Because of Condoms — And What Happens Next Is a Public-Health Nightmare
www.shamelesscare.com for all your sexual health needs.About 30% of men experience condom-induced erectile dysfunction — losing erections from the act of putting on or using a condom. That part makes sense to anyone with a penis. What’s ...
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Episode 38
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29:47
HPV Vaccine in the U.S.: Myths, Facts, and Why It Matters
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, with nearly 80% of people exposed at some point in their lives. While most infections clear on their own, certain HPV types can cause genital...
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Episode 37
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36:02
FSA or HSA? The Threesome of Acronyms Nobody Told You Could Be Sexy
When it comes to your sexy life, few things are as seductive as a little extra freedom — whether that’s between the sheets or at the pharmacy counter. That’s why we’re slipping into something a little naughtier this week: HSA vs. FSA. Don’t wor...
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Episode 36
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36:08
Everything Is Simple to a Simpleton. How public health slogans like "use a condom" can misinform.
Public health loves a slogan. “Condoms equal safe sex.” “Just say no.” “Seatbelts save lives.” They’re short, sticky, and persuasive — and they work. Many more people buckle up today than ever before because of decades of relentless messaging. ...
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Episode 35
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39:53
The End of STI Fear: Sex Has Never Been Safer
It’s the age of free love — if you want it to be.We live in a time when science and medicine have finally caught up with human desire. Thanks to modern medicine, every single STI is either curable, preventable, or completely manageable....
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Episode 34
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43:53
Moan Science 101: Are Moans Performative, Learned, or Uncontrollable?
Why do we moan during sex? Is it a natural, biological reflex… or something we’ve learned from culture, porn, and partners? Are moans performative — signals meant to turn on someone else — or are they raw, uncontrollable expressions of pleasure...
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Episode 33
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32:39
The ABCs of Hepatitis: What You Really Need to Know About Hep A, Hep B & Hep C
Welcome to The Shameless Care Podcast! In this episode, Robert (founder of Shameless Care) and the brilliant, ever-insightful Anna sit down to unpack one of the most confusing, fear-inducing, and wildly misunderstood topics in sexual health: he...
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Episode 32
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28:34
Just Desserts: Why we want sinners to suffer and how it impacts every aspect of sexual health
Have you ever cheered when a scammer got scammed?Have you ever laughed when an anti-LGBTQ politician was caught in a gay sex scandal?That little thrill you feel isn’t random — it’s human nature. Across every culture, every story, ev...
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Episode 31
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33:10