Encore: In the Shadow of Damaged Parents

Encore: In the Shadow of Damaged Parents

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Dear Sugars presents: "The Midnight Rebellion," a new adventure fiction podcast

From the WBUR Podcasts team, here's a new kind of story — one that's all about choices and consequences. The Midnight Rebellion is a pick-your-own-path podcast set 100 years in the future, where the stakes are nothing less than the planet itself. It's fiction rooted in real scien ...  Show more

Repost: Sex & Aging

This episode was originally released on May 25th, 2018. When two women in their sixties start losing interest in sex, their sex-starved partners become increasingly frustrated. Both women blame old age for their waning libidos. But is their diminished sex drive because of age or ...  Show more

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