# Straight talking, with Phoebe Maltz Bovy Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/standard-issue-podcast-628324/straight-talking-with-phoebe-maltz-bovy Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/standard-issue-podcast-628324/straight-talking-with-phoebe-maltz-bovy.md Podcast: [Standard Issue Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/standard-issue-podcast-628324) Published: 2026-06-02T03:07:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/AUDD7625251470.mp3 Audio file: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/AUDD7625251470.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/standard-issue-podcast-628324/episodes/straight-talking-with-phoebe-maltz-bovy Duration seconds: 1716 ## Resource Fewer and fewer woman now identify as straight. Why? Well that's what Phoebe Maltz Bovy's new book The Last Straight Woman sets out to discover. She chats to Hannah about how trends, empathy for LGBT people, a rejection of gender roles, bad PR for men and porn may all be playing their part. You can buy The Last Straight Woman here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-last-straight-woman/phoebe-maltz-bovy/9780771013027 You can join the Standard Issue members club here: Standard Issue Podcast | creating a magazine for ears, by women for women | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/standard-issue-podcast-628324/episodes/straight-talking-with-phoebe-maltz-bovy/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/standard-issue-podcast-628324/straight-talking-with-phoebe-maltz-bovy.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.