{"podcast":{"title":"Intimate Judaism","slug":"intimate-judaism-637036","podcast_index_feed_id":637036,"rss_url":"https://intimatejudaism.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://intimatejudaism.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/c/7/2/ac72251f5c2fc3ae/Intimate-Judaism_3k-x-3k.jpg","author":"Scott Kahn","episode_count":80,"summary":"Our monthly podcast, INTIMATE JUDAISM, addresses intimacy and healthy sexuality in the context of Jewish family life. We raise conflicts and challenges and candidly offer solutions while remaining firmly within the bounds of Torah and Halacha.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-08T06:20:21.972022+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/intimate-judaism-637036"},"episode":{"title":"Tzniut: Modesty, Female Masturbation, and the Media (CLASSIC EPISODE)","slug":"tzniut-modesty-female-masturbation-and-the-media-classic-episode","published_at":"2025-04-27T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/intimate-judaism-637036/tzniut-modesty-female-masturbation-and-the-media-classic-episode","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/intimate-judaism-637036","url":"https://intimatejudaism.libsyn.com/tzniut-modesty-female-masturbation-and-the-media-classic-episode","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/intimatejudaism/IJ.28.rerun_with_intro.mp3?dest-id=758152","summary":"Orthodox girls and women are traditionally taught to dress modestly in order to avoid attracting the male gaze and to keep men from sinful thoughts or behaviors. These messages, according to Rabbanit Oriya Mevorach, an educator and doctoral student of Gender and Philosophy, objectify and sexualize women and girls, and are actually influenced by Western society's sexuality discourse. Moreover, the effect of these messages present men as sexual beings while female sexuality is ignored. Rabbanit Mevorach, who studies sexuality and culture, presents an alternate approach to teaching modesty to young women in their teenage and young adult years. She also discusses what Jewish law has to say about female masturbation.","meta_description":"Orthodox girls and women are traditionally taught to dress modestly in order to avoid attracting the male gaze and to keep men from sinful thoughts or beh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2748,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/intimate-judaism-637036/episodes/tzniut-modesty-female-masturbation-and-the-media-classic-episode/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/intimate-judaism-637036/tzniut-modesty-female-masturbation-and-the-media-classic-episode.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}