Drunk History (2013) s05e04 Episode Script
Sex
1 So, Margaret Sanger's like, there must be something, like, a pill that you can take that could control birth.
Oh, I feel like I'm so useless.
Mr.
and Mrs.
Kinsey were experimenting, and they were like, we're gonna teach everyone else about it.
F-U-C-K-I-N-G (Laughs) We want you to go undercover at one of Hugh Hefner's Playboy clubs.
And Gloria Steinem says, let's fucking do it.
(Laughs) (Patriotic music) Never have I ever brought food into sexy time.
Is whip cream food? Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Never have I ever called someone the wrong name during sex.
Me either.
Cool.
Jinx.
(Chuckles) Never have I ever been involved with more than one person in a sexual situation.
I wish I could drink right now but no.
We're normal, short people.
(Both laugh) Hello.
I'm Alison Rich, and today we'll be talking about the birth of birth control.
Cheers! So, Margaret Sanger was a woman, who at 19, her mother died from complications from pregnancies.
She'd been pregnant eight teen times.
No.
Yes.
I've been pregnant zero times, and I'm stressed out just thinking about her.
So, Margaret moved to New York, and was like I'm gonna be a nurse for low-income women in New York City And one of the patients she observed was this woman Sadie Sachs.
Sadie Sachs was a woman who had had three children, and her doctor was like, if you have another kid, you're gonna you know die.
And, like, your husband should sleep on the roof.
And she's like, okay, cool.
So (Giggles) What's so funny? It's really hard but I'm committed.
So, a couple of months later someone comes up to Margaret, and they're like, hey, here's the update, she died from a self-induced abortion.
And Margaret's like, what the fuck? This is horrible.
There has to be a better way.
There must be something like a pill that you can take that's as easy as an Aspirin, you know, that your doctor can prescribe to you that could control birth.
So, Margaret was like, you know what.
It's helpful to be a nurse, but it's not helpful enough.
So, in 1916, Margaret Sanger and her sister, Ethel Byrne, founded the Brownsville clinic in Brooklyn, New York! And, um in the first ten days, 450 ladies showed up.
Margaret's like, hey, here's pamphlets on what every woman should know (Burps) God, I love to burp.
(Laughs) I've been drinking vodka and cranberry juice like a real college freshman.
(Groans) So, it's only a matter of time before the New York Police Department's vice squad shows up and goes, dun-dun-dunn.
We're shutting this down! Ladies are getting information about their how their own bodies work.
We don't like it.
And Margaret's like, it doesn't even matter.
My message of birth control is already out there.
She wasn't going to get stopped.
So, they end up getting arrested.
(Laughs) Oh, I feel like I'm so useless.
You're not.
Okay.
So she's giving a speech at this women's suffrage event, and she's like, if we do not have control over our bodies, then we have nothing.
People think of sex as this, like, weird thing that we're not supposed to talk about, but sex is as basic to the human experience as eating and pooping, and those are two things that I love so much.
If I get an email from you, half the time I am on my toilet.
I love to take my laptop into the bathroom.
(Chuckles) So this rich lady, Katherine McCormick was like Hey, Margaret Sanger.
What's up? I would like to give you, not only my time, but my dollar bills.
So, she was like, I'm gonna drop the accent for a second, you know, 'cause it's exhausting.
(Laughs) So, she's like, I want to help you open up a new clinic.
I'm gonna tell people I'm going to Europe for fashion reasons, but, really, it's for (whispers) birth control.
(Gasps) So, she goes to Europe, and orchestrated this insane fashion spy mission.
So all of these diaphragms get sewn into dresses.
She comes back to the U.
S.
with a year's supply worth of diaphragms.
And they're like, whoo.
We're reopening our birth control clinic.
We're calling it the "American Birth Control League.
" Which, by 1942, was called Planned Parenthood.
That's huge.
It's huge! And Margaret's like, what a victory! But at the same time, this isn't good enough.
So, for decades, Margaret had this vision of some kind of pill And finally, she seeks out Gregory Pincus, who was kicked out of Harvard for doing in vitro fertilization on rabbits, and he's like, bloop, bloop, bloop, I'm in my basement.
And Margaret's like, I need to help you.
(Chuckles) No.
You need to help me.
Do the opposite of what you're doing but for human women and not animal rabbits.
(Giggles) And she's like, she's going to give us 40 grand for you to figure this out.
And Greg Pincus is like, you had me at $40,000.
(Both laugh) It's a "Sound of Music" reference.
"Baby you had me at" I don't know that.
"Hello.
" That's a classic line from "Sound of Music" where Maria goes, "You had me at hello," as in No.
That's "Jerry Maguire.
" (Sings) "Hello Ada-adear-adama-Jerry Maguire.
" No.
Jerry Maguire (Laughs) is "You complete me.
" (Squeals) And, "You had me at hello.
" She says both? Yeah.
Cool.
Then, in 1952, Greg Pincus is like, doo-doo-doo, trying to invent this pill, when he comes across his old Harvard colleague, John Rock.
Greg Pincus is like, I'm trying to make this pill happen.
And John Rock was like, here's a hot tip, use this little hormone called "progesterone.
" It shuts down their ovulation meaning eggs aren't coming out.
Greg Pincus is like, that's what I'm talking about.
- Um.
- (Both laughing) And in 1957, boom! They create the pill.
So, in the first year, 500,000 women get the pill.
It was hugely successful.
Then by 1960, it was officially on the market as a form of contraception.
The development of the birth control pill is the single most important development in women's liberation.
- Wow.
- Women were like, we can go to college.
We can join the work force.
We can experience the sexual revolution.
It's really important! I don't know.
Women just You kind of have to think that you're going to be some superhero who (sighs) accomplishes your career aspirations without any bumps along the way and also pops out a couple of kids on the way.
Whereas, men can you know, sort of They have more time, and it feels unfair.
(Sniffles) It's true.
P.
S.
Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist, but not everybody is perfect.
Martin Luther King Jr had affairs.
(Both laugh) So impressed you're doing straight vod.
Straight vod! Do you remember your first memory of when you learned about sex, like It was a movie on TV, and all the guys got in the pool.
They were skinny dipping, and then all the girls, like as a prank, stole their bathing suits and ran away.
And it was, like, all the guys were like, "Oh, no.
" That gave me, like, a four year boner.
(Chuckles) Did you ever get to fulfill that fantasy? No, but, you know, now that I live in LA, there's more pools than ever.
It's going to happen.
Hi, I'm Gabe Liedman, and today we're going to be discussing Mr.
and Mrs.
Kinsey.
The Kinseys! The Kinseys! Yes! This is sex! Yes! So, Alfred Kinsey was a professor at the University of Indiana.
He's really antisocial.
He's really hard to chill with.
Until one day at a zoology department picnic, he was looking for someone to chat with, and he met Clara, who was a chemistry student.
And they really hit it off.
He's like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and they're like, we should be partners.
So they fell in love.
They got married a year later.
It's the wedding night.
They're trying to fuck.
She was like, this feels like nothing.
Could you stop? Right now? And I'm kind of wasted.
(Both laugh) So finally they went to a doctor.
He was like, there's a problem with Clara's puss, which is an area of the body that I find very confusing.
- (Both laugh) - I love you.
I'm an expert.
(Laughs) She has something called an adherent clitoris, which is something that if you Google it no big deal, this is something that happens to a lot of women.
So, Clara had an operation, and it made her able to enjoy intercourse.
And they were experimenting, and they were doing all sorts of different stuff.
Just bouncing on dicks, and enjoying it the entire time.
And they were, like, making babies is one thing, God is another thing, our genitals are these fucking question marks dingly dangling off the front of our fucking mashed potato weirdo bodies, and we're going to figure it out.
We're going to teach everyone else about it.
So Kinsey starts teaching people about sex, and it was a huge success.
Everyone wanted this information, and Kinsey's like, I'm on to something here.
We need to dive deep on this subject of sex.
Kinsey and his wife would have these dinner parties that were kind of like field studies in biology but for sex.
"Eyes Wide Shut" meets "Dead Poets Society" basically.
Like, okay, I think we've all had our fill of meatloaf and ice cream.
Now you.
Why don't you pull your pants down, and let her start kissing your buns.
And then, maybe it would be great for science if you came over there and started eating her butt while she was sucking his dick.
And then they would, like, take notes, and they were getting all sorts of data that was all about F-U-C-K-I-N-G.
Fucking? Yeah! (Chuckles) So Mr.
and Mrs.
Kinsey have entered a new phase in their marriage.
They're having sex with other dudes.
This is just sexy science.
She's fucking dudes.
He's fucking dudes.
And Kinsey's like, oh, my God.
I just had sex with a guy.
I am so sorry.
And she's like, dude that is totally fine with me.
I want to fuck dudes, and you want to fuck dudes, and we love each other.
So let's just have, like, a dude fucking household.
So, they're, like, horny lovebirds, but they're also scientists.
Kinsey starts conducting surveys with the students at the university like, what are you turned on by? What have you done before, sexually? What do you want to do, sexually? And Kinsey would listen to all of these experiences and fantasies.
And Kinsey was like, oh, my God, everyone is a fucking pervert like I am.
This is the largest survey of sex ever done.
And it suddenly occurred to him Oh, my God sexuality is not that simple.
There's a whole scale.
There's the Kinsey scale.
He comes up with this idea that everyone has all of these grey areas that they're into from zero, straight boring, all the way up to six meaning, like, extremely homosexual.
Kinsey, people think, fell somewhere around three or four himself on that scale, meaning he's, like, original bisexual, if you can imagine such a thing.
I can.
I'm imagining it right now.
(Laughs) (Sighs) Kinsey's books and research were super important to the sexual revolution of the '60s.
It really just opened the door to a lot of the modern ideers.
"Iderrs" about sex.
Have you ever tested yourself on the scale? No, I've never taken the test.
Wouldn't that be amazing if I turned out to be straight? I got strictly homosexual.
I think I'm finally ready to have my first sexual experience.
Are you serious? Yeah! - Cheers.
- (Laughs) We're gonna make, like, a not official old fashioned.
Just a little bit.
Just a little bit for you.
Oh, yes.
That's what it's for.
This really has multiple uses, this tool.
(Laughs) It's a good ice breaker, stupid.
(Laughs) Fuck you.
Hello.
I'm Katie Nolan, and today we're gonna talk about Gloria Steinem.
Our story begins in the year 1963.
Gloria Steinem was a graduate of Smith College, very smart, she's 28 years old, and she's a journalist.
And "Show Magazine" was like, hey, Gloria, we have a story for you.
We want you to go undercover at one of Hugh Hefner's Playboy clubs.
And Playboy clubs were advertising themselves at the time as, like, being in a real live version of "Playboy.
" So, you would have, like, beautiful women everywhere, and drinks and food and "dude stuff.
" - Yeah! - Boobies and vaginas! (Laughs) And Gloria was like, I don't think this is what I want.
I want people to take me seriously.
And her editor was like, I think this could be your chance to call Hugh Hefner out on his Goddamn bullshit.
And she was like, you're right.
I'm in.
Let's fucking do it.
Um.
Uh, what was I talking about? - Uh.
- So she says yes to the thing to the assignment.
And so she goes to the audition which is at a Playboy club.
So she's this alias she's created for herself which is Marie Catherine Ochs.
And the woman that she goes up to says, take off your coat.
Let me see your body.
Gloria was like, um, okay and, like, took her coat off.
And the woman was like you look a little old for 24, but your body's great.
Come back on Saturday for a fitting.
And so Gloria comes back a couple of days later, and she sees this woman named Sheralee.
And she's like, I'm the bunny mother.
So she goes, and she gets sized.
She puts on this leotard, and she's like, this fits.
And they're like, no it doesn't.
And they keep going in and in.
And Gloria's like, I think that's tight enough.
I can hardly breathe.
(Laughs) - I just had an ice - Are you good? An ice cube just assaulted me.
You got ISIS-ed.
- (Laughs) - Sorry.
So the bunny mother, Sheralee, is explaining to the bunnies there's all these things that they can take your money away for; like, if your ears are crooked, that's a demerit.
If your bunny tail's dirty, that's demerits.
If you're not smiling enough, that's a bunch of demerits.
They also give her this "Bunny Manual" which is a list of all the rules that you have to follow.
And in the Bunny Manual, it says you're not allowed to date any customers.
But then they were told unless they hold the special key.
These special key members were allowed to do whatever they want.
Ew.
That's fucked up.
Anyway.
So, they're like, great, you're all set.
You're going to start work soon.
We just need you to complete your physical.
And Gloria's like, what do you mean? I'm going to be a waitress.
And, like, oh, we just need you to complete a physical with this doctor, and then you'll be fine to start.
That's gross.
Yeah.
That's just gross.
So, she goes to the doctor.
She sits on the table, and she sees there's stirrups.
And the doctor walks in, and the first thing he says to her is so you want to be a bunny.
Which is alarming, as a doctor.
He exams her, which to a woman means you know.
Pap smear? Did you say "patch" smear? I've never had one.
It's not a bagel, Derek.
It's a It's a I'm from New York, eh.
TOGETHER: I'ma gettin' a pap "schmear.
" (Both laugh) So, she finishes the exam.
And she goes the next day to train for this job.
That's a fancy word for you're going to work and not get paid any money.
She's training as a table bunny.
And they teach her that she has to follow the other bunny servers around, and so she's going around, asking these people, like, hello, I'm bunny Marie.
What can I get for you? And they would say things like, yeah, girl, let me see your titties.
Open it up.
Which is bullshit.
How many times are you allowed to say bullshit on Comedy Central? I've said it a whole bunch.
Whenever you want.
Okay.
It's some bullshit.
(Laughs) Do you want me to teach you how to bunny? Yes, all right.
So, when I walk How do I walk? Well, so, it will be on a tray, and I need you to be on your tippy toes all the way up.
- Higher than that.
- This is all I can go.
And then cross your legs when you walk.
Bend over the table to serve the drink.
- Butt out.
- Mm-hmm.
Titties out.
Go away, you slut.
Anyway.
She's working all of these shifts, and she's like, in her journal, she's writing all these injustices.
They're, like, working these long hours.
They're not making any money.
On top of that, it's basically a prostitution ring.
And finally, after working in the Playboy clubs for four weeks, Gloria was like, fuck this shit.
I have enough in my journal.
I'm gonna publish this shit.
I'm out.
It's just all the stupid sexist dumbass bullshit.
She just wanted to get the fuck out.
And so she quit.
And so Gloria writes an expose on these Playboy clubs.
She's like these women were like not making as much money as they were told they were going to make.
It's insane hours.
They're being grabbed all the time.
They're treated like prostitutes.
They're basically being used as a tool for the male sexual revolution.
But the women themselves don't get to own their sexuality, and that's shitty.
So they publishes they publishes They publ - They publish - Mm-mm.
They publish the story in the magazine.
So, the world reads this article, and to his very tiny credit, Hugh Hefner says wow Yeah, maybe they won't have to go to these physical exams anymore.
And you know what, I'm going to stop making them have to give so much of their money to us if they make a mistake.
Which is, like, a really cool thing that Hugh Hefner did.
But also, not as cool as just, like, always treating them that way.
This article made Gloria Steinem a household name, and she went on to be this huge feminist icon.
It's tough, but I swear to God, if it weren't for Gloria Steinem I wouldn't be able to be on TV.
It's very hard to be a woman that's like, I love sports.
And you have stuck to your guns ever since you've started.
And that is what You cried.
I'm sorry.
Can I get somebody else to do to do this? (Laughs) (Patriotic music)
Oh, I feel like I'm so useless.
Mr.
and Mrs.
Kinsey were experimenting, and they were like, we're gonna teach everyone else about it.
F-U-C-K-I-N-G (Laughs) We want you to go undercover at one of Hugh Hefner's Playboy clubs.
And Gloria Steinem says, let's fucking do it.
(Laughs) (Patriotic music) Never have I ever brought food into sexy time.
Is whip cream food? Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Never have I ever called someone the wrong name during sex.
Me either.
Cool.
Jinx.
(Chuckles) Never have I ever been involved with more than one person in a sexual situation.
I wish I could drink right now but no.
We're normal, short people.
(Both laugh) Hello.
I'm Alison Rich, and today we'll be talking about the birth of birth control.
Cheers! So, Margaret Sanger was a woman, who at 19, her mother died from complications from pregnancies.
She'd been pregnant eight teen times.
No.
Yes.
I've been pregnant zero times, and I'm stressed out just thinking about her.
So, Margaret moved to New York, and was like I'm gonna be a nurse for low-income women in New York City And one of the patients she observed was this woman Sadie Sachs.
Sadie Sachs was a woman who had had three children, and her doctor was like, if you have another kid, you're gonna you know die.
And, like, your husband should sleep on the roof.
And she's like, okay, cool.
So (Giggles) What's so funny? It's really hard but I'm committed.
So, a couple of months later someone comes up to Margaret, and they're like, hey, here's the update, she died from a self-induced abortion.
And Margaret's like, what the fuck? This is horrible.
There has to be a better way.
There must be something like a pill that you can take that's as easy as an Aspirin, you know, that your doctor can prescribe to you that could control birth.
So, Margaret was like, you know what.
It's helpful to be a nurse, but it's not helpful enough.
So, in 1916, Margaret Sanger and her sister, Ethel Byrne, founded the Brownsville clinic in Brooklyn, New York! And, um in the first ten days, 450 ladies showed up.
Margaret's like, hey, here's pamphlets on what every woman should know (Burps) God, I love to burp.
(Laughs) I've been drinking vodka and cranberry juice like a real college freshman.
(Groans) So, it's only a matter of time before the New York Police Department's vice squad shows up and goes, dun-dun-dunn.
We're shutting this down! Ladies are getting information about their how their own bodies work.
We don't like it.
And Margaret's like, it doesn't even matter.
My message of birth control is already out there.
She wasn't going to get stopped.
So, they end up getting arrested.
(Laughs) Oh, I feel like I'm so useless.
You're not.
Okay.
So she's giving a speech at this women's suffrage event, and she's like, if we do not have control over our bodies, then we have nothing.
People think of sex as this, like, weird thing that we're not supposed to talk about, but sex is as basic to the human experience as eating and pooping, and those are two things that I love so much.
If I get an email from you, half the time I am on my toilet.
I love to take my laptop into the bathroom.
(Chuckles) So this rich lady, Katherine McCormick was like Hey, Margaret Sanger.
What's up? I would like to give you, not only my time, but my dollar bills.
So, she was like, I'm gonna drop the accent for a second, you know, 'cause it's exhausting.
(Laughs) So, she's like, I want to help you open up a new clinic.
I'm gonna tell people I'm going to Europe for fashion reasons, but, really, it's for (whispers) birth control.
(Gasps) So, she goes to Europe, and orchestrated this insane fashion spy mission.
So all of these diaphragms get sewn into dresses.
She comes back to the U.
S.
with a year's supply worth of diaphragms.
And they're like, whoo.
We're reopening our birth control clinic.
We're calling it the "American Birth Control League.
" Which, by 1942, was called Planned Parenthood.
That's huge.
It's huge! And Margaret's like, what a victory! But at the same time, this isn't good enough.
So, for decades, Margaret had this vision of some kind of pill And finally, she seeks out Gregory Pincus, who was kicked out of Harvard for doing in vitro fertilization on rabbits, and he's like, bloop, bloop, bloop, I'm in my basement.
And Margaret's like, I need to help you.
(Chuckles) No.
You need to help me.
Do the opposite of what you're doing but for human women and not animal rabbits.
(Giggles) And she's like, she's going to give us 40 grand for you to figure this out.
And Greg Pincus is like, you had me at $40,000.
(Both laugh) It's a "Sound of Music" reference.
"Baby you had me at" I don't know that.
"Hello.
" That's a classic line from "Sound of Music" where Maria goes, "You had me at hello," as in No.
That's "Jerry Maguire.
" (Sings) "Hello Ada-adear-adama-Jerry Maguire.
" No.
Jerry Maguire (Laughs) is "You complete me.
" (Squeals) And, "You had me at hello.
" She says both? Yeah.
Cool.
Then, in 1952, Greg Pincus is like, doo-doo-doo, trying to invent this pill, when he comes across his old Harvard colleague, John Rock.
Greg Pincus is like, I'm trying to make this pill happen.
And John Rock was like, here's a hot tip, use this little hormone called "progesterone.
" It shuts down their ovulation meaning eggs aren't coming out.
Greg Pincus is like, that's what I'm talking about.
- Um.
- (Both laughing) And in 1957, boom! They create the pill.
So, in the first year, 500,000 women get the pill.
It was hugely successful.
Then by 1960, it was officially on the market as a form of contraception.
The development of the birth control pill is the single most important development in women's liberation.
- Wow.
- Women were like, we can go to college.
We can join the work force.
We can experience the sexual revolution.
It's really important! I don't know.
Women just You kind of have to think that you're going to be some superhero who (sighs) accomplishes your career aspirations without any bumps along the way and also pops out a couple of kids on the way.
Whereas, men can you know, sort of They have more time, and it feels unfair.
(Sniffles) It's true.
P.
S.
Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist, but not everybody is perfect.
Martin Luther King Jr had affairs.
(Both laugh) So impressed you're doing straight vod.
Straight vod! Do you remember your first memory of when you learned about sex, like It was a movie on TV, and all the guys got in the pool.
They were skinny dipping, and then all the girls, like as a prank, stole their bathing suits and ran away.
And it was, like, all the guys were like, "Oh, no.
" That gave me, like, a four year boner.
(Chuckles) Did you ever get to fulfill that fantasy? No, but, you know, now that I live in LA, there's more pools than ever.
It's going to happen.
Hi, I'm Gabe Liedman, and today we're going to be discussing Mr.
and Mrs.
Kinsey.
The Kinseys! The Kinseys! Yes! This is sex! Yes! So, Alfred Kinsey was a professor at the University of Indiana.
He's really antisocial.
He's really hard to chill with.
Until one day at a zoology department picnic, he was looking for someone to chat with, and he met Clara, who was a chemistry student.
And they really hit it off.
He's like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and they're like, we should be partners.
So they fell in love.
They got married a year later.
It's the wedding night.
They're trying to fuck.
She was like, this feels like nothing.
Could you stop? Right now? And I'm kind of wasted.
(Both laugh) So finally they went to a doctor.
He was like, there's a problem with Clara's puss, which is an area of the body that I find very confusing.
- (Both laugh) - I love you.
I'm an expert.
(Laughs) She has something called an adherent clitoris, which is something that if you Google it no big deal, this is something that happens to a lot of women.
So, Clara had an operation, and it made her able to enjoy intercourse.
And they were experimenting, and they were doing all sorts of different stuff.
Just bouncing on dicks, and enjoying it the entire time.
And they were, like, making babies is one thing, God is another thing, our genitals are these fucking question marks dingly dangling off the front of our fucking mashed potato weirdo bodies, and we're going to figure it out.
We're going to teach everyone else about it.
So Kinsey starts teaching people about sex, and it was a huge success.
Everyone wanted this information, and Kinsey's like, I'm on to something here.
We need to dive deep on this subject of sex.
Kinsey and his wife would have these dinner parties that were kind of like field studies in biology but for sex.
"Eyes Wide Shut" meets "Dead Poets Society" basically.
Like, okay, I think we've all had our fill of meatloaf and ice cream.
Now you.
Why don't you pull your pants down, and let her start kissing your buns.
And then, maybe it would be great for science if you came over there and started eating her butt while she was sucking his dick.
And then they would, like, take notes, and they were getting all sorts of data that was all about F-U-C-K-I-N-G.
Fucking? Yeah! (Chuckles) So Mr.
and Mrs.
Kinsey have entered a new phase in their marriage.
They're having sex with other dudes.
This is just sexy science.
She's fucking dudes.
He's fucking dudes.
And Kinsey's like, oh, my God.
I just had sex with a guy.
I am so sorry.
And she's like, dude that is totally fine with me.
I want to fuck dudes, and you want to fuck dudes, and we love each other.
So let's just have, like, a dude fucking household.
So, they're, like, horny lovebirds, but they're also scientists.
Kinsey starts conducting surveys with the students at the university like, what are you turned on by? What have you done before, sexually? What do you want to do, sexually? And Kinsey would listen to all of these experiences and fantasies.
And Kinsey was like, oh, my God, everyone is a fucking pervert like I am.
This is the largest survey of sex ever done.
And it suddenly occurred to him Oh, my God sexuality is not that simple.
There's a whole scale.
There's the Kinsey scale.
He comes up with this idea that everyone has all of these grey areas that they're into from zero, straight boring, all the way up to six meaning, like, extremely homosexual.
Kinsey, people think, fell somewhere around three or four himself on that scale, meaning he's, like, original bisexual, if you can imagine such a thing.
I can.
I'm imagining it right now.
(Laughs) (Sighs) Kinsey's books and research were super important to the sexual revolution of the '60s.
It really just opened the door to a lot of the modern ideers.
"Iderrs" about sex.
Have you ever tested yourself on the scale? No, I've never taken the test.
Wouldn't that be amazing if I turned out to be straight? I got strictly homosexual.
I think I'm finally ready to have my first sexual experience.
Are you serious? Yeah! - Cheers.
- (Laughs) We're gonna make, like, a not official old fashioned.
Just a little bit.
Just a little bit for you.
Oh, yes.
That's what it's for.
This really has multiple uses, this tool.
(Laughs) It's a good ice breaker, stupid.
(Laughs) Fuck you.
Hello.
I'm Katie Nolan, and today we're gonna talk about Gloria Steinem.
Our story begins in the year 1963.
Gloria Steinem was a graduate of Smith College, very smart, she's 28 years old, and she's a journalist.
And "Show Magazine" was like, hey, Gloria, we have a story for you.
We want you to go undercover at one of Hugh Hefner's Playboy clubs.
And Playboy clubs were advertising themselves at the time as, like, being in a real live version of "Playboy.
" So, you would have, like, beautiful women everywhere, and drinks and food and "dude stuff.
" - Yeah! - Boobies and vaginas! (Laughs) And Gloria was like, I don't think this is what I want.
I want people to take me seriously.
And her editor was like, I think this could be your chance to call Hugh Hefner out on his Goddamn bullshit.
And she was like, you're right.
I'm in.
Let's fucking do it.
Um.
Uh, what was I talking about? - Uh.
- So she says yes to the thing to the assignment.
And so she goes to the audition which is at a Playboy club.
So she's this alias she's created for herself which is Marie Catherine Ochs.
And the woman that she goes up to says, take off your coat.
Let me see your body.
Gloria was like, um, okay and, like, took her coat off.
And the woman was like you look a little old for 24, but your body's great.
Come back on Saturday for a fitting.
And so Gloria comes back a couple of days later, and she sees this woman named Sheralee.
And she's like, I'm the bunny mother.
So she goes, and she gets sized.
She puts on this leotard, and she's like, this fits.
And they're like, no it doesn't.
And they keep going in and in.
And Gloria's like, I think that's tight enough.
I can hardly breathe.
(Laughs) - I just had an ice - Are you good? An ice cube just assaulted me.
You got ISIS-ed.
- (Laughs) - Sorry.
So the bunny mother, Sheralee, is explaining to the bunnies there's all these things that they can take your money away for; like, if your ears are crooked, that's a demerit.
If your bunny tail's dirty, that's demerits.
If you're not smiling enough, that's a bunch of demerits.
They also give her this "Bunny Manual" which is a list of all the rules that you have to follow.
And in the Bunny Manual, it says you're not allowed to date any customers.
But then they were told unless they hold the special key.
These special key members were allowed to do whatever they want.
Ew.
That's fucked up.
Anyway.
So, they're like, great, you're all set.
You're going to start work soon.
We just need you to complete your physical.
And Gloria's like, what do you mean? I'm going to be a waitress.
And, like, oh, we just need you to complete a physical with this doctor, and then you'll be fine to start.
That's gross.
Yeah.
That's just gross.
So, she goes to the doctor.
She sits on the table, and she sees there's stirrups.
And the doctor walks in, and the first thing he says to her is so you want to be a bunny.
Which is alarming, as a doctor.
He exams her, which to a woman means you know.
Pap smear? Did you say "patch" smear? I've never had one.
It's not a bagel, Derek.
It's a It's a I'm from New York, eh.
TOGETHER: I'ma gettin' a pap "schmear.
" (Both laugh) So, she finishes the exam.
And she goes the next day to train for this job.
That's a fancy word for you're going to work and not get paid any money.
She's training as a table bunny.
And they teach her that she has to follow the other bunny servers around, and so she's going around, asking these people, like, hello, I'm bunny Marie.
What can I get for you? And they would say things like, yeah, girl, let me see your titties.
Open it up.
Which is bullshit.
How many times are you allowed to say bullshit on Comedy Central? I've said it a whole bunch.
Whenever you want.
Okay.
It's some bullshit.
(Laughs) Do you want me to teach you how to bunny? Yes, all right.
So, when I walk How do I walk? Well, so, it will be on a tray, and I need you to be on your tippy toes all the way up.
- Higher than that.
- This is all I can go.
And then cross your legs when you walk.
Bend over the table to serve the drink.
- Butt out.
- Mm-hmm.
Titties out.
Go away, you slut.
Anyway.
She's working all of these shifts, and she's like, in her journal, she's writing all these injustices.
They're, like, working these long hours.
They're not making any money.
On top of that, it's basically a prostitution ring.
And finally, after working in the Playboy clubs for four weeks, Gloria was like, fuck this shit.
I have enough in my journal.
I'm gonna publish this shit.
I'm out.
It's just all the stupid sexist dumbass bullshit.
She just wanted to get the fuck out.
And so she quit.
And so Gloria writes an expose on these Playboy clubs.
She's like these women were like not making as much money as they were told they were going to make.
It's insane hours.
They're being grabbed all the time.
They're treated like prostitutes.
They're basically being used as a tool for the male sexual revolution.
But the women themselves don't get to own their sexuality, and that's shitty.
So they publishes they publishes They publ - They publish - Mm-mm.
They publish the story in the magazine.
So, the world reads this article, and to his very tiny credit, Hugh Hefner says wow Yeah, maybe they won't have to go to these physical exams anymore.
And you know what, I'm going to stop making them have to give so much of their money to us if they make a mistake.
Which is, like, a really cool thing that Hugh Hefner did.
But also, not as cool as just, like, always treating them that way.
This article made Gloria Steinem a household name, and she went on to be this huge feminist icon.
It's tough, but I swear to God, if it weren't for Gloria Steinem I wouldn't be able to be on TV.
It's very hard to be a woman that's like, I love sports.
And you have stuck to your guns ever since you've started.
And that is what You cried.
I'm sorry.
Can I get somebody else to do to do this? (Laughs) (Patriotic music)