From period tracking apps to male fertility myths, scientist and Uteropedia founder Zoya Ali joins Eleonora Voltolina to break down the taboos we still carry about our bodies.

One in six people of reproductive age will experience infertility. Yet the public conversation remains almost entirely focused on women. Ian Stones, co-creator of Test Him, won the Fertility Care Award with a podcast that wants to change that: talking about male infertility, breaking the stigma, and putting men back into the conversation. Eleonora Voltolina interviewed him for The Why Wait Agenda. Listen to the episode.

What if we stopped talking about falling birth rates, and started talking about the fertility gap instead? Fertility rates are not always the result of free choice. Even in the most advanced, liberal countries, we're still far from a full reproductive agency. And demographic anxiety blurs our focus from the true crisis – meeting people’s family aspirations. We should, instead, start taking into account the many barriers that prevent people from starting a family.

The fertility gap it’s the difference between the amount children we would like to have and the children we actually have.