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.

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.

Conservative solutions to declining birth rates are almost always linked to an antiquated view of women’s roles.