#180 A History of Female Pleasure with Dr Kate Lister (Part 1)

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🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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**THIS EPISODE CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND THEMES OF AN ADULT NATURE**

Our guest this week is British historian and author Dr Kate Lister who is here to discuss her new book ‘Flick’ which explores female pleasure throughout history; from Ancient Mesopotamian sex goddesses to the contraceptive pill.

The book itself is fascinating and you can get it here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463104/flick-by-lister-dr-kate/9780857506436

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0:00.0	Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free,
0:06.4	plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access
0:11.9	to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water
0:16.9	Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else
0:21.5	in history you might have popped up. For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash
0:27.1	Oh What a Time. Hello and welcome to Oh What a Time. This episode in particular has themes of
0:34.1	asexual nature and also has the strongest language imaginable. If you listen with little kids, you might want to think again just for this week, I'm afraid. Yeah. By which we mean just don't listen to it with little kids. Yeah. Really do mean that. And there is bad language, but it's all in a historical setting. We're not just angry.
0:54.7	Oh, absolutely. Yeah, you're not going to get me on that. I'm not going to get expelled from school. No way, because I'm 45.
1:00.1	This is not for the faint of heart.
1:15.3	Hello and welcome to Oh, what a time.
1:16.9	Welcome to this history podcast.
1:20.0	And we have a special guest today, Dr. Kate Lister,
1:23.1	who has a new book, Flick, a history of female pleasure.
1:24.4	We'll be getting into that.
1:27.2	But I'm going to talk about my own pleasure just quickly.
1:28.2	Non-sexual.
1:29.2	I'll be the judge of that.
1:32.1	My coffee machine broke last week.
1:35.3	I was immediately taken back to essentially the Stone Age. Okay.
1:36.4	Losing the ability to make a coffee in their own home,
1:39.0	having to walk up to Greg's, get a coffee from their machine instead of my own house. Having gone from not liking coffee a year ago, a year into my coffee addiction. Chris, I love this. I can't imagine life without. I'm not sure this is the tear-jurking story you think listeners. You've been on such a journey and I love it. I love it. Are you into posh mugs yet? No, not posh mug. I haven't even, no, just regular old
2:03.4	mugs. Do I need a posh mug? Oh, you need to get into posh mugs. And then it just completes the,
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