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Hello my lovely betwixters. It's me, Kate Lister, you are you, I am me, and this is Betwicks, the Sheeds, the podcast where we have a good old route around in the unmentionables of history for our own entertainment, and because we do that, I do have to tell you, this is an adult podcast spoken by adults to other adults about adulty things, an adulty way, or age adult subjects, and used to be an adult too. And we do that because, well, just because we care about your feelings and because

lawyers told us to write on with the show. Throughout the ages, human societies have had

plenty to worry about. Sometimes we're worrying about war, sometimes we're worrying about money,

sometimes we're worrying about real issues like illness and climate change. But we have also spent

a lot of time worrying about complete and utter bollocks, such as were the Beatles really making

everyone horny, or if riding a bicycle might permanently ruin a woman's face.

All genuine historical concerns.

But as if that isn't enough, people throughout history have also found a lot of time to worry about other people's personal lives, specifically who they fancy.

And this went way beyond worry and still does to all out hatred and discrimination.

I am talking about homophobia.

But when did homophobia begin? Have we always done it?

Has it always been something we're worrying about?

Does it get worse under certain conditions?

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