A History of Sex for Sale

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes referred to as the world's oldest profession sex workers have been part of human society for as long as recorded history, but how have societies viewed them through the ages? In the episode, Dan is joined by Dr Kate Lister to find out how the treatment of sex workers has changed, whether the Victorians were really prudes, what you might find in a Roman brothel, fleshy thighs and how conditions for sex workers could be improved today.

Dr Kate Lister is a lecturer in the School of Arts and Communication at Leeds Trinity University. Kate primarily researches the literary history of sex work and curates the online research project, Whores of Yore, an interdisciplinary digital archive for the study of historical sexuality. Her new book Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale is published in October.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's history. It's very, very happy to have Dr. Kate
0:04.9	Lister back on the podcast. She's a lecturer at Leeds Trinity University. She
0:09.0	researchers the literary history of sex work. She also curates pause of your
0:15.2	a digital archive of the study of historical sexuality and massive online
0:22.5	social media presence. She's an absolutely fantastic historian and communicator.
0:26.5	Her history of sex was brilliant as a podcast on that last year. And she's
0:32.9	back this year. She's got a new book out in the history of sex work even more
0:35.6	brilliant. And it's been great getting her back on and talking. There are lots of
0:39.4	adult themes in this podcast. You may not want to listen to it if you are
0:42.8	listening with young children, but if you're not, then fill your boots. And when
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1:03.4	here is Dr. Kate Lister. Enjoy.
1:11.0	Kate, thank you very much. Come on the podcast. It's my pleasure. Thank you so
1:14.2	much for asking me on. It's always said to be the, what's that cliche? It's the
1:18.5	second-dollar professional. Some of that. What? Selling sex. Is it as old as
1:23.4	humanity itself? It comes from Rudyard Kipling. He was the first one that
1:27.3	coined the phrase, the world's oldest profession in his little novellet on the
1:32.0	wall. I think it was. But it's not the world's oldest profession because
1:36.0	there's many cultures around the world throughout history that haven't had
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