Contraception, consent & erotic connection: sex through history

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🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Fern Riddell, author of Sex: Lessons from History, discusses what we can learn from looking at sexual culture in the past, and gives her thoughts on what we get wrong about the sex lives of our forebears, from contraception and sex work to the joy of sexual connection. (Ad) Fern Riddell is the author of Sex: Lessons from History (Hodder & Stoughton, 2021) Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Lessons-History-Fern-Riddell/dp/1473666252/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hexpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
0:05.0	A bit of a different thing going on this week.
0:07.3	You've been immature and you've lied.
0:10.3	And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.
0:13.9	I was trying to manipulate you.
0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
0:18.1	I know, I'd be like, are you joking?
0:20.6	I don't know.
0:21.7	I guess you'd have to ask.
0:23.5	Someone that has sex.
0:24.3	Someone that has sex.
0:25.2	Right.
0:26.4	And remember, it's just between us.
0:30.3	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.
0:50.7	I'm Ellie Cawthorne. From contraception and consent to sexual identities, what do we get wrong
1:02.9	about the sex lives of people in the past? Well, in her new book, Sex Lessons from History,
1:09.1	the historian and broadcaster Fern Riddell addresses some of these
1:12.7	misconceptions and offers her opinions on what we can learn from looking at sexual culture through
1:18.6	history. I spoke to Fern to find out more. So in the book, Sex, Lessons from History, you take a pretty
1:26.5	wide-ranging look really at sexual
1:28.1	culture over time. So what do you think are the main things that we've got wrong about
1:33.1	the history of sex? Everything. It really is one of those things where if you look back at
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