Did Ancient People Have Sex Toys?

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dating back some 30,000 years, sex toys have a long (no pun intended) and fascinating history.

What were the earliest sex toys like? How did technology change them? And did Victorian doctors really prescribing them for back pain?

In today's episode, we're revisiting an episode where Kate was joined by writer, sex and gender historian Hallie Lieberman to discuss the first dildo, the myth of the vibrator, and more.

Find out more about Hallie's book, Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy, here.

This episode was produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Seyi Adaobi.

All music from Epidemic Sounds/All3 Media.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm your host, Kate Lister.
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0:24.6	Hello, my lovely betwixters.
0:26.3	How the hell are you doing?
0:27.5	It's me, Kate Lister.
0:28.9	I am me, you are you, and this is Betwix the Sheets.
0:32.0	And I have to tell you, this is an adult podcast book by adults to other adults about
0:35.3	adulty things in an adulty way covering a range of adult subjects, and you should be an adult podcast spoken by adults to other adults about adulty things in an adulty way covering a range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too and if you can't
0:39.5	tick every single one of those off your list then you have no
0:41.7	business being here at all and for the rest of you on with the show
0:45.2	what do you look for a man
0:49.9	oh money of course you're supposed to rise when an adult
0:53.4	speaks to you I make perfect copies of whatever my boss needs by just turning it up and putting the money.
1:02.4	No!
1:03.2	No!
1:03.5	No!
1:03.6	No!
1:03.7	No!
1:04.5	No!
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