How To Fake Virginity
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
History Hit
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Why, just why, would one put a leech up their .. you know where? It's all in the name of virginity, or the faking of it.
Kate is joined by Dr Julia Martins to find out why virginity was so necessary to Early Modern people, and how they went about faking it.
Julia can be found at juliamartins.co.uk
This episode was edited by Tom Delargy and produced by Sophie Gee. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm your host, Kate Lister. |
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| 0:24.7 | Hello, my lovely betwixters. |
| 0:26.3 | It's me, Cade Lister. |
| 0:27.5 | You are you, I am me, and this is Betwix the Sheeds. |
| 0:29.9 | So I think, you know, what's coming your way? |
| 0:31.7 | That's right, it is the fair do's warning. |
| 0:34.4 | This is an adult podcast, Pokemon, |
| 0:35.8 | other adults about adulty things in an adult adulty way covering range of all subjects, and you should be an adult too. We do that |
| 0:40.5 | so everyone just feels a little bit safer, a little bit more prepared for what might be about |
| 0:45.5 | to go into their lug holes. Right, on with the show. |
| 0:59.8 | So you think you're thinking about getting married, are you? |
| 1:05.0 | And this woman that you have in mind, well, what are we to make of her? |
| 1:07.1 | Does she dress properly in public? |
| 1:09.1 | Is her dress not a little bit short? |
| 1:10.7 | Is her top not a little bit low? Is she a little bit too |
| 1:12.1 | friendly, a little bit too flirty? And are her nostrils not a little bit too big? I think they might be. |
| 1:18.1 | And you should be careful, because she might not be pure. Oh, if there's one thing, big nostrils |
| 1:24.3 | will signify is that a woman has loose morals, apparently. |
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