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

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

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

History Hit

Society, History, Education, Sex, Scandal

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Why did kings and queens have spectators on their wedding night? Who had the very first boob job? And did our ancestors have their unmentionables pierced?


Join historian, Kate Lister, Betwixt the Sheets as she unashamedly roots around the topics which seem to have been skipped in history class.


Everything from landmark LGBTQ+ court cases, to political scandal, to downright bizarre medieval cures for impotence. The etymology of swear words, gender bias in medicine, and satanic panic and cults - there’s nothing off limits.


She'll be bed-hopping around different time periods; from ancient civilisations, to the middle ages, to renaissance and early modern...right up to now.


You’ll laugh, you’ll wince, and you’ll ask yourself how much has actually changed.


So join Kate Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society - a podcast from History Hit.


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0:00.0

Why did kings and queens have people cheering them on on their wedding nights?

0:06.5

Who had the very first boob job, and how many of your ancestors had their unmentionables

0:11.6

pierced?

0:12.6

I'm Kate Lister, sex historian, author and the creator of Hors of Yor, and on my new

0:18.7

podcast, The Twix the Sheets, the history of sex, scandal and society, I am going to

0:24.0

be unashamedly rooting around the topics which seemed to have been skipped at school.

0:29.1

Starting from landmark LGBTQ plus court cases to political scandal and downright bazaar

0:35.3

medieval affidities.

0:37.4

The etymology of swear words, gender bias and medicine, satanic panic and cults, there

0:43.0

is nothing off limits, there is nothing we won't talk about.

0:47.2

We'll be bed hopping around different time periods from ancient civilizations up to

0:51.9

the middle ages, the Renaissance and the early modern, right up to now.

0:56.4

You'll laugh, you'll wince, you'll ask yourself

0:59.0

how much has actually changed.

1:01.3

So join me, The Twix the Sheets, the history of sex, scandal and society, a new podcast

1:07.4

from HistoryHit.

1:09.4

What do you like for a man?

1:11.0

Oh, money of course.

1:12.6

You're supposed to rise when an adult speaks to you.

1:14.9

I make perfect copies of whatever my boss needs.

1:17.8

I just turn him to none and push him to the side.

1:21.0

Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor, Yor,

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