Hello my lovely betwixters it's me Kate Lister. I am here you are here. We're all here and now I have to give you a fair dues warning here is. This is an adult podcast,

spoken by adults to other adults about adulty things covering a range of adult subjects

in an adulty way and you should be an adult too.

Phew, I don't know about you but I certainly feel safer continuing with this

podcast on with the show It's the third century A.D. and you have got yourself a very boring boyfriend that frankly you would rather be shut of.

But it is not that easy to elbow your affiant or your partner or your husband at this particular time period.

So what are you going to do? Who are you going to ask for advice?

Well, one source, if your Sanskrit is up to scratch of course, and if you were privileged enough to know how to read, was the Kama Sutra.

We often think of this as a text to tell you how to have sex with people, but that is such a tiny, tiny part of it.

One of the things it gives you some advice on is how to dump a partner. I hope you all taking notes out there. Here we go.

If your boyfriend is boring and you want him to well basically dump you first it

advises that a woman talks about things her partner doesn't know

about, to show no amazement and only contempt for the things that he does know about.

I mean that's gold isn't it?

That would still work today.

It advises her to talk in public about the bad habits he can't give up.

And to criticize men with the same faults when they're alone together.

And in the end, the text assures us,

the release will happen all by itself.

I'm not surprised.

Truly a sacred text and as we will find out

there's so much more to it than sex and even relationship advice.

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