Ottoman Harems Were Disturbing and Ridiculous, Part One: Busting Myths

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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For centuries, westerners devoured lurid, embellished stories about the mysteries of Near Eastern culture -- and, chief amid their fascinations, the idea of the Sultan's harem. But what exactly was this thing, and how did it actually work? In the first part of this two-part episode, Ben, Noel and Max bust some myths about the harem system that continue, weirdly enough, in the modern day.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous historians. Thank you, as always so much for
0:30.9	tuning in. Let's give a shout out to our special guest our super producer
0:35.2	Ben Sleeping Dog Hackett. Oh oh you got to let them lie.
0:40.3	Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa here the sleeping dogs you're supposed to let them let them lie there Oh, who is what I hear. The sleeping dogs, you're supposed to let them lie.
0:44.0	There are three of us, so would that make this a three dog night?
0:48.0	Apparently, three dog morning, or late morning, mid-morning, I don't know what he called 10-15.
0:53.6	It's always night time to me, man.
0:55.0	Fair.
0:56.0	I am, I'm Ben Bullard, you are, Mr. Noel Brown, and today we are diving into a very strange concept that still is widely misunderstood in the
1:07.4	West. What would you say, guys, if someone came to you and said,
1:12.5	hey, do you want to have a secret compound
1:18.2	that is just full of women that you are in love with?
1:22.0	Where do I sign up?
1:24.0	Right.
1:25.0	What I'd say.
1:26.0	Especially no problems.
1:27.0	And I love the caveat, but I think you sort of stack the deck a little bit
1:31.0	by adding that you are also in love with.
1:34.3	Because I mean, let's be real, polyamory is certainly a thing.
1:38.8	It requires consent, it requires agency on the part of all participants a harem ain't that though.
1:46.4	No no we will we will dive in here with this.
1:53.2	This episode, it may be a two-parter,
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