Ridiculous History Presents: A History of "Adult" Toys, Part 1

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

While it's a taboo subject in the modern day, it turns out people have been improvising ways to pleasure themselves since, well, the dawn of history. In this week's two-part takeover episode, Ben and Noel join Eli and Diana Banks, real-life spouses and creators of the hit podcast Ridiculous Romance, to discuss the strange, ridiculous (and at-times disturbing) history of sex toys across the planet. Heads-up, this one gets a little raunchy.

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0:00.0	My father was a fly star.
0:01.7	It was Spike Beatlemania.
0:03.2	But not here in America.
0:04.7	Dean Reed criticized the American government
0:06.8	from behind the Iron Curtain.
0:08.3	He had lots of enemies.
0:09.8	He'll calm you down, think all that.
0:11.3	He wanted to come back home,
0:12.8	and then the unthinkable happened.
0:15.0	Dean Reed died.
0:16.2	Come with me, Ramona Reed,
0:17.8	to learn more about the extraordinary life
0:20.0	and mysterious death of revolutionary.
0:22.7	Listen to Red Elvis, a curiosity audio network podcast
0:25.8	on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast,
0:28.0	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.3	Hi, it's Bethany Frankel.
0:31.9	My time on the Real Housewives of New York
0:33.8	is a few years behind me.
0:35.2	And now I'm ready to put the real back
0:37.1	into the Real Housewives.
0:38.6	That's where my new podcast Rewives comes in.
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