Hello and welcome to Sex Power Money, the podcast with me Sarah Pasco. I'm incredibly excited about this

week's guest. It's Dr Kate Lister who is a lecturer in the School of Arts and

Communication at Leeds Trinity University. She is the author of an incredibly expansive book

The Curious History of Sex as well as being the curator of the online research project

Hause of Your and a regular feature writer for the I-News.

During my interview with Kate, my dog had a couple of sneezing fits.

They were absolutely adorable, but maybe slightly distracting. If you're listening and thinking who's huffing and puffing I promise it's not me or Kate. It's my dog.

With periods, what I didn't understand and I had good, like I read a book about it called Have You Started yet and I was taught about it a lot at school, but I still didn't understand that it didn't come out of you all at once like a we.

Straight in there with periods we were but don't worry I will start the actual proper interview in a moment. I'm trying to think what I thought of it. I do remember looking

at my seat every time I stood up in case there had been this kind of like like

scene from Carrie type of episodes

you know and it was all like this this fear that everybody would be able to tell

you have some kind of hideous like aura around you and yeah it's not giving people you know

know enough don't you but you don't know enough to not start making up

completely mad stuff in your own head.

So what was your journey into the kind of research and writing that you do now?

So always been interested in, I suppose, in interested sex in a personal level and then I found that if you turn that into a

profession as well then you get to obsess about it a lot more but people are far less

judgy about it. You just go no no it's research darling yes I suppose though that kind of

what really interested me in it is is more that like from a historical point of

view is the fact that it's it's such a fantastic leveler

throughout history you know like like because all of history is mostly trying to piece together different people

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