Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world

and throughout time. My name is Eli. I'm Irene. I'm Alice. And today we're talking about Samuel

Stewart, the English professor turned tattooist and sex researcher. So as you can imagine from the topic of this episode, we have some content warnings

before we get started. This episode will contain periotypical homophobia and also just

the general repressive sexual attitudes of like the early to mid-20th century. It will also

contain explicit sexual content.

So no children should probably be listening to this episode, okay?

This includes discussion of sex between people with large age gaps, sex between a teacher

and his student, and also discussion of BDSM, specifically dubiously

consented to BDSM, sometimes that becomes extremely violent. There will also be mentions

of drug addiction, alcoholism, sex work, violence and gang violence, internalized homophobia, and

the AIDS epidemic. So if any of that sounds like something you don't want to listen to,

fair.

Feel free to turn this episode off and listen to one of other episodes,

which will have content warnings,

but definitively less content warnings than this, probably.

Before we get started properly, I'll also do a quick mention of our sources.

My main source for this

was Justin Springs' biography, Secret Historian, The Life and Times of Samuel Stewart,

Professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade.

Sexual renegade. Yes. I primarily just reference this to say that, like, it was good,

but once we're not going to spend much of this episode dragging the biographer,

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