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🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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What is ‘good’ sex? Why might you need to get your protractor out in the bedroom? And when was foreplay ‘invented’?
In this episode, Kate is getting sex advice from Sarah Jones. From handbooks to hardbacks, Sarah shares the different advice that men and women of different backgrounds would receive.
Sarah is a social and cultural historian of gender and sexuality at the University of Bristol.
*WARNING there are adult words and themes in this episode*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Sophie Gee.
Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.
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0:32.4 | Hello my lovely Bit Twixters, it's me Kate Lister. I am here with your fairdues warning. |
0:38.0 | Fairdues, this is a podcast of an adult nature. We will be covering adult themes. |
0:43.4 | Actually we are getting quite naughty today because this episode is about the history of sex advice. |
0:48.4 | So we're going to be covering some fairly dicey ground and you just might not want to listen to that. |
0:53.2 | In which case I would advise you to get out now with your precious ears intact. |
0:58.1 | For the rest of you noties, let's get into it. |
1:04.8 | From five cent pamphlets solding vending machines to racier mail order pamphlets, |
1:10.2 | to even racier expensive manuals meant for professionals and academics to wealth upon. |
1:17.3 | To the final pages of magazines, have you ever wondered how people found out about sex in the past? |
1:24.0 | If you needed sex advice in the 20th century before the internet, where would you go? |
1:29.7 | How would you get that? Well today, Bit Twix the Sheets, we are going to flip you |
1:34.3 | while find out. |
1:42.0 | What do you look for on a man? Oh, money of course. |
1:44.9 | You're supposed to rise when an adult speaks to you. |
1:47.2 | I make perfect copies of whatever my boss needs. |
1:50.4 | I just turn him down and push him to the side. |
1:53.9 | Yes, social courtesy does make a difference. |
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