Sex & The Tudors
Not Just the Tudors
History Hit
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
There’s not an infinite number of ways that humans can act on sexual desire. Human bodies haven’t changed, but the cultural landscape around sex has. What people believed about it, the morality surrounding it, and the paraphernalia concerning it have all changed a lot. Sex has a history, and History Hit has launched a new podcast to explore it called Betwixt the Sheets.
In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dr. Kate Lister, host of Betwixt the Sheets, to discuss sex, desire, witches, impotence, condoms and syphilis in the 16th and 17th centuries.This episode contains sexually explicit content.
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| 0:27.6 | There's not an infinite number of ways in which humans |
| 0:31.5 | can act on sexual desire. Human bodies haven't changed |
| 0:36.8 | but the cultural landscape around sex has. What people believed about it, |
| 0:42.0 | the morality surrounding it and the paraphernalia concerning it have all changed a lot. |
| 0:48.4 | Sex has a history. History hits launching a new podcast to explore this history |
| 0:54.4 | which is called Betwix the Sheets. Its host is Dr Kate Lister, author of |
| 1:00.4 | A Curious History of Sex, lecturer at Lead Trinity University |
| 1:04.6 | and owner of the online research project TheHorseOfYour.com. |
| 1:10.0 | I caught up with Kate to talk about sex, desire, |
| 1:13.1 | witch's impotence, condoms and syphilis in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| 1:19.4 | It may not surprise you to learn that what follows contains some content of a sexually explicit nature. |
| 1:29.6 | Kate, it's lovely to talk to you today. I am really pleased that you are doing a podcast |
| 1:36.2 | for history hit. It's going to be fascinating. I can't wait to listen to it. |
| 1:40.2 | I'm so excited to be here and thank you so much for asking me on. It's just lovely to finally |
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