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Hello my lovely betwixters. It's me, Kate Lister, welcome back once again to Betwigs the Sheets,

the show where we get purvey with history for your entertainment and your education.

But before we can go any further together, I do have to let you know.

It's an adult podcast. It's spoken by adults to other adults, about adult things, an adult

away can arrange adult subjects, and you've been adult too. Right, you feel safer? Well, I

certainly do. Let's crack on. As you know, one of my favourite and certainly reoccurring themes of the

show is how the Victorians fucked everything up.

And they really did.

And today's episode is a prime candidate for exploring this theme.

Britain's involvement in South Asia, what is now known as India, far predates the Victorians. But there's a particular Victorian morality that they love to impose on anyone and everyone that they came into contact with.

And of course, that meant the British Raj in India as well.

Not only did they get themselves all het up about what the natives were getting up to, but sex work became a real focus for them.

Of course it did.

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