Sodomy, Sex Work and Sex Toys in the Middle Ages with Dr. Eleanor Janega

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Hannah Witton

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4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this episode, Hannah is joined by Dr Eleanor Janega, who is a historian specialising in sexuality, apocalyptic thought, society, propaganda, and the urban experience in the late medieval period. Eleanor discusses the origins of sex negative Christianity, and how people in medieval Europe perceived female sexuality, sodomy, sex work, and queer people. She and Hannah invent a gameshow called "what's the medieval deal with...", featuring the medieval deal with sexualising fruits, pubic hair, and oral sex, and finally Hannah and Eleanor discuss medieval conceptions of marriage and love, and medieval strap-ons and dildos!

MORE ABOUT DR ELEANOR JANEGA
Eleanor Janega (she/her)is a historian specialising in sexuality, apocalyptic thought, society, propaganda, and the urban experience in the late medieval period. Her first book for a general audience The Middle Ages: A Graphic Guide is out in June. She blogs at [going-medieval.com](http://going-medieval.com/) and teaches at the London School of Economics.

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoingMedieval
- Blog: https://going-medieval.com/
- The Middle Ages: A Graphic History: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/689/9781785785917)*

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0:00.0	Life's full of distractions. Just ask your bestie Katie, who's been deep in her dissertation.
0:06.1	Think it's time for a Coca-Cola. So text the group chat.
0:09.6	Just bought a new talk for today. Come out with me so I can wear it. We can share a Coke. I've got a can of your name on it.
0:15.6	Yapping for hours with Coke feels like five minutes. Who will you share a Coke with?
0:20.5	Visit Coke.com.com.uk forward you share a Coke with? Visit coat.com.com.
0:21.4	At UK forward slash share a Coke to customize your can today.
0:25.0	Registration required ends on the 29th of August.
0:27.2	Terms and conditions apply.
0:29.8	You have the unfun penis and vagina sex with your husband because you know like that's
0:35.2	what's probably going to get you pregnant and that's the one that you like you do you know for family and god and like king and country blah blah blah
0:42.2	that's the kind of that's the sort of sex you ever there and the firm sex is everything else
0:46.7	and the church is absolutely desperate in the middle ages to get everyone to knock off all the sodomy
0:52.3	they're like god damn it i, I like, just know.
0:54.8	Hey, God only likes P&V.
1:01.2	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten,
1:04.0	where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating, and our bodies.
1:13.0	Hi, welcome back to doing it.
1:15.4	So some of you may know that I studied history at university and it was during that three
1:20.4	years that I got a taste of the history of sex and quickly became obsessed.
1:26.5	And so I love when I get to explore sexual history on this
1:30.4	podcast with some incredible experts. And today I am thrilled to have Dr. Eleanor Yarniger
1:36.4	joining me. You may know Eleanor from her Twitter account and blog Going Medieval. She's a historian
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