The REAL Bridgerton: Georgian Sex

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The long-awaited third season of Bridgerton is here! And with it, we all become obsessed with a particularly sexy version of Regency-era history.

Today's episode is the first in our mini-series on the REAL Bridgerton. Across four episodes we'll uncover Georgian attitudes to drugs and alcohol, insights into the celebrities of the time, and a re-cap on the historical accuracies of the latest season.

First and foremost, though, what was sex really like in Georgian England? How effective were the fashionable animal gut condoms? And what erotica were people enjoying?

Today's guests are Catherine Curzon, Kate Stephenson, Julie Peakman and Katie Wignall.

This episode was edited and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	1929 on the remote island of St Kilda Vary has lost her heart but not to her
0:11.0	fiance in love with the wrong man, she awaits the spring with dread,
0:16.0	soon to become a stranger's wife,
0:18.0	until suddenly she must leave the island,
0:21.0	changing the course of her life forever. Lose yourself in the... the Swan, the stolen hours, available now in paperback from Waterstones.
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0:42.0	I thought in that moment,
0:45.0	oh my God, we've summoned something from this board.
0:50.0	This is uncanny USA.
0:53.0	He says, somebody's in the house and I screamed.
0:57.0	Aghhh.
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1:19.0	You may have heard that London's fashionable set of returned for the new series of Bridgerton.
1:26.5	You've seen their love stories, watched their decadent parties, and you've met the Royals
1:32.1	and High Society darlings. But today we're stripping
1:37.8	back all the televised glamour and finding out about the real Bridgeton. Sex, drugs and celebrities in 18th century Britain.
1:47.2	From the real life dating taboos in the Georgian period...
1:50.5	This thing that if you had one dance with a man at a ball, that's fine.
1:55.5	Two dances signaled you were getting close.
1:58.4	Three dancers, you may as well be married because everyone was going to be like whoa to partying and letting loose.
2:04.7	So these glitzy sort of ornate gas-lipped drinking venues that sprang up in cities around the country where you don't sit down with your
2:15.0	pals and have a drink you're standing at the bar and you're having shots of gin.
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