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

Trash

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

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

From reality television to theatre productions to foreign goods, the word trash has a long history of being used to deride things that are thought to have no value.


To find out what this history is, and how this language has been used against women in particular, Kate spoke to Kat Marchant of Reading the Past.

 

*WARNING there are adult words and themes in this episode*

 

Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Joseph Knight.

 

Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.


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0:00.0

Hello, my lovely bed Twixters. It's me, Kate Lister. I am here with your Fair Doos warning.

0:06.8

Fair Doos! This is a podcast of an adult nature. There will be adult themes, adult language,

0:12.0

adult discussion between adults about adulty things. And if that isn't for you,

0:17.1

don't even worry about it. Just run. Get out now. Get out while you still can,

0:20.7

because Fair Doos, you have been warned. For the rest of you, let's get into it.

0:30.8

What is trash? Hmm, trash. Trashy TV, trashy magazines, or do we mean like actual rubbish,

0:42.9

like our American cousins say, to gather trash? It's probably not something you've ever

0:47.2

stopped to think about for very long, but that's exactly what we're doing on today's episode.

0:52.1

Trash is a word that has been used on a regular basis to degrade someone or something

0:57.8

for centuries, a lot longer than you might have thought it's been around.

1:02.0

So when did we start using it in its modern sense? How did it come to be used that way?

1:07.5

And when Shakespeare said that something was trashy, what did he mean by that?

1:23.3

What do you look for on a man? Oh, money.

1:26.2

You're supposed to rise when an adult speaks to him.

1:28.4

I make perfect copies of whatever my boss needs. I just turn him to none and push him to life.

1:34.4

Let's do it! Let's do it now! Let's do it now!

1:40.9

Yes, social courtesy does make a difference.

1:43.5

Goodness, my parents look bad. Goodness, there's nothing to do with it, Daryl.

1:47.2

Hello and welcome back to Patwix, the shapes, the history of sex,

1:55.6

scandal in society, with me, Kate Lister. One man-or-woman's trash is another

2:00.7

man-or-woman's treasure. You know what I mean, you know what I mean.

2:05.0

And we might use this saying today to talk about a car boot sale or a charity shop,

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