Tudor Sex

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

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

WARNING: This episode includes adult themes and explicit words.

Why did Henry VIII want everyone to know about his wet dreams? What animal product were condoms made from? And was coffee really ruining the sex lives of wives?

Suzannah Lipscomb from our sister podcast, Not Just the Tudors, joins Kate Betwixt the Sheets to talk all things sex in the 16th century.

Find out whether sex back then really was just to reproduce, the ‘discovery’ of the clitoris, and the truth about royal syphilis.

Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Seyi Adaobi.

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

This podcast includes music from Epidemic Sounds and an archive clip from The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933.

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0:00.0	It will come as no surprise that there are adult themes and explicit language in this episode.
0:05.1	Let's be honest, you'd be disappointed with me if there wasn't.
0:13.3	I met a mole that's stuck about children being found in the group with bushes.
0:18.0	That's not true.
0:18.9	Oh no, he's first a stalker.
0:22.2	When I head, there's an egg.
0:25.1	It's not entirely all how I'm doing.
0:30.1	In the most champion act of mansplaining in the whole of human history,
0:37.3	two Italian anatomists discovered the clitoris in 1559.
0:42.4	But what were the tutors really up to in the bedroom?
0:46.0	Thanks to Hollywood, you'd be forgiven for assuming that
0:48.3	tutors sex was passionate bodice ripping between two gorgeous A-listers
0:52.9	with a set of full white teeth and what we can assume is wonderful body odor.
0:57.6	But sex back then was a lot grimeier, involving dodgy contraception,
1:02.7	cod pieces, and ugly STIs.
1:06.5	So join me, Kate Lister, but tweaks the sheets as we romp through sex and sexuality in the
1:11.5	chewer and Elizabethan periods.
1:15.9	Why do you look for a man?
1:17.2	Oh, money, of course.
1:18.8	You're supposed to rise when an adult speaks to you.
1:21.0	I make perfect copies of whatever my boss needs.
1:24.2	I just turn him up and push him to the side.
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