Victorian Sex
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
History Hit
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
They’re famously thought of as a buttoned up prudish bunch, but we all know they loved to bump uglies as much as anyone today.
Were the spanking punishments of boarding schools really the origins of flagellation brothels? Who were the pin-ups of Victorian women? And what did the saucy portrait Queen Victoria gave to Prince Albert look like?
Today we go Betwixt the Victorian Sheets with Dan Snow, from History Hit sister podcast Dan Snow’s History Hit, to find out all about Victorian Sex.
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| 0:50.0 | This is an adult podcast spoken by adults to other adults about a range of adult things in an adult way and you should be an adult too |
| 0:59.0 | Today we are talking about Victorian sex. So we're gonna get monkey baby. That's just how it is |
| 1:05.0 | And if that's not all right with you give this one a skip because fair dues you won't want |
| 1:21.0 | The Victorians what first leaps to your mind when you think about the 19th century |
| 1:28.0 | Dresses that cover women's ankles, Charles Dickens Queen Victoria in full frump mode |
| 1:35.0 | Flaggulation |
| 1:37.0 | Yep, yep you heard me right but twixters |
| 1:39.0 | All right, maybe not so much the last one but it should be because the Victorians were a notoriously kinky group of people |
| 1:47.0 | They loved erotic fiction, they invented photographic porn and they were definitely partial to a bit of slap and tickle in the bedroom |
| 1:56.0 | Not some of them were anyway including some pretty big names in the 19th century |
| 2:02.0 | So today but twixters we are going to be busting some sex myths around the Victorians |
| 2:08.0 | Why have they ended up with a really prudish reputation when they were proper monkey pups? |
| 2:14.0 | What did they use as contraceptives and did Queen Victoria really say lie back and think of England? |
| 2:26.0 | What do you look for a man? |
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