Victorians Got Super Weird With Flirting, Part One: "Fan Fiction"

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Victorian Era was, on the surface, a time of almost cartoonish sexual repression. Courtship was governed by rigid sets of rules and heirarchy, and even meeting a prospective partner outside of these codified steps could be considered a breach of cultural mores. So, what's a lover to do? In the first part of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max explore the conspiratorial, ridiculous ways people flirted in the Victorian Era.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous historians.
0:29.1	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:32.1	Now, I'm going to slide into the DMs here of our show, uh, and,
0:37.8	and hit up our super producer, Mr. Max Williams with a slow blink.
0:44.1	Max,
0:44.6	tap the fan is my nickname for you, Max.
0:48.0	Tap the fan just so.
0:50.5	Uh, hold that glove off slowly, one finger at a time, seductively.
0:55.7	I want you to really feel that one.
0:57.5	Right.
0:58.0	My name is Ben Bullen.
0:59.8	Who are those dulcet tones?
1:01.8	Why, that's Mr. Noel Brown, who's been sliding into my DMs for a number of years now.
1:07.7	It's so erotic when you say it like that. We mostly, guys,
1:14.4	we mostly text each other. Gosh, it's weird how often we talk even when we're not working.
1:23.0	Fellow ridiculous historians, Noel and I have been flirting with each other in a very supportive way for lo, these many years.
1:30.9	I was going to say, lo, these men.
1:32.5	Wow.
1:32.9	Oh, my gosh.
1:33.8	They were off to such a bang up start.
1:35.7	Oh, my gosh.
1:35.7	Mind reader.
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