When Britannia Kink-Shamed The Waves | The History of Sex Work (Part 1)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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4.7 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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For as long as there have been fat ugly men, there have been women who charge to have sex with them. But who knew it was us free-loving, sexually liberated brits who invented all the stigma and shame? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor Chapters; 00:00 - Happy ending? 02:40 - Cockallation 06:42 - oldest profession 08:21 - The epic of Gilgamesh 10:01 - Gay sheep 12:30 - Shamhat the harlot 15:29 - Cumscription 20:57 - Ancient Greece 25:39 - When in Rome 28:57 - Lupanar 36:52 - Medieval brothels 39:18 - Cunny for your thoughts 41:44 - Gropecunt lane 45:01 - Cucks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.7	Shopify.com.ukau.ukes-spotify. Welcome back to Finn versus History with me as Horatio Goulds.
0:46.5	Looking for a good time, sunshine.
0:48.3	Today we're talking about the history of good times.
0:51.1	Yes.
0:51.5	It's the history of sex work.
0:53.6	The complete anorac of brasses. Yes, a long, venerable times. Yes. It's the history of sex work, the complete anorac of brasses.
0:56.2	Yes, a long venerable history, venereal history.
0:58.3	An almanac of venereal history, this series.
1:02.1	Sex work has been around as long as there's been a guy too ugly to get laid.
1:07.5	Yes.
1:08.0	So this is one for our fans, one that will hit home for our truces. The first ever fat guy to walk around didn't want to take a t-shirt off, I imagine it's the first guy ever paid for it. And that's the oldest profession, you know? That's the older profession. Is having sex with ugly men. Yes. Have you ever... Have you ever...
1:27.5	Precured sex work?
1:28.3	I've never procured sex work, but the... I did get offered sex work by the masseuse down the road. Remember this? I got offered a happy ending. No, I didn't get offered to be a positive. Sorry. That sounded like she was... No. You know what? No, no. My masseuse didn't...
1:43.6	You'd make it absolutely great.
1:44.6	My soos wasn't just massage my back saying,
1:46.7	You've got to get into being a car. That sounded like she was... No. You know what? No, no, my masseuse didn't... You make it absolutely great.
1:44.7	My masseuse wasn't just massage my back saying, you've got to get into being a jigger. My God. My God, people pay such good money around here. No, it was, um, my back was killing me. I was doing an edit session here. Went down to get it sort out. Quite seriously needed my back sort out. blown out. And then she goes, happy ending?
2:03.3	Yeah. I go, no. She goes, okay. it sort out. Quite seriously needed my back sort of out. Blown out. Blown out.
2:02.0	And then she goes,
2:02.5	happy ending?
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