The history of sex podcast
joined by Alexandra Collinson, a third year PhD student at Newcastle University studying eighteenth-century literature. We’ll be talking about her project, The Sex Workers’ Revolution: Prostitution and Feminism in Women’s writing, 1787-1801, and more broadly about women, sex work, virtue and motherhood in eighteeth century England and Ireland.
In today's episode I have the absolute honour of talking to Dr Kathleen Lubey about her new book What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century.
In this episode I'm joined by Dr Julie Taddeo and Dr Katherine Byrne to talk about their 2022 book Rape in Period Drama Television: Consent, Myth, and Fantasy.
We’re in 1730s London with gentleman’s servant and OG drag queen John Cooper, also known as Princess Seraphina.
Queer-coding of contemporary WWE characters.
Sex worker, activist & interdisciplinary artist, Carol Leigh (aka Scarlot Harlot) was born in New York City on 11th January 1951.Carol began sex work at the age of 28 after moving to San Francisco in the late 70s. She started working in a parlour & described herself as being "enchanted" by the other women there.... Continue Reading →
Amorous Histories is one year old today!
You can now find Bookshop.org links in episode source lists for some of the books used to research season one. If you buy books linked to this site, I may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops. You will also find lists of other books related to the history of sex, sexuality,... Continue Reading →
Season one has come to an end. Unfortunately I'm just too ill at the moment to finish episode 10 as I promised, so instead of punishing myself for the rest of the summer I'm going to end it here and try to get as well as I can. I plan on giving the podcast a... Continue Reading →
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