Dirty Sexy History
By Jessica Cale
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Going beyond the sanitized and idealized to the dirty reality of human history with Jessica Cale. There's more to history than what you learned in high school, and we're going to skip to the good stuff together.
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Episode 4.8. Warm Bodies. The Life and Times of a Renaissance Anatomist
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Episode 4.7. Love and War: The Secret Lives of Ancient Women
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Episode 4.6. Tea in Colonial America
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Episode 4.5. The Undesirables: How Britain Locked Away a Generation
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Episode 4.4. Abortion in Early Modern Italy
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Episode 4.3. The History of Nostalgia
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May 30, 2024 |
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Episode 4.2. Josephine McCarty: Abortionist, Spy, Mother of the Year?
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May 15, 2024 |
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Episode 4.1. High Priestess and Empress: Florence Farr and Ellen Terry
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May 01, 2024 |
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Episode 3.21. Dancing With Myself: The History and Science of Masturbation
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Episode 3.20. “Fallen Women” in Victorian Poetry
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Episode 3.19. Adult Toys
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Episode 3.18. Mythbusting Corsets
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Episode 3.17. Men’s Sexual Health in Early Modern England
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Episode 3.16. Renaissance Beauty: Cosmetics, Poison, and Plastic Surgery
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Episode 3.15. The Oneida Community: Progressive Utopia or Polyamorous Cult?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Episode 3.14. Fairies, Entities, Ghosts, and Gods: Rebel Folklore with Icy Sedgwick
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Episode 3.13. Black Sam Bellamy and the Golden Age of Piracy
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Episode 3.12. Big Cult-Leader Energy. The Legacy of Madame Blavatsky
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Episode 3.11. Fight Like Hell: Women and the American Labor Movement
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Episode 3.10. Snuff, Smelling Salts, and Sulfur: Scent in 18th Century Fiction
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Episode 3.9. Inside the Chicken Ranch, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Episode 3.8. The American Plan
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Episode 3.7. Psychotropic Drugs in Nineteenth Century France
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Episode 3.6. Naming Gotham: The People Behind NYC’s Place Names
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Episode 3.5. George Remus: The Bootleg King and the Women Who Brought Him Down
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Episode 3.4. When Whales Attack
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Episode 3.3. Marriage, Dependence, and Divorce in Revolutionary America
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Episode 3.2. The HMS Black Joke and the Battle Against the Slave Trade
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May 24, 2023 |
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Episode 3.1. A Haunted History of Invisible Women
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May 10, 2023 |
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Episode 2.20. Myth America with Dr Kevin Kruse and Dr Julian Zelizer
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Episode 2.19. Sex and Social Protest in 18th Century Pornography
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Episode 2.17. Pink Triangle Legacies: From Imprisonment to Gay Liberation
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Episode 2.16. Pamela Colman Smith and the Golden Dawn
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Episode 2.15. Queer Suffragists with Dr. Wendy Rouse
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Episode 2.14. Monstrous Women with Dr Nicole Dittmer
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Episode 2.13: Founding F*ck Buddies with Dr. Cassandra Good
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Episode 2.12. Radium Cosmetics with Lucy Jane Santos
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Episode 2.11. The Gender Outlaws of 19th Century France
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Episode 2.10. Misinformation Nation: 18th Century Fake News with Dr Jordan Taylor
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Episode 2.9. Illegitimate Birth in the 18th Century with Dr Kate Gibson
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Episode 2.8. Women’s Mental Institutions of the 19th Century
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Episode 2.7. The Invention of Gender with Dr. Sandra Eder
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Episode 2.6. The Gilded Edge with Dr Catherine Prendergast
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Episode 2.5. The Women’s House of Detention
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Episode 2.4. Before We Were Trans: Gender Nonconformity in History with Dr Kit Heyam
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Episode 2.3. The Real Stede Bonnet with Jeremy Moss
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Episode 2.2: Secrets and Scandals of Regency Britain with Violet Fenn
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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The Facemaker with Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Episode 33: Gunpowder Toothpaste. 10 Surprising Victorian Beauty Trends
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Episode 32: “The Poor Whores’ Petition” and the Shrove Tuesday Riots of 1668
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Episode 31: Lola Montez Part Two. When Lola Met Ludwig
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Episode 30: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Claude Duval
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Episode 29: The Legend of Lola Montez (Part 1)
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Episode 28: Historical Themes in Heavy Metal
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Episode 27: Ariadne Unraveled
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Episode 26: The Chevalier de Saint-Georges
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Episode 25: “Female Husbands.” LGBTQ+ Unions in England through the Georgian Era
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Episode 24: Cocaine, Coca-Cola, and the Contraceptive that Wasn’t
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Episode 23: The Monster Mash
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Episode 22: Byron’s Fault. An Introduction to Vampires with Violet Fenn
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Episode 21: Daniel Mendoza and the Modern Art of Boxing
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Episode 20: Death in the Walls. How Arsenic Green Poisoned Victorian Britain
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Episode 19: 40 Elephants, with special guest Sarah MacLean
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Episode 18: The Catacombs of Paris
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Episode 17: The Malleus Maleficarum. Witch Hunts in Late Medieval Europe
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Episode 16: Witchcraft, Part One. Women’s Vices
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Episode 15: Heroin and the Spanish Flu
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Episode 14: Porn. Politics and Censorship in 19th Century England
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Episode 13: Perfect Love and Sacred Sin. The Spiritual Side of Historical Kink
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Episode 12: Dead Sexy. Tuberculosis and Other Beauty Tips
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Episode 11: Dreams of Love: Franz Liszt and la Dame aux Camelias
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Episode 10: The Necessary Evil. How Sex Work Built London’s Churches
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Episode 9: Pumpkin Spice Laudanum
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Episode 8: The Storming of the Bastille
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Episode 7: In Love and Dirt: Cross-Class Romance in 19th Century England
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Episode 6: The Transgender Priests of Cybele
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Episode 5: Chasing Ghosts in 19th Century Paris. Horror Tourism in the City of Light
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Episode 4: The Sickness of Naples. Syphilis and the Invention of the Modern Condom
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Episode 3: The Problematic History of BMI, plus Deadly Diet Drugs of the 1930s
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Episode 2: Hurts So Good! 19th Century Dominatrix Theresa Berkley
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Episode 1: Contraception in History, from Pomegranates to Pennyroyal
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May 26, 2021 |
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Dirty Sexy History (Trailer)
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Apr 26, 2021 |