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May 2022
45m 28s

Tudor Sex

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WARNING: This episode includes adult themes and explicit words.


Why did Henry VIII want everyone to know about his wet dreams? What animal product were condoms made from? And was coffee really ruining the sex lives of wives?


Suzannah Lipscomb from our sister podcast, Not Just the Tudors, joins Kate Betwixt the Sheets to talk all things sex in the 16th century.


Find out whether sex back then really was just to reproduce, the ‘discovery’ of the clitoris, and the truth about royal syphilis.


Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Seyi Adaobi.


Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.


This podcast includes music from Epidemic Sounds and an archive clip from The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933.



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