Episode 7
Tudor Sex
Why did Henry VIII want everyone to know about his wet dreams?
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · History Hit
May 6, 202245m 28sExplicit
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Show Notes
<p>WARNING: This episode includes adult themes and explicit words.</p><br><p>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?</p><br><p>Suzannah Lipscomb from our sister podcast, Not Just the Tudors, joins Kate Betwixt the Sheets to talk all things sex in the 16th century.</p><br><p>Find out whether sex back then really was just to reproduce, the ‘discovery’ of the clitoris, and the truth about royal syphilis.</p><br><p>Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Seyi Adaobi.</p><br><p>Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.</p><br><p>This podcast includes music from Epidemic Sounds and an archive clip from The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933.</p>
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