Ep 07 | History's super confused ideas about women's sex lives (with Kate Lister)

The ancient Greeks believed a woman's womb wandered through her body and made her ill. Medieval Europeans believed a woman's orgasm was necessary for conception. And the Victorians believed masturbation would drive you to madness. Sex historian Dr. Kate Lister — host of Betwixt the Sheets and author of Flick: A History of Sexual Pleasure — joins me for a tour through the wildly strange, often infuriating history of women's sexuality. For most of that history, women were believed to be the more sex-crazed gender. What can we say, girls will be girls... Buy the book: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9178/978085... Read more: www.broadhistory.com/historys-super-confused-ideas-about-womens-sex-lives/