We explode gender norms by exploring their incredible variety across time.
Episodes
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Was jazz worse than Marilyn Manson? It's panic at the disco this week, as we explore how parents of Interwar Germany and beyond fretted over this African American-rooted music, which fostered a new sexual ethos.
Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.
Monday Jan 06, 2020
Monday Jan 06, 2020
Why of all things were the Nazis terrified of the flapper girl? Find out how fear of die neue Frau or the "New Woman" led Nazis to construct their ideal woman as her opposite, and how they stamped her out by further vilifying Jews.
Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
A shockingly high number of clay tablet receipts for certain transactions bear the names of religious women living outside the patriarchal system. Was the naditum the lady tycoon of Ancient Mesopotamia?
Oh, and fun fact: it's also a brand of fashionable leather bags and luxury goods! I'm not kidding, they were inspired by the example of the ancient naditum - awesome, right? Check it out at naditum.com.
Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Boys don't cry, right? But the gala of Ancient Sumer did. In fact, they used a special dialect reserved for women to present as females when they sang lamentations in the temple. Could this be the oldest transgender tradition in history?
Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Monday Dec 23, 2019
We're picking up good vibrations, today, folks. We've got the sponsor of our show, Dr. Gillian Kenny, historian of women, sex, and magic in medieval Europe, to teach us about our tool-using species. Today, it's everything you always wanted to know about sex toys, but were afraid to ask!
Dr. Gillian Kenny is a research fellow at Trinity College in Dublin in the Center for Gender and Women’s Studies. She can be found on Twitter as @medievalgill.
Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Monday Dec 23, 2019
A compilation? That's right. This is all the skits from our show this year, plus a few others of mine you may or may not have heard before, and one you definitely haven't heard before. Happy Holidays, everybody!
Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Is sex sacred? Or at least, can it be? The Da Vinci Code revolves a secret sex ritual, but was there ever a time and place when such rituals were common? Welcome to Ancient Sumer.
Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Why did eunuchs arise? And what does it have to do with the hyper-masculinity of ancient Assyria?
Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
How did ancient peoples have sex? How much of our sexual repertoire - you know, the positions, techniques, and so on - varies across time? And how much stays the same? Today, we explore the bedrooms of ancient Babylonians, as revealed by a compendium of omens dealing with sex.
Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.
Monday Nov 25, 2019
Monday Nov 25, 2019
You know you've wondered... hmm, what would it be like to be whipped in front of a crowd of people? Or to hold the whip? The real thing may not be quite what you imagined. What is it really like to experience the BDSM community today? And can it tell us anything about those in the kink scene in Weimar Berlin? That's what we're exploring today with our interview with kink insider Rusty.
Rusty, who prefers she/her pronouns, has been an educator and speaker in both the kink and non-monogamous communities since mid-2016. She enjoys exploring personal dichotomies. For example, she is both an avid Rope Top (meaning she ties people up) and a submissive in a 24/7 TPE dynamic (or Total Power Exchange, i.e. the type of all-encompassing arrangement where one might have dominion over things like bedtime, finances, and multivitamins). She is passionate about diversity, inclusion, acceptance, consent, and personal accountability. In addition, she draws wisdom from over a decade in the recovery community and a background in critical sociolinguistics. She identifies as queer, kinky, non-binary, feminist, and an egalitarian polyamorist. She can be found on Fetlife as Mominant and her writings on ethical relationships can be found at the blog Poly With a Big Heart: http://www.polywithabigheart.com
Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.