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.

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