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Title | Date published | ||
Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress? | 2023-02-14 | ||
Food, Sin & Shame | 2023-02-10 | ||
The Real Casanova | 2023-02-07 | ||
Marie Stopes: Birth Control & Eugenics | 2023-02-03 | ||
Prison Plastic Surgery | 2023-01-31 | ||
Wallis Simpson | 2023-01-27 | ||
Eunuchs | 2023-01-24 | ||
A History of Porn | 2023-01-20 | ||
The Blues | 2023-01-17 | ||
Royal Sibling Rifts | 2023-01-13 | ||
Syphilis | 2023-01-10 | ||
Teen Sex | 2023-01-06 | ||
Paganism & Festive Traditions | 2022-12-30 | ||
Santaphilia: Sexual Attraction to Santa | 2022-12-23 | ||
Sex Advice in the 20th Century | 2022-12-20 | ||
Alexander the Great's Sex Life | 2022-12-16 | ||
Trash | 2022-12-13 | ||
Rochester: The Restoration's Filthiest Poet with Neil Gaiman | 2022-12-09 | ||
Banned History | 2022-12-06 | ||
Sex Myths | 2022-12-02 |