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| Title | Date published | ||
| History of Geishas | 2024-05-03 | ||
| Drunk Victorians: Moral Panic & Meat Wine | 2024-04-30 | ||
| Elvis Presley's Sex Life | 2024-04-26 | ||
| Ancient Greek Sexual Health: Wandering Wombs & Headless Beetles | 2024-04-23 | ||
| Sex in the Aztec Empire | 2024-04-19 | ||
| Fetishwear: A Kinky History | 2024-04-16 | ||
| The History of Drag Queens | 2024-04-11 | ||
| Sex & Scandal in King James' Court | 2024-04-08 | ||
| Viking Royalty: Nicknames, Love Poems & Victorian Myths | 2024-04-05 | ||
| History of Sh*t: Aztec Poo Goblins to Viking Turds | 2024-04-02 | ||
| Scandalous Sex Lives of Royalty | 2024-03-29 | ||
| The Dark History of Ballet | 2024-03-26 | ||
| Abraham Lincoln's Sex Life | 2024-03-21 | ||
| The Celebrity Sex Worker of Ancient Greece | 2024-03-19 | ||
| Viking Sexuality | 2024-03-15 | ||
| 18th Century Graffiti: Sex, Murder & Rebellion | 2024-03-12 | ||
| The Real Joan of Arc | 2024-03-08 | ||
| Kink in the Renaissance | 2024-03-05 | ||
| History of Sex Work in America | 2024-03-01 | ||
| Who Really Was Boudica? | 2024-02-27 |