
Medieval Torture with Dana Schwartz
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The Chastidy Belt
All our actual chastity belts that we have are from the 18 hundreds, right? If not outright hoaxes, then kind of as jokes, right? Or as, like, maybe something that it's fun to wear for an evening. I think people underestimate that people, now, a thousand years ago, still had a sense of humor. No, senses of humor were invented in 19 61 by mira and stiller. Bu right, like that. It's a joke. Like, your husband is leaving, right? Classing the historian is pretty funny. And then i would like to imagine historians, 500 years from now, being like, do you know that in the twentieth century
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