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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Introduction

From the 1540s until 1966, the Catholic Church compiled lists of texts and writers that they deemed to be damaging. It was an actual list of who was naughty. Who made these decisions and what made a text bad enough to make the list? Today betwixters sheets, we're gonna find out. And why talking about sex was often not actually seen as a problem, unless it included monks and nuns.

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