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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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Sex and the Catholic Church
Sex has its own complicated history. And the attitudes of the church towards sex are often quite surprising too. In the 16th century, when they're first starting out on all this, the sex that only really bothers them is priest and nun sex. Because then it becomes anti-clerical. So you see, you can get sex into the heretical category that way. The other thing that actually upset them more than sex per se, it's surprising how late they focus on sex perse. It's really the 19th century, late 18th century. You can talk about that. See that I really wanted to know that. Like what is the benchmark that we're dealing with here
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