Why Will No One Date These Guys?
Why Will No One Date These Guys?
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Episode 177: Book Club - Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America pt2
1 hour 10 minutes Posted Sep 2, 2024 at 7:00 am.
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Joel and Naomi get back together to continue discussing Intimate Matters. In this section we talk more about community regulation of vice, how "queer" behavior was punished but also strangely tolerated by early settlers, the "duty" of sex in relationhips, how 17th century Enlightenment ideas radically changed people's perspectives on individual happiness, and how prostitution filled a social vacuum left by wars and new settlement patterns during the same period. Joel also goes on a tear about...