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    Sexing History

    A podcast about how the history of sexuality shapes our present.

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    Season 2 Episode 3: Sherri Feb 25, 2019
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    In August of 1962, Sherri Chessen boarded a flight to Sweden in order to get an abortion after she was unable to obtain one in the United States. Sherri had accidentally taken medicine containing thalidomide, a drug that caused children to be born with internal injuries and shortened limbs. Thalidomide also caused women to miscarry, deliver stillborn babies, or have children who died during their infancy. Her decision to terminate this risky pregnancy and her journey abroad attracted international attention from journalists, politicians, and religious leaders. Sherri’s ordeal made public what countless American women experienced when they sought to terminate their pregnancies. Her widely shared story changed the way many Americans thought about abortion laws and even about abortion itself.

    Season 2, Bonus Episode 1: Mark S. King Nov 12, 2018
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    Welcome to a bonus track from Sexing History. This track features an extended version of Gillian Frank’s interview with Mark S. King from our most recent episode “Sex Over the Phone.” That episode explores how phone sex lines and dial-a-porn transformed the intimacy of phone conversations into a multi-million-dollar sexual enterprise during the 1980s.

    Mark S. King worked on gay phone sex lines and also owned his own phone sex business. His story helps us better understand the complex relationships between gay history, the history of sex work, the history of the AIDS epidemic and the telecommunications revolution of the 1980s.

    Hosts and Creators: Gillian Frank and Lauren Gutterman.

    Producers: Rebecca Davis, Saniya Lee Ghanoui, Devin McGeehan Muchmore and Jayne Swift.

    Intern: Alexie Glover.

    If you enjoyed this bonus track, please review us on iTunes or Soundcloud and share us on social media.

    Please support our work and keep new episodes coming by making a small donation to Sexing History.

    Season 2, Episode 2: Sex Over the Phone Nov 07, 2018
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    If you enjoyed this episode, please review us on iTunes or Soundcloud and share us on social media. Visit us at www.sexinghistory.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

    Season 2, Episode 1: Bandstand and the Closet Sep 16, 2018
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    If you enjoyed this episode, please review us on iTunes or Soundcloud and share us on social media. Visit us at www.sexinghistory.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

    Episode 8: Mama Was a Star Apr 21, 2018
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    Chances are you’ve never heard of Ruth Wallis, one of the greatest singers, comedians, and performers of sexually suggestive lyrics in the postwar United States. Most of her catalogue remains on vinyl and historians have forgotten her. But from the 1940s until the early 1970s, Ruth Wallis was a bestselling performer and a mainstay at supper clubs and hotels. At a time when it was legally risky for entertainers to sing about sexuality for profit and pleasure, Ruth sold millions of records that used innuendo to playfully hint at a variety of straight and queer sexual pleasures.

    Hosts and Creators: Gillian Frank and Lauren Gutterman.

    Producers: Rebecca Davis, Saniya Lee Ghanoui and Devin McGeehan Muchmore.

    Intern: Jayne Swift.

    Special thanks to Alan Pastman, Mitch Douglas and Rusty Warren for sharing their stories with us. Thank you to Jennifer Caplan and Lauren Sklaroff for sharing their historical expertise with us. Thank you to Alan Pastman for sharing his personal archive.

    If you enjoyed this episode, please review us on iTunes or Soundcloud and share us on social media.

    Please support our work and keep new episodes coming by making a small donation to Sexing History.

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    Episode 7: A Church With AIDS Mar 13, 2018
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    In the 1980s and 1990s, the San Francisco Metropolitan Community Church wrestled with profound questions: What does it mean to minister a gay church when so many in the congregation are dying from AIDS-related complications and grieving the recently dead? How do you have faith during an epidemic? And what does it mean to participate in communion in a community ravaged by a plague?

    Episode 6: Sexism Takes Flight Feb 13, 2018
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    In the 1960s, the airline industry ramped up its sexualization of stewardesses in order to increase revenues. Decades before the #MeToo movement, flight attendants navigated a workplace in which their employers required them to stay thin, remain unmarried, and squeeze into revealing clothing every day. In the early 1970s, flight attendants organized one of the first campaigns against workplace sexual harassment, assault, and sexual discrimination.

    Episode 5: Touch Me, I'm Yours! Dec 11, 2017
    Show notes Episode 5: Touch Me, I'm Yours Sexing History

    In the 1970s, Evangelical women published bestselling marriage manuals. These books encouraged millions of American women to have active and exciting sex lives. They also insisted that in order to find happiness, a woman must submit to her husband's divinely ordained authority.

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    Episode 4: Mixed Blessings Nov 16, 2017
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    In 1973, CBS cancelled the top-rated sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie after one season. The reason: Jewish religious leaders objected to its positive portrayal of an interfaith marriage. They believed that interfaith marriage would lead to the erasure of Jews in the United States.

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    Episode 3: I Must Increase My Bust! Oct 26, 2017
    Show notes Episode 3: I Must Increase My Bust Sexing History

    In 1966, before breast implants were widely available or popular, Jack Feather patented a "spring type breast developer." He made millions of dollars promising women that they could change their bodies and increase their sex appeal.

    https://www.sexinghistory.com/episode-3

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