Work and Play 12: Sex

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This is the last (or next-to-last!) episode in the series, and we talk about something that can be both work AND play: sex. We look at sex within marriage, masturbation, and prostitution, paying special attention to prostitution as a form of lower-classed labor.

Reading List:

Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian London

Ruth Goodman, How to Be a Victorian

Tom Laqueur, Solitary Sex

Historians In The Time Of COVID-19: Decolonization with Varsha Venkatasubramanian

Work and Play 11: Sports