Sexual Health Episodes

Dr Kate Stephenson explores the strange and fascinating history of condoms.

Delves into the history of genito-urinary medicine (GUM) and modern-day GUM practice.

Ericka Johnson discusses what we think the prostate is and what we use the prostate to think about, examining it in historical, cultural, social, and medical contexts.

Dr Stephanie Allen examines an element of female sexual fraud; counterfeit maidenheads.

How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? How did they feel when their bodies failed them? This talk investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood.

Mona O’Brien explores how Europeans came to understand syphilis and some of the measures that they enacted in an attempt to control it during the period from the first pandemic outbreak (c.1495) until the 17th century.

Dr Noelle Gallagher explores the weird and wonderful cultural life of deformed noses in eighteenth-century British literature and art.

Tracey Jolliffe discusses the science of syphilis in the 21st century.

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The Strange History of Aristotle's Masterpiece, by Prof. Mary Fissell.