Sexual Health Episodes

Aug. 19, 2022

Ep.5 - Past & Present - Genito - Urinary

Delves into the history of genito-urinary medicine (GUM) and modern-day GUM practice.
Feb. 18, 2022

Ep.77 - Ericka Johnson - Cultural Biography Of Prostate

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.
Feb. 4, 2022

Ep.76 - Stephanie Allen - Counterfeiting the Loss of Virginity

Dr Stephanie Allen examines an element of female sexual fraud; counterfeit maidenheads.
Aug. 6, 2021

Ep.63 - Jennifer Evans - Men's Sexual Health In Early Modern England

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.
May 14, 2021

Ep.57 - Mona O’Brien - Controlling An Angry Dog - Understanding And Managing The French Disease

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.
Nov. 27, 2020

Ep.45 - Noelle Gallagher - Syphilitic Noses In Eighteenth Century British Literature And Art

Dr Noelle Gallagher explores the weird and wonderful cultural life of deformed noses in eighteenth-century British literature and art.
Oct. 30, 2020

Ep.43 - Tracey Jolliffe - Syphilis In The 21st Century

Tracey Jolliffe discusses the science of syphilis in the 21st century.
June 10, 2020

Ep.6 - Mary Fissell - The Strange History Of Aristotle's Masterpiece

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