The latest release in Kim Kardashian’s clothing brand is a mini thong adorned with fake pubic hair. Such ‘merkins’ date further back than the Great Plague.
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The recently discovered 2,000 year old Roman dildo barely makes a dint in the long-standing history of sex-toys and aids.
From Popes and philosophers to writers and emperors, the foot fetish has a long and storied history in our world.
The Hellfire Club in Stranger Things is a school DnD club – but the real Hellfire Club from history which it’s based upon is far more scandalous and notorious.
Pompeii is remembered as a place of surprising liberality – but the ‘masturbating man’ is probably a far less lurid tale than assumed.
While Netflix’s Bridgerton is both incredibly romantic and erotic, the reality is it’s estimated 1in 5 people in the Regency period in London had syphilis and other STIs.
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