Sexual Advice: 2000 Years of the Serious and Bizarre [12min]

In his book, The Science of a New Life published in 1888, Dr John Cowan said that tight hair buns and corsets caused women unnatural excitement. At the same time, women were beginning to criticize the existing sexual arrangements within society as being for the benefit of men only. Jenni Murray is joined by Dr Lesley Hall, who has edited an anthology of women's writing on sex, Outspoken Women: An Anthology of Women’s Writing on Sex 1870-1969 (Routledge), and John Naish, author of Put What Where: Over 2000 Years of Bizarre Sex Advice (Harper Element), to discuss the sexual advice written for and about women over the past 2000 years.