Halloween Minisode - Mary Shelley's Virginity Story

Ep #5: History Of Lonely Hearts Ads (Internet Killed The Newspaper Star)

Before the surefire practice of skulling 10 Buzzballs and firing off a round of lustful, yet regrettable, Instagram DMs, humans turned to print media to seek companionship, financial security, and necessities of the flesh. Lonely hearts ads have been around since the late 17th century; however, the art of seeking connections via your local newspaper's personal section was ever-evolving. What started as a practical and relatively impersonal way to seek marriage candidates from similar social and financial standings eventually became a safe place to discuss kink, sexuality, and unmet needs over the course of hundreds of years. Join us as we investigate how Lonely Hearts ads evolved as the world underwent massive societal shifts, and how unfettered internet access was the final knife in the back of this lost art. "Penny Press", Robert McNamara, ThoughtCo. [https://www.thoughtco.com/penny-press-definition-1773293] "Body Dug Up on Guinness Farm is That of Bugsberg.", The Austin- American Statesman, 1908 [https://www.newspapers.com/article/austin-american-statesman-belle-guinness/27883575/] Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column, H. Cocks [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7722238-classified] "From the battlefield, lonely WWI soldiers found love using newspaper personal ads", Stephanie Buck [https://medium.com/timeline/lonely-soldier-personal-ads-7d23f5cde681] "A Brief History of Personal Ads", John Young, Owlcation [A Brief History of Personal Ads]

Ep #4: Ancient Aphrodisiacs: Mad Honey, Spanish Fly & More

From sucking down oysters in wine-soaked Roman symposiums to prehistoric playboys feeding phallic-shaped foods to the objects of their desires, humans have found eccentric ways to set the mood for thousands of years. The ancient practice of using aphrodisiacs to seduce and inspire erotic notions has been around for about as long as we’ve been getting down and dirty. SOURCES: Oxford's Social History of Medicine Volume 29 Issues 4 November 2016, Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England by Dr. Jennifer Evans APHRODISIAC Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aphrodisiac]    Cleopatra: from turpentine and juniper to ionone and irone - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30396389/]    The Project Gutenberg eBook of Love Potions Through the Ages, by Harry E. Wedeck [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/63577/63577-h/63577-h.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com]    (212) From Myth to Medicine: Aphrodisiacs Through the Ages | The Journal of Sexual Medicine | Oxford Academic [https://academic.oup.com/jsm/article/22/Supplement_4/qdaf320.209/8374966?utm_source=chatgpt.com&login=false]  Spanish fly [https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/111877]  Aphrodisiacs in the global history of medical thought | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-global-history/article/aphrodisiacs-in-the-global-history-of-medical-thought/83534F01F85157DB0C74F74986522BF9?utm_source=chatgpt.com]  Albert Ellis and Albert Abarbanel in volume 1 of their Encyclopaedia of Sexual Behaviour [https://books.google.co.in/books?id=1SOLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=], Betwixt The Sheets: The Strangest Tudor & Stuart Aphrodisiacs [https://www.tapesearch.com/episode/the-strangest-tudor-stuart-aphrodisiacs/QgsWgHM3Tbw6GnPVsWpPag]

Ep #3: Benjamin Franklin: MILF Hunter

French women loved him, Loyalists feared him, and his devoted wife simply tolerated him. Join us as we delve into the most scandalous lore of Benjamin Franklin, one of America's most influential Founding Fathers and a MILF hunter who loved his designated naked time. SOURCES Benjamin Franklin Historical Society [http://www.benjamin-franklin-history.org/early-life/] Library of Congress [https://www.loc.gov/collections/benjamin-franklin-papers/articles-and-essays/timeline/?utm_source=chatgpt.com] HistoryOasis.com [https://www.historyoasis.com/post/benjamin-franklin-the-womanizer] Massachusetts Historical Society [https://www.masshist.org/online/silence_dogood/essay.php?entry_id=203] History News Network [https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-women-in-ben-franklins-life-tell-a-fuller-stor#:~:text=In%20his%20Autobiography%2C%20he%20confessed%20that%20as%20a,inconvenience%2C%20besides%20a%20continual%20risk%20to%20my%20health.%E2%80%9D] FranklinPapers.org [https://franklinpapers.org/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=27&page=332b] A Letter to a Royal Academy - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Letter_to_a_Royal_Academy] PBS - Ken Burns Documentary [https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/benjamin-franklin/] Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/eighteenthcentur0005unse_n8w7/page/n7/mode/2up]

Halloween Minisode - Mary Shelley's Virginity Story

On this dark and hallowed night we are joined by Maeve's best friend, Autumn, to drink copious amounts of wine and talk about Mary Shelley, the goth girlfriend everybody wants but nobody deserves. This Halloween bonus episode boasts tales of cemetery romps, opium benders, and ex-lover's hearts wrapped in poetry and shoved in a desk.

Ep #2: Lord Byron, The Bad Boy Blueprint

In this month's episode, we recount the salacious details of the life of Lord Byron, the bad boy blueprint of the literary world. Sources: "The Truant of His Age" by Christopher Hitchens, Los Angeles Times The Rest is History Podcast Lord Byron Series English-Heritage.org.uk Britannica Drew University Library Special Collections Penguin UK - Ghost stories, opium and rain: the doomed holiday that inspired Shelley’s Frankenstein