Episode 25 - Sex and Shakespeare

<p>Looking at sex in Shakespeare’s time and works reveals a similar world stuck between two truths: the first that sex was always a many-splendoured, or at least multifaceted, thing; and the second that despite the crushing weight of legal, cultural, and religious dictates, in trying to police sex, Elizabethans wound up having a fairly free discourse on the subject.</p> <p>Unfortunately for modern readers, that discourse is still much more obscure than our modern, ultra-liberal discussion of everything from kinks to polyamory; such talk, while still there in Elizabethan works, is far more layered and lacks a lot of the diction we take for granted...</p> <p>Join The Bicks for a randy discussion about Shakespeare between the sheets!</p> <p>Notes:</p> <ul><li><a href='https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/apr/24/shakespeare-sex-love-stanley-wells'>Stanley Wells' Shakespeare, Sex & Love</a></li> <li><a href='https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode'>Hays Code</a></li> <li><a href='https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-use-of-the-word-nunnery-to-mean-brothel-1593'>Nunnery = whorehouse?</a> <ul><li>Some people insist <a href='https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/29277/theater/thought-of-the-day-whorehouse-nunneries-and-vagina-nothings'>this is not the case</a> -- we'll let you be the judge!</li> <li><a href='http://www.craftyscreenwriting.com/ophelia.html'>Ophelia pregnant?!</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwAajOtfNT8'>Two bros...chillin in a hot tub</a>... because Vine will never die.</li> <li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBjsFAyiwA'>Monty Python - The Meaning of Life condom skit</a></li> <li>Philip Larkin, <a href='https://www.wussu.com/poems/plam.htm'>"Annus Mirabilis"</a> <ul><li><a href='https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/27/profumo-affair-sex-1963'>"Sex began 50 years ago, Larkin said. How has the Earth moved since 1963?"</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Ancient Bickerings:</p> <p>In lieu of a proper bic