It’s an illegal workforce that’s an internet connection and a phone call away. The world’s oldest profession has moved online and indoors. Sex For Sale: American Escort, Mariana van Zeller, National Geographic 2018
Prostitution is illegal for most of the United States. But if you look online, countless websites appear to sell sex. ibid.
Every weekend hundreds of escorts work the hotels and casinos along the Las Vegas strip. ibid.
The reawakened Gregor: Let’s make animalistic freaky sex right now.
Nadja: But somebody else needs me in a much less erotic way. But you know it is what it is. What We Do in the Shadows s1e5: Animal Control, BBC 2019
Since the Baron arrived things have been very stressful. ibid.
In Europe a couple of centuries ago the Baron was a fun guy and we got up to some very messy business together. ibid. Laszlo
I want a night on the town. ibid. Baron
350 years ago a fictional man was born on paper: the name Don Juan was scratched on a manuscript by a Spanish monk and the legend of a great lover was born. 100 years later a Venetian named Casanova wrote 6 volumes on his life and established himself as a legendary lover as well … Were they great lovers or merely fools? In Search of s5e17 … The Great Lovers, History 1981
The 20th century was putting the sex into romance. Lucy Worsley, A Very British Romance III, BBC 2015
‘A lot of the nudity asked of me was not in the contract.’ Storyville: Sex on Screen, actor, BBC 2023
‘This idea of, Oh I’m less of a true actor if I do nudity, as if it’s a negative thing but who decided that?’ ibid.
‘Women have to fight for ownership of their own body.’ ibid.
Sex: The great common denominator that unites us … How far do we really understand it. Sex: A Bonkers History I: The Ancients, History 2023
Our first stop in the ancient world takes us back to Sparta in Greece where ideas about sex and what was seductive seems a far cry from our modern tastes. ibid.
For Cleopatra every sexual relationship was about gaining a strategic advantage. ibid.
Bonk like an Egyptian. ibid.
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian text written nearly 2,000 years ago. ibid.
The Affairs of Messalina: Passing judgment on the very woman that put the O in those orgies. ibid.
Women in Rome did have some sexual agency. ibid.
Henry VIII was also something of a sex machine. Sex: A Bonkers History II: The Tudors
Pepys’ diaries are more than the writings of a horny dignitary. They depict a country emerging form the darkness of Puritanism and the English civil war. Those years had been grim. ibid.
Almost as old as sex itself is the battle to control it. Sex: A Bonkers History III: The Georgians
The Georgians: fraught with rules and restrictions especially before marriage. ibid.
Throughout the Georgian era sex clubs were cropping up all over the country. ibid.
The Victorians wrote the book on S&M while being publicly prudish and preachy. Sex: A Bonkers History IV: The Victorians
The Victorian era was one of the kinkiest in our whole timeline. ibid.
One tiny innovation in the Sixties changed sex for ever … because of this little baby, the Pill … In 1961 it hit the UK market. Sex: A Bonkers History V: Twentieth Century
British society’s attitude towards sex is changing. BDSM is now a booming multi-billion-pound business that’s growing year on year. Laura Whitmore Investigates: Rough Sex, ITV 2024
Does harmless fun have a dark side? ibid.
So many instances of sexual violence go unreported. ibid.