History’s favourite sex toys

*CONTENT WARNING* This episode explores mature themes such as sex and masturbation.

When the wooden object was unearthed, the archaeologists were stumped. What was this thing? It looked like a club and was found among bits of cloth so they thought it was a darning tool.

But it was another kind of tool. One that would raise eyebrows and cause some people to blush.

Sex historian Dr Kate Lister (Flick: The Story of Female Pleasure) charts the history of female pleasure with Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole), unearthing sex toys from archaeological digs to nunneries.

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