To set us up for our horny close reading of Jane Austen we’re getting some historical context, and welcoming historian Dr Robyn Atcheson as our first guest to Sploosham Abbey. How were people doing sex in Georgian Britain? What would Jane Austen have known about it? And what rules should we set when thinking about her characters getting it on?

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