Dr Eleanor Janega

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1,236 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Aug

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Medieval Europe's Biggest Sex Scandal · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

what your penis tells you to do.

It shouldn't be that you're in this place because you have been castrated so you no longer have these urges.

You're not overcoming a damn thing.

Absolutely, because there is so much importance placed on men's genitalia.

On masculinity.

And a conception of virility and a conception of... Even for medieval people, in theory, some kind of level of stoicism is implied by this.

So, you know, the...

Ideal man is a member of the church who's overcome sexual urges and they only kind of experience this masculine fortitude and logic which makes them able to resist sexual urges.

So in this case, he's not overcoming anything, right?

Like he's just been placed in this particular thing.

So he's kind of like a woman, right?

So you can't put him in front of students any longer because of this very particular humiliation.

So it's not just about, you know, the fact that you can't possibly be a danger anymore.

But it's like this is this is a ritual humiliation.

Well, you might be castrated in situations like this.

It is something that would be quite common if you are a member of the nobility and you attack or you have sex with another member of the nobility.

And basically, if you get girls in trouble like this, they will castrate you because the thing that that also stops you from doing is making another marriage.

So it's odd for it to happen for a member of the clergy because ordinarily being a part of the church that would protect you, but also being a part of the church, usually you don't do this.

Or if you do it, you know, there's lots of members of the clergy who are having sex with women, but it's not like women who are this high up.

and the scale, right?

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