Joel Warner
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443 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Apr
Joel Warner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's publish that.
Well, here's the thing.
I mean, this is how I became interested was I was not interested in Saad.
Not really interested in his writing.
I was interested in this particular bit of writing because basically...
He wrote this on this, what probably looks like a roll of toilet paper, where he made this 40 foot long scroll by gluing pages end to end.
And he wrote in minuscule writing on both sides of this thing and would roll it up and hit it and hide it in the stones of his cell.
So what ended up happening was this is one of these kind of fantastical objects, right?
That ends up kind of going on one of these incredible journeys all over Europe, where it was found by a worker after the fall of the Bastille, ended up changing hands, being obsession of these Victorian erotica collectors.
It eventually fell into the hands of this sex researcher in Berlin in the 1930s.
Wow.
And he published the first kind of abridged version of it, basically framing it as a sex manual to show the diversity.
Yeah.
Yes.
It was framed as scientific.
It was this guy named Ivan Blok.
Who was a colleague of Hirschfeld's.
Who was a main colleague.
And in some ways, Bloch helped inspire Hirschfeld.
And in many ways, in this book, actually helped to transform Bloch's assumptions because for a long time, kind of Bloch saw homosexuality as a disease, as many people did at the time.
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