Mark Fennell
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177 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Mark Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're also banking on next generations becoming more progressive and less shameful, though, as well.
Now, it's tempting to think of sexual liberation and self-pleasure as quite a modern thing, but really, when you stop and think about it for a second, of course people have been doing this forever.
But as times change, so do societies and beliefs and values and morals.
Now, masturbation, believe it or not, for a long time was seen as a sin.
And in 18th century Britain, for example, self-pleasure became public enemy number one because of something so simple and so unassuming.
A piece of paper.
Yeah.
So a lot of that focuses in on the effects of masturbation for men, but I think one of the reasons I really want to talk to you is that history of masturbation for women, which is kind of where a lot of these objects have come into the story.
The female orgasm, how is it talked about in that period?
Well, it's also just like this, that idea still permeates the world.
Like there's, I think there was an American politician, even a few years ago that invoked a version of that.
Yeah?
That's it.
Which is basically a filtered version of the same thing, that idea that stretches back.
Well, let's talk about that because I think a lot of people listening to this will probably have connected the idea of hysteria, right?
Which is kind of very well known, but has a lot of misconceptions around it.
So I guess walk us through what the concept was and whether or not it, what's real about it and what's not.
No.
So what do you reckon it was then?
What was it made up?
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