The History of Gay Sex Stuart

On today's episode my colleague and friend Mat joins us to ask all of my listeners' questions about the podcast, me, homosexuality and the history of gay sex.  

In this episode Quentin returns to discuss the Newport Sex Scandal where the US Navy controversially investigated gay sex in the military. We then discuss some medieval gay romances involving the former king of England James the first! 

In this episode we break down the psychology of who tops and who bottoms during sex with Jamie and Austin from Queers In Your Ears podcast! We go over the History of Gay Sex poll I conducted back in December. We also cover a study by NIH and the Archives of Sexual Behavior on predicting who takes what sexual position in the bedroom.

Today Stuart covers the recent film Benedetta with friend and fellow podcaster Quentin from "Bridge and Tunnel" and "Bell Book and Scandal" podcasts. The film Benedetta explores the life of Benedetta Carlini who is considered one of the first recorded historical examples of female homosexuality in the West. Learn more as we untangle the real life figure from the one portrayed in the film.

The Sambia tribe of Papua New Guinea practiced a ritualized form of homosexuality as a male rite of passage. Except these rituals heavily surrounded one act: semen ingestion.  The tribe believed that puberty was impossible unless boys started consuming semen at a young age and that mothers could not gestate a child without semen ingestion as well. We cover all of this and more with guest host Mike for this episode!

It seems like everything these days is all about data. We live in a "data age" like never before. But how has data influenced our understanding of homosexuality? Not only have we come to better understand human sexuality but Alfred Kinsey's data on homosexuality in the 1940s was consequential to the gay rights movement in the western world. Learn more about the man himself and his findings that forever changed how we define truly normative human sexual expression.