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Join us for a deep dive into queer history in ancient Greece and Rome. This week, we focus on transgender men and women. It’s a common belief that being trans is [...Read More...]

We’re calling this series gender rebels of the ancient world—because how could we do a season about sex and sex magic without talking about the magical provenance of [...Read More...]

She’s the Tenth Muse, Western literature’s first lyric poet, and a woman who openly, unabashedly loved women and wrote about it–in an extremely patriarchal [...Read More...]

What can we learn about the lives of women in the ancient world–both religious and secular–when we delve into mythology? In this episode, we talk to Jennifer [...Read More...]

Janus is the two-faced god of the Roman pantheon. He was the god of beginnings and endings, of dual natures, of passageways and passage through time. He’s the god of [...Read More...]

This year, we decided that the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a mythological foray into one of the most famous characters of the season: The Krampus. And some [...Read More...]

How did sex workers in ancient Greece and Rome manage their periods? What were the most popular fashions for pubic hair? What underwear was everyone wearing? And how did sex [...Read More...]

Despite inspiring desire in people of all genders, Aphrodite is often depicted as a cisgender woman. But not always. Ancient writers tell us of mystery cults that worshipped [...Read More...]

Goddess of sex workers, Our Lady of the Castration Foam, the walking embodiment of orgasm herself—Aphrodite was one of the most powerful goddesses in the Olympian pantheon. [...Read More...]

If you know anything about Aphrodite, then you know she is the ancient Greek goddess primarily associated with love, beauty, sex, reproduction, and passion. She was also the [...Read More...]