Sex Wasn’t Always Shameful: So What Changed? with Dr. Sameena Rahman

Podcast: Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones · Dr. Sameena Rahman

Opublikowano: 2026-10-24

If you haven’t tuned in recently or this is your first time listening, I launched my book and have been on tour promoting it. One of the chapters getting the most engagement is Chapter 3, Sex and Culture for Brown Girls, so in this solo episode I read a portion of it. It looks at how sex was viewed in South Asia and other parts of the world before colonial rule, when sexual pleasure was written about openly in religious texts, medical books, and art, and how British colonial rule and Victorian ideals are part of that story. I al...