Sex lives of the Anglo-Saxons
We know more than you might imagine about how people in early medieval England thought about, and had, sex – Dr Christopher Monk explains what we can say about the sex lives of the Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons clearly had sex. But how did they think about sex? And what were their sex lives actually like? Dr Christopher Monk is an expert in the subject, and in this bonus episode – only for HistoryExtra Plus subscribers – he explains to David Musgrove what the historical sources reveal about Anglo-Saxon attitudes to sex, and how the church tried to control sexual activity.
Read more on this subject in our new feature, “I counted the penises in the Bayeux Tapestry and I have no regrets”: what one Oxford professor found when he studied the rudest bits of the embroidery
Authors
David Musgrove is content director of the HistoryExtra.com website and podcast, plus its sister print magazines BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. He has a PhD in medieval landscape archaeology and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.