Episode Notes

Our guest this week is Mollie Clarke, webmistress of the Third Sex Reading Group and current PhD student at the University of Roehampton. Mollie is currently working on her thesis titled 'Female Cross-Dressing, Genre, and Popular Literary Forms from 1830-1900'. In this episode we discuss why we always think of the Victorians as tightlaced, prudish, asexual beings when in fact they were hella kinky. We learn all about the salacious secret life of George Augustus Sala who when he wasn't publishing essays, articles and popular fiction was getting kinky with whips and corsets. We also debate the merits of the nip slip as praxis, why cross-dressing is better than crossfit. We also learn a lot about a show girl named Lola.

If you fancy a queer geek out with Mollie and her menagerie of popular fiction porno lovers then you can join the Third Sex Reading Group here: https://victorianpopularfiction.org/third-sex-reading-group/ follow them on twitter here @VPFA1 and follow Mollie here @molclarke