It was such a delight to chat with someone I have fangirled over for years, the one and only sex historian Dr. Kate Lister!

In this episode we covered everything from our ADHD diagnoses and how we live with it, working in (and recovering from) academia, spotting predators in tantra, why studying sex is tricky, gay subcultures, and why we should all keep a sex diary and time capsule for future historians to study. Warning, we laugh a lot and say many inappropriate things.

Treat yourself to this chat with me and the woman who calls herself “The Forrest Gump of Academia”.

CW: Contains mentions of SA a few times.

In this episode we cover:

• Her ADHD diagnosis story and refusing to accept it

  
  



• Being in spaces that affirm ADHD

  
  



• Leaving ADHD communities and exacerbating symptoms

  
  



• The role of ADHD doing her work-why researching sex helps with hyperfocus

  
  



• Recovering from academia

  
  



• ADHD and sex, how it affects her

  
  



• Using sex as a dopamine hit

  
  

• Myths about ADHD and sex

  
  



• Being highly sensory

  
  



• My experience of tantric exercises

  
  



• Spotting tantra predators and red flags

  
  

• How we define sex?

  
  



• King James and what being gay meant historically

  
  



• The Bible and clobber verses

  
  



• Maybe not giving a BJ's to King James 

  
  



• When we eroticize the past

  
  



• Sexual fantasies

  
  

• Keeping a sex diary for history and making a sex time capsule

  
  

Contact Kate here:

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