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European colonialism didn’t just extract gold, spices, and land from colonized peoples — it also created and exploited systems of sexual commerce that were explicitly organized around race. This episode examines how empire built racialized sex economies across Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
A History of Sex as a Business 04 | Courtesans, Kings, and the Politics of Pleasure
In Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman Empire, certain women leveraged beauty, intelligence, and proximity to power into remarkable — if precarious — social positions. This episode explores the cortigiana onesta, the imperial harem, and the Japanese geisha as case studies in how women navigated systems that simultaneously celebrated and constrained them.
A History of Sex as a Business 03 | The Middle Ages: God, Sin, and Regulation
The medieval Church condemned commercial sex as mortal sin — and then many of the same institutions that preached that message either tolerated or directly profited from licensed brothels. This episode explores the extraordinary contradiction at the heart of medieval sexuality and the economic logic that drove it.
A History of Sex as a Business 02 | Greece, Rome, and the Architecture of Desire
From the intellectual companionship of Athenian hetaerae to the licensed brothels of imperial Rome, this episode examines how two of history’s most influential civilizations built elaborate social and legal structures around the commodification of sex — and who paid the price.
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Contemporary means sharing the same time. But it carries something more interesting than a date stamp. In this episode, we explore what it means to be a person of your moment — and what you owe to the time you’re living in.