Hello and welcome to a special winter episode of Badgays.

I'm here and I'm here with Ben.

Hey, Merry Christmas.

We've had a really busy year with a book, promoting it, touring, doing live events.

And so we thought we'd drop a sort of special winter Christmas episodes.

The episode was recorded at Foyles Books this summer on our book tour with the one and only Sean Faye, and it's about the Victorian sex worker and pornographer Jack Saul.

So this is a great episode to listen to today on full blast over the big speakers so that while you're all doing the washing up,

Aunt Sue can hear stories about masturbating into an open fire and

grandma can join in a good bit of old-fashioned delicious fringing up the bum. Was that the phrase?

I think it was a reach-around, a frigging reach-around while being done up the bum, yeah.

Okay, there we go. All right. Anyway, all very grandma-friendly.

I would say it's not safe for work or family, but it depends what your work is and what your family are like, I suppose.

Yeah, it should be fun if you're with family and it's complicated or alone and it's complicated or with family and it's great or alone and it's great.

As always in the show notes, we're going to throw in some references that we use to research the episode.

Apologies.

The chapter should also serve as a preview for those of you who do not yet have a copy of our book, Badgays Homosexual History,

which is available at badgayspod.com slash book and which will be released this summer in paperback,

which should be a more affordable and lighter weight way to get our words into your life.

Yeah, and thank you to everyone at Foyles and to Sean, who reads so beautifully,

so many extracts of the piece, and especially the audience who came

along and asked such interesting questions and it was a really great evening.

That was the best part about this year was getting to hang out together and meet all of you

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