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Kate Lister is a lecturer at Leeds Trinity University, where she researches the history of sexuality and curates the online research project Whores of Yore. Kate is also a columnist for iNews, Vice, and the Wellcome Trust where she writes about the history of sex. Kate won a Sexual Freedom Award for Publicist of the Year in 2017.

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The Service by Frankie Miren, Review

The history of sex work is largely one of missing voices. Given how much has been said, and continues to be said, on the subject, this seems something of a paradox. As does the fact that, historically at least, the people who have been able to say the least about the selling of sex are the sex workers themselves. The voices of lawmakers, pornographers, moralists, and academics have long drowned o Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 28, 2021 07:03

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Kate Lister’s books

Average rating: 4.16 · 9,126 ratings · 1,335 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Curious History of Sex 4.16 avg rating — 8,199 ratings — published 2020 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale 4.18 avg rating — 812 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mistresses with Jameela Jamil & Dr Kate Lister by Jameela Jamil, Kate Lister, Katie Kennedy (Narrator) 4.23 avg rating — 115 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you shake any book by Sade, a cunt will fall out; Sade is a cunt piñata.”
― Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

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“But Kellogg was obsessed with ‘diddling’ (1938), and the cornflake was designed to suppress lust and cure serial masturbators. Kellogg and his brother William Kellogg designed bland foods to treat the patients at their sanatorium.”
― Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

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“While we are on the subject of cunt monikers, in his study of humorous names, Russell Ash found a whole family of Cunts living in England in the nineteenth century: Fanny Cunt (born 1839), also her son, Richard ‘Dick’ Cunt, and her daughters, Ella Cunt and Violet Cunt.”
― Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

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