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"The Real Sex Lives of Historical Queens"
via stultiloquentia, Anna Silman @annaesilman interviews an expert on the history of sexuality about the sex scenes in recent movies about Queen Anne and Mary, Queen of Scots.

In pre-modern society people lived in a much more complex web of kinship with each other. It was really modernity that reduced all forms of chosen kinship to marriage. It used to be just one form among many, and there was absolutely no sense that once you were married that your other intimate relationships, including sexual relationships, would end.