LHMP

Submissions are now closed for the 2022 podcast fiction series. Thank you to everyone who entrusted us with your stories. Reading and making choices should happen within the next week. So excited to see what the possibilities are! (I never read submissions as they come in because I worry that it might bias my opinions.)

This article tackles an interesting contradiction in Roman sexual discourse--or perhaps in scholarly discourse around Roman sexuality: how do you integrate the theoretical concepts of "active" and "passive" within sexual activity with the language used to talk about those acts and the people who engage in them? I tend to think that apparent contradictions--rather than needing to be resolved via an additional layer of theory--sometimes simply illustrate the contradictory nature of life and society.

An interesting article that tackles the association of Sappho, Lesbos, and female homosexuality from a different angle.

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 225 - A History of Lesbian Sex in Pornography - transcript

(Originally aired 2022/03/19 - listen here)