Its sexual revolution
You may be familiar with the seducers Casanova and James Boswell but a new book explains why the forgotten rake, William Hickey, may be a more appealing character.
Author Julie Peakman talks to Jenni about the eighteenth century's infamous courtesans, libertines and cross dressers.
Julie Peakman, Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century, published by Atlantic Books
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