The Woman Who Had Sex With Ghosts
About this episode
The episode discusses Ida Craddock, a pioneering sex educator who claimed to be married to a ghost and fought against censorship in early 20th century America.
Ida Craddock is a name that should be much, much better known. She was a maverick sex educator who fought violent censorship in turn of the century America. She also loudly announced to the world that she was married to a ghost and that their sex life was great, thank you very much. Dr Kate Lister tells this story taken from her new book Flick: The Story of Female Pleasure , available everywhere. Edited by Hannah Feodorov. Senior Producer is Freddy Chick. Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe . You can take part in our listener survey here . All music from Epidemic Sounds. Voting is now open for the Listener's Choice Award at this year's Podcast Awards. Click here to place your vote! Thank you! https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Guest: Dr Kate Lister
Topics covered
- sex education
- censorship
- ghosts
- female pleasure
- turn of the century
- true crime
Keywords
- Ida Craddock
- ghost marriage
- sex educator
- censorship
- female pleasure
- Dr Kate Lister
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: History Hit
Books & works: Flick: The Story of Female Pleasure
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