#48 Let's Get Personal

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Content Warnings: Discussions of sex workers and sex work, colonialism, racism, religious persecution, sexually transmitted diseases, virginity, serial killer Belle Gunness, miscarriage, murderWhat do pilgrims, Benjamin Franklin, and Tinder have to do with one another? Don't take it personally if you don't know; you'll just have to listen to this episode!Questions/Comments/Concerns? Email us at [email protected]. (mailto:[email protected])Raging Romantics Book List! (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eGAQ2LRg-s2jkB79Ux7lrNQJea8OGMoANaLxsOakIpo/edit?usp=sharing)Sources:* Matrimony Inc. by Francesca Beauman* "Marriage, a History" (Psychology Today, 2005) (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200505/marriage-history)* "How Dating Has Changed Through History" (Lane, 2021) (https://www.thelist.com/162252/how-dating-has-changed-through-history/#:~:text=During%20the%201600s%2C%20dating%20and%20marriage%20were%20all,wasn%27t%20especially%20important%20to%20people%20during%20this%20time.)* "10 Fascinating Facts About the Evolution of Dating and Courtship" (Brown, 2016) (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79140/10-fascinating-facts-about-evolution-dating-and-courtship)Books we mention:* Amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters* Dances with Wolves by Michael Blakes* The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones* Heart and Hand by Rebel Carter* Alien's Mail-Order Bride by Ruby Dixon* Claimed by the Mountain Man by Frankie Love* Bridge Kingdom by Danielle Jensen* His Human Nanny by Michelle Mills* Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks* Bride Test by Helen Hoang* Bittersweet Bride by Vanessa Riley* Sunset Embrace by Sandra Brown* Only Mine by Elizabeth Lowell* Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare* When the Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare* The Billionaire's Wake Up Call Girl by Annika Martin*Reconstruction, not Reformation @41:00

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