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Radio 4,10 Dec 2008,30 mins

Cocaine Girls in the West End - Orgasm

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Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works. Was the Imperial era the result of repressed sexuality? A new book claims that forbidden desires lie behind the West's great cultural output. Laurie talks to Robert Muchembled, author of Orgasm and the West, and historian Joanna Bourke.

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