For this first edition of Your Sexual History, I thought it would be fitting to write about the world’s most famous redheaded sex worker: Hürrem Sultan, a member of Suleiman the Magnificent’s harem who, defying hundreds of years of tradition, became his sole sexual partner and then his wife. Her move from slave to sultana…
I was encouraged to start this blog in order to show off my personality and interests. As someone who’s spent most of her life writing about the arts, I thought it might be fun to expand my repertoire to include a more recent passion: history. I’m not sure when history by itself really grabbed me,…