Profs & Pints DC: Medieval Sex

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Medieval Sex,” a look at the reality of medieval sex and sexuality through the lens of comic literature, satire, and obscenity, with Larissa “Kat” Tracy, professor of medieval literature and author of several books on the Middle Ages.

Back at Penn Social by popular demand: A fascinating, rollicking look at how medieval people navigated sex in their time.

The speaker, Professor Kat Tracy, has appeared on Wondrium’s series Sex in the Middle Ages and the History Channel’s Dark Marvels, and has previously given excellent talks in town on medieval torture, the Green Knight legend, and the pagan origins of late winter holidays.

She'll discuss how the sex lives of medieval people were framed by religious edicts and secular laws, how they skirted those restrictions, and found outlets in sexual humor and displays.

Medieval discussions of sex were most common in humorous literature that used satire,…