#48 Let's Get Personal

<p>Content Warnings: Discussions of sex workers and sex work, colonialism, racism, religious persecution, sexually transmitted diseases, virginity, serial killer Belle Gunness, miscarriage, murder</p><p></p><p>What 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!</p><p>Questions/Comments/Concerns? <a href="mailto:ragingromantics@nopl.org">Email us at Ragingromantics@nopl.org.</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eGAQ2LRg-s2jkB79Ux7lrNQJea8OGMoANaLxsOakIpo/edit?usp=sharing">Raging Romantics Book List!</a></p><p></p><p>Sources:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Matrimony-Inc-Personal-Swiping-America-ebook/dp/B085CN59Q1/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Matrimony+inc&amp;link_code=qs&amp;qid=1660673607&amp;sr=8-1">Matrimony Inc. by Francesca Beauman</a></li><li><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200505/marriage-history">"Marriage, a History" (Psychology Today, 2005)</a></li><li><a href="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.">"How Dating Has Changed Through History" (Lane, 2021)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79140/10-fascinating-facts-about-evolution-dating-and-courtship">"10 Fascinating Facts About the Evolution of Dating and Courtship" (Brown, 2016)</a></li></ul><p>Books we mention:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.fantasticfiction.com/p/elizabeth-peters/amelia-peabody/">Amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters</a></li><li><a href="https://catalog.onlib.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=43.1033.0.0.6&amp;pos=3&amp;cn=411294">Dances with Wolves by Michael Blakes</a></li><li><a href="https://catalog.onlib.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=43.1033.0.0.6&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=2439388">The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones</a></li><li><a href="https://www.fantasticfictio