"Love was the foundation of everything for Frida. This bisexuality, this eroticism was fundamental to her character."
She’s on your ex-girlfriend’s tote bag, your niece’s notebook, and probably a few questionable dorm-room tapestries.
But behind the unibrow is a Frida Kahlo you don’t know: a bisexual, communist, pain-embracing rascal who painted from her gut and fucked whomstsoever she pleased.
This week, we’re peeling back the kitsch to get at the real Frida, with filmmaker Carla Gutierrez, director of the fabulous new documentary, Frida (now streaming on Prime).
We discuss:
So: grab your eyeliner and fill in that unibrow you've been growing out, because it's time to get freaky with Frida.
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Written and hosted by Bash.
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
Powdered wigs. Satin breeches. Candlelit salons.
And of course: sodomy.
This week we’re swanning back into Georgian England (1714–1837), a century of empire, cholera, imperialism, and very flouncy coats – but also one of the gayest domestic revolutions in history.
With special guest Dr. Anthony Delaney (author of Queer Georgians, out today!), we explore the LGBTQIA+ pioneers who didn’t just hook up in parks or "molly houses," but built full-fledged homes, lives, and legacies together.
Inside this episode:
🍸 Molly Houses — the proto-gay bars of London, where effeminate “mollies” cultivated community (and each other's C*CKS)
👬 An Odd Couple of "Cotqueans" — Lord John “Jack” Hervey and Stephen Fox: two aristocrats who went on a very gay Grand Tour of Europe, wrote love letters to one anotherwith phrases like “I look upon you as my dwelling,” and redecorated their way into history
👒 The Ladies of Llangollen — Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, two cottagecore lesbians who fled Ireland with a dog named Frisk and set up their gothic sapphic country paradise in Wales
🏠 Queer Domesticity — how 18th-century queers literally invented the idea of “home," defying societal expectations through the radical power of hot sex and interior design.
Because sometimes being gay isn’t just about who you shag—it’s about how nice your fucking house is.
🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you pod. Perruque and East India Company shares sold separately.
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Written and hosted by Bash.
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
The Dark Ages: Rome has fallen, the Church won't shut the fuck up, there's a killer plague for every season, and everyone else is dying of BOREDOM.
Right? WRONG.
Western Europe may have been a shitshow for much of what we ridiculously call the "Dark Ages," but the rest of the world had its act together.
Specifically: Baghdad around the 800s AD. At the height of the Golden Age of Islam. They had libraries, they had mathematics, and...they had lesbian sex scientists.
This week we’re taking a tantalizing dip into the Golden Age of Islam to uncover a treasure trove archive of lesbionic women from medieval Arabia.
Muslim philosophers and physicians had actual words for lesbians (or lesbian-like women), entire books about famous lesbian couples, and specific manuals that explained how to vigorously rub one out with your beloved.
From labia gas to celery-and-rocket shakes, the science was...shaky, at best. But the spirit of inquiry was strong, and the genuine respect for lesbian love profound.
Tune in to explore:
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Written and hosted by Bash.
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
Welcome to The Hanky Code, aka Grindr for Boomers.
Following on from our cruise through history last week, we've delved deeper into the notorious handkerchief code.
The code was a form of flagging, which used different coloured bandanas to signal sexual / kink preferences.
In this bonus Quickie episode, Bash unpacks the extremely colourful history of flagging—from gay Gold Rush cowboys to scrappy leather entrepreneurs in San Francisco.
Along the way, we learn:
Spoiler alert: you can't.
The hanky code wasn’t just about getting off—it was about queer ingenuity, solidarity, and desire in a hostile world.
Today it may be more relic than reality, but it still reminds us of the brilliant, horny creativity of our queer elders.
We'll be back on September 4 with our next full episode on the history of Queer Georgian homemakers. So stay tuned!
Till then, enjoy this bonus episode and get ready for some exciting announcements from us when we all go back to school...
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Written and hosted by Bash.
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
You know the feeling: when you lock eyes and the look lingers just a little too long. His hand brushes over his fly. And boom! A small smile confirms it:
You're about to be cruising, my king!
And all it took was a public park, centuries of sexual shame, and a little bit of courage to get you there...
Now it's no surprise that the elegant and much-envied act of Fucking in Public has been around for thousands of years.
But how did the "radical pastime" of modern-day cruising develop? Why did men start having sex with men in public parks and bathrooms? And why, in an allegedly sexually liberated world, do we still cruise today?
Join Bash and his guest this week, Professor Alex Espinoza, as they chart over 4,000 years of men getting it off with men. From the Roman bathhouse to Paris' first urban parks, this is a steamy, rushed romp through history designed to be enjoyed from your very own public bathroom stall.
You're welcome.
We will cover:
🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you pod. Grindr Unlimited subscription sold separately.
📚 Grab a copy of Alex's book Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime on Bookshop.org (NEVER Amazon!)
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Written and hosted by Bash.
Guest: Alex Espinoza.
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
He fiddled while Rome burned. He married two men. He may even have kicked his pregnant wife to death.
But he ALSO invented animal pelt kink, so could he have been THAT BAD?!
This week, Bash is joined by classicist and queer historian, Professor Andrew Lear, to discuss the scandalous, salacious, and slanderous life of Emperor Nero — Ancient Rome’s most notorious bisexual bad boy.
From castrating (and marrying) his wife’s male doppelgänger to "mauling" strangers’ crotches in animal pelts, the stories about Nero are a masterclass in ancient PR. But why did so many historians vilify Nero in this intensely OTT way?
Join us as we explore the answer to this question and many more, such as:
Along the way, we’ll learn why the real scandal for the raunchy Romans wasn’t so much Nero’s queer behaviour, but his dangerous subversion of class and gender hierarchy.
Plus: Justice For Roman Bottoms (my new charity), ancient pegging theories, and a verdict on the real question on everyone’s lips for the past two thousand years:
Was Nero a monster… or the "Elvis Presley Emperor" of the 1st century AD?
🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you pod. Roman villa sold separately.
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Episode Credits
Written and hosted by Bash.
Guest: Andrew Lear.
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
🏴☠️ Before there was BRAT, there were Butt Pirates. 🏴☠️
This week we're hoisting our slutty sails – that's what I call my underpants – to plunder the treacherous homosexual deep, with pirate historian and author Dr. Rebecca Simon (Pirate Queens; The Pirate’s Code) to answer the age-old question:
Why are men on a ship always kinda gay?
First of all, when we say "pirate," we mean the real 17th- and 18th-century swashbucklers who sailed the high seas. This is not Johnny Depp in eyeliner, but actual rum-soaked, textile-stealing anarcho-queers of the Caribbean.
Join us as we dive into the Golden Age of Piracy (c.1650–1730), and reveal the surprising egalitarianism of pirate society (it was pretty democratic and they had health insurance!) and its complex manifestations of queer desire — from situational sodomy to full-on civil unions (bonjour, matelotage 👬).
We also discuss:
🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you pod. Parrot and peg leg sold separately.
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Episode Credits
Written and hosted by Bash.
Guest: Rebecca Simon.
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
Leonardo da Vinci? More like Leonardo da Fist Me.
We've all heard of the man behind the Mona Lisa. But did you know he was also one of Florence's sodomitical sweethearts?
In this episode, we pull back the vajazzled curtain on Leonardo da Vinci to reveal a homo neither tormented nor repressed, suffering dramatically for his art, but a messy, charismatic, and brilliant dilettante obsessed with the world.
More than anything, Leonardo cared about curiosity. He was fascinated more by the world than his paychecks, which got him into trouble more often than his penchant for very handsome twinks – ahem, sorry, apprentices.*
Join Bash and Renaissance historian Catherine Fletcher as they answer all the big questions:
Was Leonardo gay? Does it matter? Did it affect his fantastically innovative artwork? Did he think outside the box? And whose box did he eat?
We'll also give you a taste of what it was like to be horny, humping Leo in 1470s Florence, dashing across the Ponte Vecchio from paint job to blow job in an Italian minute (aka seventeen hours).
We'll cover:
If you’ve ever wanted a crash course in the gayest corners of the Italian Renaissance — or just an excuse to say “I heard you're into the Florentine vice” out loud — this is the episode for you.
🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you pod. Espresso and slutty breeches sold separately.
📚 Grab a copy of Catherine's book The Beauty and The Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance.
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Episode Credits
Written and hosted by Bash.
Guest: Catherine Fletcher.
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
Hot, rich, European, emotionally unavailable... sound familiar?
It's your Hinge profile all over again.
No, silly, it's vampires!
We are thrilled to welcome back folklorist and queer historian, Sacha Coward (author of Queer as Folklore) this week, as we trace the gloriously queer history of vampires—from ancient blood-sucking demons to modern brooding bisexuals.
Drape your capes and get ready to dive into:
Plus, how vampires got from Dracula terror to Twilight trysting, from cursed to cool, from monsters of the fringe to main characters with fangbanging stans.
As Sacha eloquently puts it:
"Vampire here. Vampire not going anywhere." (Direct quote)
🩸 Whether you’re a Lilith stan, a Buffy devotee, or just into emotionally repressed men with centuries of baggage–*raises hand violently*–this one’s for you.
🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your blood.
📚 And grab Sacha Coward’s book Queer as Folklore in sexy new paperback form—wherever fine, gay books are sold.
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Episode Credits
Written and hosted by Bash.
Guest: Sacha Coward.
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
Heads up! This is the episode where we solve gender.
Famously a "construct," it turns out Mx. Gender has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.
This podcast is only 70 minutes long so we're sticking to the last 5,000... but still. Not bad.
Join Bash and his honoured guests this week – Kit Heyam and Marty Davies – as they delve into the deep-cut history of gender, long before we had words like cis, trans, or nonbinary.
Kit Heyam is the author and historian behind Before We Were Trans, our guiding text for this episode. And Marty Davies is the founder of Trans+ History Week, an award-winning initiative now in its third year in the UK.
You might think – like Bash did for an embarrassingly long time – that gender and sex binaries have been the norm since the beginning of time.
Everyone has "male" and "female" right? Husband and wife, penetrator and pregnancy-haver. And that's that.
That's actually wrong. It's waaaay messier than that. As long as there have been humans, there has been what Kit Heyam calls "gender disruption."
This essentially experimental and creative approach to gender is in fact the norm – the one thing we find in almost every civilisation.
As if that weren't enough, here are some other essential things you'll learn about in this episode:
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Episode Credits:
Written, researched, and hosted by Bash. Special thanks to guests Kit Heyam and Marty Davies. Edited by Alex Toskas and Jamie Wareham.
A QueerAF and Historical Homos Production.
She was young, she was hot, and she was hated. But did she eat pu$$y?
Marie Antoinette was many things: a teen bride, a fashion icon, and according to Sofia Coppola, a big fan of The Strokes (I knew I liked this bitch!)
She's famous nowadays for losing her head, but did she also give it? And to whom / with what degree of relish?
In this week’s episode, Bash is joined by bestselling author and royal dirt-digger Eleanor Herman (Sex with Kings, Off With Her Head) to untangle the messy myth and misogyny surrounding France’s last queen.
From bedroom rumors to an actual revolution, we trace how Marie’s alleged lesbian love affairs and slutty reputation helped take down the French monarchy.
But how much of a labial libertine was dear old Marie?
Did she really let they/them eat cake, or did she prefer to have hers eaten?
And why did the revolutionaries care so much about who she was (or wasn’t) shtupping?
Get ready to cover:
👑 Marie’s teenage trauma: a 14-year-old Austrian girl dropped into horny French court politics
👑 Her disastrous marriage to Louis XVI, France’s least sexy locksmith
👑 Count Axel von Fersen: the hot Swede who became her baby daddy and was the only man in France who loved her
👑 The lesbian propaganda: 18th-century porn pamphlets and political smear campaigns that took Marie down
👑 Marie’s tragic downfall—and why she still makes us feel some kind of way about money, sex, fashion, and power
Plus: masquerade balls (aka cruising for cis-hets), Versailles orgies with her stepbrother, and the story of how Marie Antoinette's lesbian reputation became a 19th century pickup line for aspiring sapphics.
You can find out more about women in power by reading Eleanor Herman's books at her website.
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Episode Credits
Written and hosted by Bash.
Guest: Eleanor Herman
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
Once upon a time—aka the 90s, when I bravely decided to be born—gay marriage was the only thing we queers could talk about.
But why? Why were we so hell-bent on getting married? And how did the fight for marriage equality impact real people on the ground?
In this episode, Bash is joined by writer and memoirist Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told, to explore the long, messy, and horny history of gay marriage in America—from deportation threats in the 1950s to a rainbow-lit White House under Obama.
Along the way, we ask:
💍 Who decides what a marriage is? Who gets to say who/what you are?
🏳️🌈 What happens when a bi(coastal) relationship collides with the full force of the U.S. immigration system?
🐴 Is a man marrying a man the same as a man marrying a horse? (The question, historically, was asked.)
Also featuring:
– Clive Boutilier, the Canadian gay man deported for being a “psychopath” (1950s medical slang for "gay")
– A 1996 government letter from the Department of Justice that literally said to two gays: “A legal marriage cannot exist between two faggots.”
– Bill Clinton wriggling out from under the S&M grip of DOMA
– And one very filthy reading from our beloved guest...
Not to mention this very real quote:
🗣️ “Ordinarily a homo is psycho, but many are not.” — actual Supreme Court justice, 1967
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Episode Credits
Written and hosted by Bash.
Guest: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Edited by Alex Toskas.
Produced by Dani Henion.
Imagine a world where you're Russian, gay, and happy about it.
No this is not propaganda from the ultra-secret "Pinko" department of the Kremlin (they def have one of those).
This is the very real story of the magnificent Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the world's greatest composers and a big old homosexual.
He wrote the 1812 Overture, The Nutcracker, and the world’s gayest violin concerto (because it's "exuberant").
He also did Swan Lake, by the way, so perhaps most importantly, we wouldn't have Natalie Portman calling herself a WHORE on a mirror in red lipstick without him.
This week, Bash is joined by Princeton professor of music history Simon Morrison — author of Tchaikovsky’s Empire — to explore what it meant to be gay (and fabulous) in 19th-century Russia.
Together, they dismantle the myth of the tortured, closeted genius and paint a much queerer, more joyful picture of Tchaikovsky’s life.
💅 Topics include:
Why Tchaikovsky thrived as a gay man (in certain elite Russian circles, of course)
His disastrous lavender marriage to Antonina Milyukova
The kinky rumors, the tragic myths, and the straight up gay lies about his death
His read on Wagner (who made him yawn) and the dish on the famous Violin Concerto, dedicated to his hottie violinist crush, Iosif Kotek
Along the way, we ask the hard questions: Where were the best gay bars in St. Petersburg? Is Eugene Onegin queer-coded? And why does being gay make us better artists?
Stick around at the end for a special conversation with Oliver Zeffman, founder of Classical Pride, about this year’s line-up of queer classical music events in London and LA.
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Written and hosted by Bash. Guest: Professor Simon Morrison. Edited by Alex Toskas. Produced by Dani Henion.
What's so gay about food? (Besides the fact that you use your mouth for it.)
The answer, OF COURSE, lies in 18th century France.
In fact, food's sexy origins go even further back, all the way to the ancients: from Eve's naughty apple to Ancient Roman oysters (they made their orgasms more intense!).
But it was the invention of the restaurant in 18th century Paris that made food sexy, dangerous, and ultimately, gay.
By the 20th century, figures like Oscar Wilde and the Bloomsbury Set had made sure it was officially queer to eat out. Their associations of food with aesthetics and art ran counter to Anglo-American fears of public pleasure.
Eventually, it became more normal for people other than the French to talk about food, and even to try making their daily fare at home more edible. Thus began the modern association of caring about good food with homosexuality.
We end this episode discussing the lasting impact of those associations on our modern relationship with food.
Join us for this open buffet on food's queer history, featuring Professor Rachel Cleves, author of Lustful Appetites: A History of Good Food and Wicked Sex.
Together we uncover:
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Written and hosted by Bash. Guest speaker: Rachel Cleves. Edited by Alex Toskas. Produced by Dani Henion.
Why do bottoms always die in Greek mythology?
If you're a fan of Greek myth, you know the gods love to act like humans: they love, they fuck, they fight...they throw dinner parties.
But they also love to kill us. When gods show up on Earth, it typically means someone's about to get pregnant or dead, real quick. (Or both.)
And the pattern holds for the gay Greek myths. (With admittedly fewer pregnancies carried to term.)
Zeus and Apollo never seem able to keep their mortal boyfriends alive, while demigods like Herakles and Achilles also find it tricky to maintain their lovers' pulses.
Why is this? What's going on psychologically, historically, narratively, and yes, erotically, when the ancients were sang of so much LITERAL twink death in their myths?
Join Bash and Liv Albert, renowned Greek myth expert and host of the Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! podcast this week as they discuss:
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Written and hosted by Bash. Guest host: Liv Albert. Edited by Alex Toskas. Produced by Dani Henion.
The year is 1395. The city: London. The crime: an "unmentionable, ignominious vice" commonly known as sodomy.
And the perp? A rascally, resourceful enigma named John Rykener, who enters the court records "calling herself Eleanor," wearing women's clothes, and defying gravity / everything we know about medieval gender.
But John/Eleanor Rykener – or Jeleanor, as they shall henceforth be known to scholars – doesn't map easily onto our modern categories of "trans," "queer," or "sex worker."
Jeleanor lived and presented as both a man and a woman, depending on when it suited them. That made them highly creative with their gender, especially when it came to their day job, but does it mean they were "trans"?
They learned the cons that kept them surviving and thriving from a local madam. But in medieval London, to be a prostitute was to be a woman. The court is clear that Jeleanor was AMAB and that their crime was sodomy, not prostitution. So can we say they were seen as a sex worker in their own time?
And finally, they took to bed men and women from all walks of medieval life, for money and for fun. Does that make them queer or "bisexual"? Can we trust this court record to tell us about Jeleanor's experience of sexual desire? Did the court care more about the gender of Jeleanor's conquests, or their ties to the Church?
Join Bash and the brilliantly clever medievalist, Dr. Mireille Pardon, as we unpick and unpack the surviving legal record that details Jeleanor's deliciously saucy life.
Along the way we'll learn about:
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What comes after the collapse of capitalism? Mass famine? Global war? Environmental destruction? Oh wait, all of that's already happening!
It seems like, as a species, we're at a bit of a breaking point. Which means revolution is afoot, and we have to wonder: what the hell happens when it gets here?
For most of us, though, it's not easy to project what life looks like after the next economic revolution.
It's even more complex to wonder what happens to queer life: do we keep all our labels – "gay" "cis" "queer" – without a capitalist framework? Can we still go on vacation with our chosen families? Will there be any good gay bars?!
In this bonus episode, we team up with sociologist and author, Eman Abdelhadi, to imagine the radical, queer, and–get this–genuinely optimistic future that The Much-Awaited Revolution could offer us.
Drawing from her speculative oral history novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072, we explore what a world organized around care, kinship, and collective survival might look like.
Books mentioned:
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What if it's actually your butthole that will lead the revolution?
This week, we're getting penetratingly political with writer and podcaster Josh Rivers (Busy Being Black), as we explore the radical legacy of Mario Mieli's Towards a Gay Communism.
Here's the thing: Capitalism doesn't just steal your time and money—it also reinforces the gender binary, nuclear families, and heterosexual urges (which are totally normal to have!).
It turns out Capitalism is extremely tied up in our sex lives, because our sex lives have economic value.
And for that reason, The Big C is terrified of anything that rocks our sexy boats. According to Mieli, eros – ancient Greek for romantic-sexual desire – is a liberating force, which has the power to free us from the constrained categories of "homosexual" and "heterosexual." These "mutilations," as he calls them, only developed to reinforce the gender and sexual "norms" Capitalism needs to survive, the very same ones that keep us reproducing and addicted to respectability.
In this time of Globapocalypse, we're all looking for answers as to (a) what has led us here and (b) how we can move forward. It could be that part of the answer is in our pants, so join us this week as we discuss:
Eros as substructure: how sex and desire determine with our society's economic logic
The radical nature of anal sex (especially The Gay Version)
The capitalist scam of the "nuclear" family
Homo-normativity and the gay betrayal of queer radical Marxists
We also talk The Italian Job (what I call cruising in Rome), "educastration," "psychonazis," and the emotional dilemma of getting Obama’s inauguration date tattooed on one's arm (the solution is to get more tattoos of people doing sex on each other apparently).
Fabulous Books To Read:
Towards a Gay Communism – Mario Mieli
One-Dimensional Queer – Roderick Ferguson
The Prophetic Imagination – Walter Brueggemann
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We're back my little Hormones! Join Bash and his heavy flow of genius guests this season for another no-fucks-given romp through humanity's Big Gay Past. (We all have one!)
Come for the history, stay for the laughs, and if you're lucky, leave with a boner.
Please note: Erectile Gift With Purchase (EGWP) not guaranteed. First cum, first served.
We'll be penetrating your tight little earholes – with consent – on May 29, 2025.
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Love you...bye!
Happy Hole-idays, my little Hormones!
For our last episode of the year, we welcome Coco, the Time Traveling Slut, into your tight little earholes to answer some eternally pressing questions:
From the original Biblical temptress, (St)Eve, to Julius Caesar, Charles II, and Marie Antoinette, we take you on tour of history's scuzziest slores (slut whores), enriched with Coco's insider scoops – which, even for village bicycles like us, will shock and appall.
(Oh! Suddenly I'm dripping.)
Along the way, you'll get all the gossip about Ancient Greco-Roman Sluts; a little known Middle Eastern Startup that disrupted sex 2,000 years ago: it's called Christianity; ancient Indian and Islamic sex positivity, and much, much more.
(No wait I am actually fully wet now.)
You can get more good stuff from Coco on her Instagram, and make sure to book one of her tours in London or Paris if you're there in early 2025!
Now, time to get lubed up and ready to ride, cuz this is one venereal Christmas special you can't afford to ignore!
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