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Our F/Favorite Tropes: Kissing Lessons The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 244 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The “kissing lessons” trope in historic romance
• The culture of kissing and how it interacts with gender
• Scenarios for using kissing lessons between women to drive a romance plot
• Sources mentioned
  • Berry, Helen. 2005. “Lawful Kisses? Sexual Ambiguity and Platonic Friendship in England, c. 1660-1720” in The Kiss in History, ed. Karen Harvey, 62-79. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6594-1
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Kissing

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)