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FLICK
  • Published: 28 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529938944
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $45.00

FLICK

The Story of Female Pleasure

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Tr. Paperback
26 May 2026
Hardback
14 June 2026
EBook
28 May 2026
Audiobook
28 May 2026
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A feisty, funny romp through the history of sex and female pleasure, from one of the most exciting new media historians.

We like to think of the modern ‘sex positive’ movement as being a radical break from the past; that we are finally sorting out the repression and denial of women’s sexual pleasure that has restricted us throughout history. But women demanding better sex did not arrive with modern day feminism or the Rampant Rabbit. It has been a very long fight indeed.

It is true that women’s sexual pleasure has been heavily repressed, stigmatised, and even denied at various points throughout history, but it has also been celebrated, venerated, and thoroughly, THOROUGHLY, enjoyed. Women have been fighting for their right to enjoy sex all along and theirs is a story that needs to be told.

From the Aztec sex goddesses to ivory marital aids, Flick takes us through history to meet the matriarchal minxes who (quite literally) came before us.
  • Published: 28 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529938944
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Kate Lister

Dr Kate Lister is an historian, columnist, television presenter and host of the award-winning History Hit podcast Betwixt the Sheets. She has published widely in the field of sex history, and lives in the north of England.
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Praise for FLICK

This eye-opening account of how women's pleasure has been controlled throught time is thought provoking and intrepid...an excellent, spiky book.

TELEGRAPH

Brilliantly researched, and joyfully written, this is a history of what sex really means for women. Finally.

DR ELEANOR JANEGA

FLICK delves into the history of women's lived experiences and sexual repression, while also making us question modern assumptions of female pleasure.

LOUISE QUICK

An absolute delight, and a must-read! Well-researched, informative and everything we have come to expect from Dr Lister.

ROSALIE GILBERT

Unique, brilliant, gripping and unforgettable

PROF KATE WILLIAMS

A deeply satisfying history

DR JULIA MARTINS

Flicking excellent . . . Kate Lister is a goddess.

DR LUCY WORSLEY

Flick is a brisk, irreverent and often darkly funny history of how we came to imagine that women should ‘lie back and think of England’ . . . What makes Flick more than a fun romp through sexual history is the way it draws the line straight to the present. Some readers may well bristle at Lister’s work here . . . But – just maybe – those are the very readers who most need to hear it.

Sarah Jones, History Extra