So You’re Writing a Sapphic Historical Romance: Questions to ConsiderThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 53d with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about the questions to ask about sapphic relationships and how they are perceived in your story’s setting:

• How easy is it to live outside of the heterosexual marriage paradigm?
• What are the economic, legal, and religious constraints on your characters?
• What is the ordinary “background noise” of non-sexual displays of affection?
• How does the culture of the setting understand privacy and how does that affect your characters’ behavior?
• What are the realities and perceptions around sex between women in this setting?
• How does the culture of the setting understand gender and sexuality?
• How are female couples depicted in popular culture of the time?

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