Catharine Arnold

Catharine Arnold is the author of The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City.

From her Q & A with Kevin Canfield at The Daily Beast:

This is an entertaining book, but some of the material is pretty grim. For instance, you write about the many brothels to be found in Roman London. Isn’t it right that some of these brothels took hold because of an odd superstition on