A few years ago, when Irish actress Nicola Coughlan wanted to show her mother what she does on TV, they both watched the Netflix series Bridgerton, in which she starred. Coughlan was a bit ashamed because: “There’s always banging.” That’s true, but “Bridgerton” managed to create the genre of the dressed sex series. How, what and when it was also driven in this colorful and very pop-baroque baroque intriguer at the English court in 1831 – the highest level of nudity was a male buttocks. The real sex was on the faces. But that all the time, because it was about procreation, which is apparently the only work that the nobility knows.

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