Pilgrim Sex Lives They Stuffed More Than A Turkey Or Two

This episode is your invitation to the side of Thanksgiving that no teacher ever mentioned. Robert and Anna pull back the curtain on the Puritans and reveal a world that was a whole lot less pure than the myths. These were people who preached restraint, obsessed over sin, punished desire in public, and still managed to sneak in plenty of very human, very messy sex behind closed doors. Marriage laws, adultery trials, premarital confession records, pregnancy timelines that did not quite add up, and community punishments that tell a completely different story than the wholesome paintings hanging in your child’s school cafeteria.

We break down how Puritan sex rules shaped early American culture, how they used shame as a tool, how often they caught each other slipping, and why this history matters when we talk about sexual health today. The contradictions are hilarious, infuriating, and revealing. They were stuffing more than a turkey or two, and the receipts are in the archives.

It is funny, it is wild, it is fully cited, and it ties directly into what we see every day in modern sexual health. If you enjoy learning the real history your teachers tried to sanitize, you are going to love this one.