And how accurate are the sex scenes?
In 2018, we were treated to two films about historical monarchs that also featured prominent scenes of queer lovemaking. In The Favourite, set in the early 1700s, two of Queen Anne’s attending gentlewomen, Sarah and Abigail jockey for power — and a spot in the Queen’s royal bed. And in Mary Queen of Scots, set in the mid-1500s, Mary finds her new husband sleeping with another man on her wedding night .
The easiest way to think about it is just that identity wasn’t really a thing like that. Nobody would ever have thought to identify themselves as what we call heterosexual or homosexual. There wasn’t a radical separation between what we recognize as sexual intimacy and the other kinds of bodily intimacy with which people lived at the time, particularly for elite people, who had women who literally undressed them and washed their vaginas.
To the the extent that we have records of any of these things there are remarkably few prosecutions of people for sodomy. Remarkably few. And same thing with tribadism — women were only prosecuted if they were using devices like dildos. What we would call “butch-femme” love, where one takes the masculine role and one takes the feminine role, might have been notable because there might be concern about a woman usurping the male role. But when it was “femme-femme” love it was totally unremarkable.
Mary seemed relatively chill when she found her new husband in bed with a man — is that not the kind of thing that would have been a shock at the time?
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