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Rachel Feltman

Rachel is the Executive Editor of Popular Science and the host of the podcast The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. She previously founded the blog “Speaking of Science” for the Washington Post.

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In the Middle Ages, An Impotent Man Was Society’s Blackest Sheep

In ‘Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex,’ Rachel Feltman tells the awkward, often hilarious histories behind our most carnal proclivities and pastimes. None, however, was weirder than the Medieval role of the guy who couldn’t get it up