The popularity of costume dramas showing Regency England as a hotbed of sexual tension, salacious gossip and extra-marital affairs continues to captivate audiences' imagination around the world. Sex and Sensibility lifts the lid on the racy real sex lives of Georgian and Regency gentry.

 

Combining the locations of Netflix's Bridgerton with contributions from leading historians and drama reconstruction, we discover the sex, drugs and Georgian rock and roll were very much a part of Regency high society.