The Anglo-Saxons clearly had sex. But how did they think about sex? And what were their sex lives actually like? Dr Christopher Monk is an expert in the subject, and in this bonus episode – only for HistoryExtra Plus subscribers – he explains to David Musgrove what the historical sources reveal about Anglo-Saxon attitudes to sex, and how the church tried to control sexual activity.

Read more on this subject in our new feature, “I counted the penises in the Bayeux Tapestry and I have no regrets”: what one Oxford professor found when he studied the rudest bits of the embroidery