S1 E5: Valentine’s Day Special! Love Hurts: Abelard and Heloise
S1 E5: Valentine’s Day Special! Love Hurts: Abelard and Heloise  
Podcast: In Walks a Woman
Published On: Fri Feb 14 2025
Description: Sonja takes Vanessa down a rabbit hole to the 12th century for a scandalous romance, starring a very learned woman named Heloise.  If you’re tired of the passion ending at the altar, this episode’s for you: spicy letters, secluded country estates, lots of reading, divine and carnal love, and keeping passion lit–even in the face of late-in-life eunuchism.  IWAW celebrates that love can be messy!Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Pierre Bayle