From Victorian “death trap” warnings to Hollywood-mandated twin beds to today’s so-called “sleep divorce,” this is the strange history of why married couples stopped sharing a bed… and why they might be starting again.
History changes fast. Sometimes all it takes is a mattress, a moral panic, and a really good ad campaign.
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00:00 Intro
01:26 Fear Of Bad Air And Disease
02:34 The Victorian Bedroom As A Death Trap
04:16 Dr William Whitty Hall's War On Shared Sleep
06:06 Twin Beds Become A Mark Of Modern Class
07:10 Marketing Twin Beds As The Ideal Lifestyle
09:35 Hollywood Censorship And The Twin Bed Rule
14:45 Why Twin Beds Fell Out Of Favor
17:21 Marie Stopes And The Attack On Twin Beds
20:56 How The Meaning Of Twin Beds Was Forgotten
22:46 Sleep Divorce And The Return Of Separate Beds
25:49 Outro
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