{"id":2046,"date":"2025-08-03T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:39:01","slug":"welcome-to-history-sex-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/?p=2046","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to History. Sex. Power."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Substack, I\u2019m building a cultural and literary salon and a community for the like-minded. We\u2019re <strong>female-focused<\/strong>, but <strong>men are most welcome, especially if well-behaved. \ud83d\ude09<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some think of a salon as a place to get your hair done. Me, I think of Madame de Sta\u00ebl and her infamous salons, where she hosted the <em>cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me<\/em> of 18th century intellectuals, artists, &amp; politicians. Guess what they, too, discussed? <strong>HISTORY. SEX. POWER.<\/strong> And they seeded a revolution or two!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!hcSb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe27bb65a-621f-499d-ae4a-e9797ce2d8df_485x633.heic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!hcSb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe27bb65a-621f-499d-ae4a-e9797ce2d8df_485x633.heic\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Infamous 18th century salon hostess, Madame de Sta\u00ebl, my muse for creating History. Sex. Power.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join me in my salon as we explore the lives of <strong>women that both seduced the world and ruled it, along with their equally dangerous consorts<\/strong>, from a place of <strong>obsessive historical research. My favorite part is to connect it all to its meaning to us today<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udc51 Two Ways to Step Inside:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\ud83c\udf39 Free Subscriber<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u2728 Behind-the-scenes dispatches from my novels, scripts, and creative life.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83d\udcda Book announcements and bonus chapters, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f Access to my upcoming <strong>podcast<\/strong> <strong><em>History. Sex. Power<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83d\udddd\ufe0f The \u201chow I did it\u201d of it all to encourage you on your path.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83d\udc8b And occasionally\u2026 free gifts, multi-author giveaways, and bold ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/karenessex.substack.com\/subscribe\">Join For Free!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\ud83d\udd25 Become a Patron and Muse. <\/strong>Join the inner circle for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Online salons with me and exclusive posts and podcasts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Access to my most intimate work, reflections I only share behind the velvet rope that will be published in a memoir.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Serialized fiction, first looks, and other work that no one else has seen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Curious about becoming a Patron and Muse?<\/strong> <strong>The velvet rope lifts here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/karenessex.substack.com\/subscribe\">Enter The Salon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As ever,<br><strong>Karen<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where power wears perfume, seduction builds empires, and survival is a work of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,12,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-history","category-power","category-sex","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}