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The History of the Clitoris
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
The Victorians Were Obsessed With What Would Happen if Women Experienced Pleasure
The Victorians were appalled at the idea that women could experience sexual pleasure through the clitoris and on their own. The man who was happily snipping out the clitorises of any woman who presented with anything as much as Ningro and Tonal was eventually struck off, wasn't he? But he wasn't the only one doing this, not by a long shot. He was part of a culture that was writing about female sexuality that was presenting it as flawed, as dangerous, as threatening.
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