A History of the C-Word
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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The History of Cunt
Cunt has been in the Oxford English dictionary for a while and it continues to get revised. It also has some compounds that are now dead so cunt beaten used to mean impotent And Cumbitan used to mean infected with a sexually transmitted disease. There's also a navel not a way of splicing rope together which is called a cunt splice after this show break I'm professor Suzanne Ellipscomb and on my podcast try to make sense of everything that baffled our early modern ancestors.
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