The History of the Clitoris
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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Colombo's Great Discovery Got Lost, and I Love That Quote
Colombo's boss Sahlius put him down with and I've got a quote here saying that actually that what he had discovered was some sport of nature you have observed in some women. He said if these parts of the pudendum had not been endowed with such an exquisite sensitivity to pleasure and passion, no woman would be willing to take upon herself the irksome nine months long business of raising children. But he actually found it, he did anatomical dissections, also he's got this great quote that I love: "Some anatomists make no more mention of this part than if it did not exist at all"
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