Women's Studies 2162A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Middle Ages, Street Prostitution, Missionary Position

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2162A/B
• Professor: Julianna Beaudoin

Document Summary

Sex should just be for procreation, not pleasure. If you enjoy it, this could be considered adultery. Intercourse is supposed to be good for your humoral balance. Everything you eat has to be a combination of wet dry hot and cold: ex. Either wet and cold , hot and dry, etc: belief that men are warm and dry. It was believed that women were the ones craving sex because they were cold and wet and they were after being hot and dry. The female body is said to be able to have max 7 babies: 3 females, 3 males, one hermaphrodite. Apparently since eve committed the original sin (giving adam the poison apple) this is why childbirth is painful. Prostitution: yellow and green were main colours, yellow is the colour of the roman empire, yellow also connected with sulfur, green is connected to spring, life, vegetation, green also became a colour of the devil.