Women's Studies 2162A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Coitus Interruptus, Penitential, Middle Ages
17 Apr 2016
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Certain positions (women on top, men giving women certain pleasure) was considered sodomy. Food related: if you eat too much you could excite your sexual lust, fast days were days you would also abstain from sex. Aritstotle: the man"s seed formed the child. Glean: 1st century ad male and a female orgasm to procreate. There would need to be pleasure involved on the female side. Humorism: 4 humours: hot, dry, wet, cold. Daous gorius: a book on plants and their affects, had things that would provoke your menstruation. Persian physicians: medical writers, tampons, condoms, coitus interruptus all mentioned. Medieval love stories weren"t written involving sex with procreation. The birthing chair: the midwife would catch the baby from sitting in an angled wooden chair, easier birth using gravity. Picture of adam, eve, and the tree: the focus on eve being the temptress, the pain of child birth is the fault of her deed.
