
Periods, fertility & childbirth: a pre-modern history
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Is There a Preferential Relationship Between Women and Sexuality?
There was a belief that a baby could not be conceived unless the woman orgasmed in sex. The idea of both partners achieving sexual pleasure has to do again with heat. Heat is the source of life, and so both people have to reach this heat for the seed to be admitted. So it's very much about the physiology of warmth and heat.
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