The woman is historically the shadow. Until today the feminine subjects (arts etc) live on the fringe of the curiculum. The feminine has been completely banned from the universities, leaving them emotionally dead. Yet deeply enthrenched in medical theory we still find relics testifying to the deep roots of the exclusion of the feminine. The following is a little curiosity which illustrates how the woman has been the subject of great repression historically, scientifically and medically:
In 1870 John Davenpoort would have us believe that women shouldn't have orgasms at all. "As he described it in Curiositatis Eroticae Physiolgiae (1875), the result of orgasm in women was that:
"She burns and as it were, dries up the semen received by her from the male, and if by chance a child is conceived, it is ill-formed and does not remain nine months in the mother's womb."
(In "Taking charge of your fertility" By Tony Weschler, MPH, 2006 p. 246).
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