On medieval medicine:
Numerous other medical ideas linking health with sexuality also caused dissension in the medical ranks. For instance, the debate over the existence of female semen raged throughout classical and medieval literature. Galen recommended masturbation as a way to rid a woman's body of spoiled female semen that could corrupt her blood. His views were part of the larger question of whether the womb was stationary or wandered throughout the body. Scientists who believed the uterus was mobile thought lack of sex caused it to become too dry. They claimed that the womb of a sexually inactive woman moved around her body searching for moisture, thereby producing a variety of medical problems. if it stopped at the heart it caused vomiting, while a uterus lodged at the liver resulted in loss of voice and an ashem complexion. Physicians who disagreed with the "wandering womb" theory usually cited the fact that it would be impossible for the uterus to leap over the stomach.
Numerous other medical ideas linking health with sexuality also caused dissension in the medical ranks. For instance, the debate over the existence of female semen raged throughout classical and medieval literature. Galen recommended masturbation as a way to rid a woman's body of spoiled female semen that could corrupt her blood. His views were part of the larger question of whether the womb was stationary or wandered throughout the body. Scientists who believed the uterus was mobile thought lack of sex caused it to become too dry. They claimed that the womb of a sexually inactive woman moved around her body searching for moisture, thereby producing a variety of medical problems. if it stopped at the heart it caused vomiting, while a uterus lodged at the liver resulted in loss of voice and an ashem complexion. Physicians who disagreed with the "wandering womb" theory usually cited the fact that it would be impossible for the uterus to leap over the stomach.
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Also? I want to have a crush on a pretty boy my own damn age, or older. No more scruffy underfed facial hair fanatics damnit. Or younger men.