![“Hippocrates wrote: ‘In the middle of the flanks of women lies the womb, a female viscus [organ], closely resembling an animal… in a word, it is altogether erratic. It delights in fragrant smells, and advances towards them; and it has an aversion to fetid smells, and flees from them; and on the whole the womb is like an animal within an animal.’
Galen, a 2nd century physician, recommended married patients to have more sex with their husbands, and unmarried women, nuns or widows–all of who were the most common complainants–to either marry, take part in vigorous horseback riding, energetic rocking on a swing, or massaging of the vulva to ‘induce the hysterical paroxysm,’ i.e. an orgasm.”
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“Hippocrates wrote: ‘In the middle of the flanks of women lies the womb, a female viscus [organ], closely resembling an animal… in a word, it is altogether erratic. It delights in fragrant smells, and advances towards them; and it has an aversion to fetid smells, and flees from them; and on the whole the womb is like an animal within an animal.’
Galen, a 2nd century physician, recommended married patients to have more sex with their husbands, and unmarried women, nuns or widows–all of who were the most common complainants–to either marry, take part in vigorous horseback riding, energetic rocking on a swing, or massaging of the vulva to ‘induce the hysterical paroxysm,’ i.e. an orgasm.”
