Mary Roach

The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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Bastien Vaucher

Women who came to him (Aethios) for contraceptive advice were told to wear a piece of cat liver in an ivory tube attached to their left foot. Though 1 suppose this might well keep you from getting pregnant, in the same way that wearing Crocs might.

I will leave you with the story of a fifty-six-year-old government officer in India who told emergency room doctors that he had cut off his penis in order to cure a longstanding case of incontinence. One of the physicians, who wrote up the case for the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, suspected deeper mental turmoil was at play, as the patient had earlier jumped into a well, in what was ruled an attempted suicide. Though given this man's flair for therapeutic over-kill, it's possible he was merely thirsty.

My conclusion, a conclusion you will encounter many times in the course of these pages, is that the sexual anatomy and responses of the human female are as uniform and predictable as the weather.

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