A Sexual History of the Female

Discoveries about the Sexual Function of women have been coming forth since way back in the fourth century. Here are some of the more interesting, but useless, facts.

In the fourth century some Romans believed that women could lower their sexual desire and prevent pregnancies by ingesting (drinking) pigeon droppings mixed with oil and wine, or by rubbing their loins with the blood of ticks taken from a wild black bull.

(Don't try this at home folks...first of all pigeons are NASTY as well as good luck in trying to find a wild black bull.)

In the 1500's an Italian doctor, Mateo Renald Columbus, was the first to scientifically recognize the female orgasm. He noticed a hill-like appendage, naming it the clitoris, after the greek name for "little hill". His research lands him in prison.

(Prison is where he belongs...that thing's not so little sometimes).

Medical authorities in the 1800's identified an epidemic of hysteria among western women. The medical treatment? A Clitoral Massage. British doctor, Joseph Mortimer Granville, patents the first electro-mechanical vibrator, allowing doctors to treat six women patients within one hour then just one.

(Yea...treatment was the only thing on his mind...right).

In 1918 Sears Roebuck offers a vibrator in its catalogue, describing it as an "aid that every woman appreciates".

(A Vibrator? In a Sears catalogue? NO WAY!)

US and future Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown creates a stir in 1962 with the publishment of her best selling book, "sex and the Single Girl", discussing the advantages of the unmarried life, including a healthy sex life. Feminists label her a pioneer.

(Single is definitely better.)

In the 1970's micro dissection techniques improved medical knowledge about how nerves and blood vessels work in the penis. Researchers don't bother doing similar tests on the clitoris.

(A little Male Sexual History thown in there.)

In 1987 American Psychiatric Association removes "nymphomania" from it manual of mental disorders; it also drops the male equivalent "Don Juanism". The APA later continues to back away from dysfunction, completely removing sexual addiction in 1994.

(If sexual addiction isn't a mental disorder, what is it?)

An Australian doctor, Helen O'Connell, discovered, in 1998, that the clitoris is twice as large as previously believed and that many terms used for the female genital parts are-inaccuratly-based on the male anatomy

(Girl Power strikes again, told you that Italian doctor belonged in jail.)