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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

ancient medicine

medieval healthcare for men too expensive

Medieval men suffering from lovesickness were often denied healthcare or unable to pay the expense. Love of God was a superior way. … Read the post medieval healthcare for men too expensive

al-Alfiya, a thousand-man woman, shows intellectual decadence

Al-Alfiya, an ancient Indian empirical scholar of sex, had sex with a thousand men. Her sexual learning spread through Persia and the Islamic world. … Read the post al-Alfiya, a thousand-man woman, shows intellectual decadence

men suffering lovesickness: viaticum in medieval Latin poetry

The Arundel Lyrics, exquisite erotic poetry written in Latin in twelfth-century England, thoroughly explore the viaticum’s polarities of lovesickness … Read the post men suffering lovesickness: viaticum in medieval Latin poetry

Calabre of Paris, woman physician of the 14th century, helped men

Medieval physicians such as the famous woman physician Calabre of Paris helped women to be more pleasing to men. … Read the post Calabre of Paris, woman physician of the 14th century, helped men

gods and physicians in ancient Greek inscriptions and epigrams

In the ancient Greco-Roman world, gods and physicians prompted hope and ridicule from healing inscriptions in Asclepeia to highly literary epigrams. … Read the post gods and physicians in ancient Greek inscriptions and epigrams

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