the butterfly effect

Science has never felt at home with the clitoris. It never seemed to fit any logical theory. After all, isn’t sex supposed to be all about reproduction? But the clitoris hasn’t always been given the cold shoulder. When the Academy believed it helped women’s fertility, it was conceded every virtue. Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, believed women also had sperm and needed an orgasm to produce it. That theory had a long and happy life. During the Middle Ages, despite the church’s deep mistrust of pleasure, doctor’s prescribed all kinds of surprising treatments. Coat the finger with scented oil and rub the vulva in a circular motion…. If we are to believe Buccacio and Chaucer, women’s sexual appetite was far greater than men’s. From Rome to London… women were… randy!. But all good things come to an end. Finbineden explained how reproduction really worked. The clitoris was out. A few years later, Freud recognised the importance of the orgasm, but claimed that the clitoral orgasm was infantile. A real woman ought to achieve a vaginal orgasm!