One little-known amateur scientist, Princess Marie Bonaparte, the great-grandniece of Napoleon, was determined to explain her own nonexistent relationship between intercourse and orgasm by physically measuring the distance from clitoris to vagina (typically about an inch) in 243 subjects.
Interestingly, modern researchers believe, for the moment, this study remains valid and reliable.
But as with any history of health or medicine, the earliest research is often the most astonishing in its quackery. In 1491, Roach gleefully recounts, it was believed that after making penises disappear, witches would collect the offending organs in a bird's nest, where they continued to subsist on a diet of oats and corn.(read More...)Bonk
The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
By Mary Roach
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