A Curious History of Sex

Index

Abbot, George, (i)

Aborne, Elizabeth, (i)

abortion, (i)

Abu Hurayra, (i)

actirasty, (i)

Acton, William, (i)

Adams, Jane, (i)

Adams, Sargent, (i)

Adélie penguins, (i)n

adultery, (i), (ii)

Aelian, (i)

Aeschines, (i)

Æthelberht, King of Kent, (i)

Aëtius of Amida, (i)

agalmatophilia, (i)

Agélou, Jean, (i)

Aggrawal, Anil, (i)

Agnes of Merania, (i)

Aguilera, Christina, (i)

AIDS, (i), (ii)

Albert Victor, Prince, (i)

Albucasis, (i)

Allan, James McGrigor, (i)

Althaus, Dr, (i)

alum, (i), (ii)

Al-Zahrawi, (i)

ambergris, (i)

‘Amor Veneris’, (i)

Amsterdam sex workers protest, (i)

anaphrodisiacs, (i)

Andrews, Lorrin, (i)

Ann-Margaret, (i)

Anthony, Susan B., (i)

antidepressants, (i)

Antonius Liberalis, (i)

aphrodisiacs, (i)

see also anaphrodisiacs

Aphrodite, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Aphrodite of Knidos, (i)

Apollo’s Medley, (i)

aqueducts, (i)

Arabic medical texts, (i)

Aretaeus, (i)

Aretino, Pietro, (i)

Aristophanes, (i), (ii)

Aristotle, (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv)

Arnold of Villanova, (i)

Arthasastra of Kautilya, (i)

Arthur, King, (i)

Arthur, Elizabeth, (i)

Arunta people, (i)

Ash, Russell, (i)

Astins, Elizabeth Eldred, (i)

Astruc, John, (i)

Athenaeus of Naucratis, (i)

Aubrey, John, (i), (ii)

Australian Aborigines, (i)

Avicenna, (i)

Aztecs, (i)

B, Madame, (i)

Baartman, Sara, (i), (ii), (iii)

baboons, (i)

Babylonians, (i)

Baden-Powell, Robert, (i)

Bailey, William, (i)

ballads and songs, bawdy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

banter, (i), (ii)

Barbie dolls, (i)

Barclay, Andrew Whyte, (i)

Barker, Isabel, (i)

Barrett, Martha, (i)

Barrow, Sir John, (i)

Bartholin, Thomas, (i)

bathing and washing, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Beaney, James George, (i)

Beard, Mary, (i)

Beare, Eleanor, (i)

Beat poets, (i)

Beaver, Abraham, (i)

Beck, J. R., (i)

bees, (i)

Begasse, Ken, Jr, (i)

behavioural immune system, (i)

Belfort, Grace, (i)

Bellocq, E. J., (i)

Benedictine monks, (i)

Benjamin, Harry, (i)

Berry, Mary, (i)

Beuthien, Reinhard, (i)

‘bicycle face’, (i)

bicycles, (i)

Bienville, M. D. T. de, (i)

Bild Lilli, (i)

black men’s genitals, (i)

black women, sexualisation of, (i)

Blagge, Anne, (i)

Blanchard phallus, (i)

Blank, Hanne, (i)

blasphemy, (i)

Bliss, W. W., (i)

Bloch, Iwan, (i), (ii), (iii)

Block, A. J., (i)

Blondell, Gloria, (i)

‘Blue Books’, (i), (ii)

Blum, Victor, (i)

Blundell, Dr, (i)

Boccaccio, Giovanni, (i)

Boleyn, Anne, (i)

Bonaparte, Princess Marie, (i)

Book of Kings, (i)

Book of Leviticus, (i)

Book of Proverbs, (i)

Book of Women’s Love, (i), (ii)

Boots the Chemists, (i)

Boswell, James, (i), (ii)

Botox injections, (i)

Botticelli, Sandro, (i)

bowdlerisation, (i)

Boy Scouts, (i)

Brahideswara temple, (i)

Brandt, Thure, (i)

bread, (i)

Breckenridge, Mary, (i)

Briggs, Keith, (i)

Brinkley, John Richard, (i)

Britby, John, (i)

British Board of Film Classification, (i)

Brody, Stuart, (i)

Brome, Richard, (i)

brothels

and bathhouses, (i)

‘brothel babies’, (i)

Isabel Barker’s, (i)

Mary Wilson’s, (i)

molly houses, (i), (ii)

oysters served in, (i)

Pygmalionists and, (i)

sex doll, (i)

Southwark, (i), (ii)

Brown, Isaac Baker, (i), (ii)

Brown, Thomas, (i)

Brown-Séquard, Charles-Édouard, (i)

Buchan, William, (i)

Büchner, Georg, (i)

Buggery Act (1533), (i)

Burchard, Bishop of Worms, (i), (ii), (iii)

Burton, Robert, (i)

Caldwell, Christina, (i)

Cambridge University, admits women, (i)

Campegius, Johannes Bruerinus, (i)

camphor, (i)

Caprotti, Gian Giacomo, (i)

capuchin monkeys, (i)

Carlile, Richard, (i)

Carnal Knowledge, (i)

Casanova, Giacomo, (i), (ii), (iii)

Cashmore, Ellis, (i)

castor, (i)

castration, (i), (ii), (iii)

chemical, (i), (ii)

Catherine of Aragon, (i)

celibacy, priestly, (i)

cervical cancer, (i)

Cesars, Hendrik, (i)

Chandler, Daniel, (i)

Charles II, King, (i)

Charpy, Adrian, (i)

Chartier, Alain, (i)

chastity belts, (i)

Chaucer, Geoffrey, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Chen, Keith, (i)

Chen Ziming, (i)

Chhaupadi tradition, (i)

Chicago, Judy, (i)

Childs, William, (i)

Chinese medicine, (i)

chlamydia, (i), (ii)

Chorier, Nicolas, (i)

Christie, Linford, (i)

Cicero, (i)

circumcision, (i), (ii)

civet, (i)

Clap, ‘Mother’ Margaret, (i)

Clarke, Sir Edward, (i)

Classic of Su Nu, The, (i)

Clawecunte, Godwin, (i)

Cleland, John, see Fanny Hill

Clevecunt, Robert, (i)

‘Cleveland Street Scandal’, (i), (ii)

Clinton, Hillary, (i)

clitoris, (i)

clitoral hood reduction, (i)

and eighteenth-century pornography, (i)

hypertrophied, (i), (ii), (iii)

and lesbianism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

and masturbation, (i), (ii), (iii)

sex workers and, (i)

structure, (i)

and witchcraft, (i)

the word, (i), (ii)

see also female genital mutilation (FGM)

Clodius Albinus, Emperor, (i)

cocklebread, (i), (ii)

Code of Hammurabi, (i)

coffee, (i)

coitus interruptus, (i), (ii)

Coleman, Kit, (i)

Colombo, Realdo, (i)

Columbus, Christopher, (i), (ii)n

Comstock Laws, (i)

condoms, (i), (ii), (iii)

Confessionale, (i)

conquistadors, (i)

contraception, (i), (ii), (iii)

see also abortion; condoms

contraceptive pill, (i), (ii), (iii)

cooling the body, (i), (ii)

Cooper, Lucy, (i)

Coote, Rosa, (i)

Coppinger, Ruth, (i)

copulins, (i)

Coram, Thomas, (i)

cornflakes, (i), (ii)

corsets, (i)

corticosteroids, (i)

Courtney, Edward, (i)

Cox, Thomas, (i)

Cranny, John Joseph, (i)

Criminal Justice and Police Act (2001), (i)

Crisp, Quentin, (i)

Cromwell, Oliver, (i)

Crooke, Helkiah, (i)

Cruikshank, William, (i)

cuckoldry, (i)

Cullender, Rose, (i)

Culpeper, Nicholas

Complete Herbal, (i)

Physical Directory, (i)

cunnilingus, (i), (ii), (iii)

Cunt, Fanny, and family, (i)

‘cunt’ (the word), (i), (ii)

‘Cunt art’ movement, (i)

Cuntles, Gunoka, (i)

Curll, Edmund, (i)

Cuvier, Georges-Frédéric, (i)

cyprine, (i)

dances, classical Indian, (i)

Daniel, Thomas, (i)

Dante, (i)

Dapper, Olfert, (i)

Davenport, John, (i), (ii), (iii)

David and Jonathan, (i)

de Fonte, Walter, (i)

De Graaf, Regnier, (i)

De Secretis Mulierum, (i)

de Worde, Wynkyn, (i)

Decretum, (i), (ii)

Delicado, Francisco, (i)

Delights for Ladies, (i)

Demeter, (i)

Derrick, Sam, (i)

devadasi tradition, (i)

‘Devereaux, Captain Charles’, (i)

Devi, Phulan, (i)

Dewees, William Potts, (i)

Diagnosis, Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of Women, The, (i)

Dickens, Charles, (i)

Dickinson, Robert, (i)

‘dildo bikes’, (i)

dildos, (i), (ii)

disgust, (i), (ii)

Disney, Walt, (i)

divorce and annulment, (i)

Donnersmarck, Count Henckel von, (i)

Douglas, Lord Alfred, (i), (ii)

Douglas, James, (i)

Drais, Baron Karl von, (i)

Dudley Castle, (i)n

Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine, (i)

Dunglison, Robley, (i)

Dunlop, William, (i), (ii)

Dunton, John, (i)

Dyak people, (i)

Ebers Papyrus, (i)

ectopic pregnancy, (i)

Edward III, King, (i)

Eguisier, Maurice, (i)

Elizabeth I, Queen, (i), (ii)

Ellenborough, Lord, (i)

Ellerton, Thomas, (i)

Ellis, Havelock, (i), (ii)

Elyot, Thomas, (i)

endorphins, (i)

Ensler, Eva, see Vagina Monologues, The

erectile dysfunction, see impotence

Essence Magazine, (i)

exercise, increases sex drive, (i)

Exeter Book riddles, (i)

Exorcist, The, (i)

Falcucci, Niccolo, (i)

Falloppio, Gabriele, (i), (ii), (iii)

Fane, Sir Francis, (i)

Fanny Hill (Cleland), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

fasting, (i)

female genital mutilation (FGM), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

‘feminine hygiene’, (i)

feminism

and ‘cunt’, (i)

and ‘me too’, (i)

and pubic hair, (i)

and sexual slang, (i)

Ferguson, Anthony, (i)

Fernande, Miss, (i)

Fiaux, Louis, (i)

Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), (i)

Fillecunt, John, (i)

First Lateran Council, (i)

First Nations, (i)

First World War, (i), (ii)

fish, inserted into vagina, (i)

Fisher, Professor George, (i)

Fitzroy, Henry James, (i)

Florio, John, (i)

Flowers, Margaret, (i)

Foldes, Pierre, and Odile Buisson, (i)

follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), (i)

Foote, Edward, (i)

Freud, Sigmund, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

frigidity, in women, (i)

Froch, Carl, (i)

Galen, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

García Márquez, Gabriel, (i)

Gardner, Ann, (i), (ii)

George, Prince, of Greece and Denmark, (i)

Gerald of Wales, (i)

Gerard of Cremona, (i)

Gerber, Robin, (i)

Gilgamesh, (i)

Ginsberg, Allen, (i)

Giovanni da Vigo, (i)

gland face creams, (i)

Glendering, Judith, (i)

goat glands, (i)

Goldberg, Jeremy, (i)

Golden, Bertha, (i)

gonorrhoea, (i), (ii), (iii)

Goodyear, Charles, (i)

Gould, Gerald, (i)

Goya, Francisco, (i)

Gräfenberg spot (G-spot), (i), (ii)

Graham, Rev. Sylvester, (i)

Granville, Joseph Mortimer, (i)

Gratian, (i)n

Gray, Euphemia, (i)

Green, Jonathon, (i)

Gregory II, Pope, (i)n

Griffin, William, (i)

Gropecuntlanes, (i)

Grose, Francis, (i), (ii), (iii)

Grotte des Combarrelles, (i)n

Guernsey, Henry Newell, (i)

Guy de Chauliac, (i)

Gwerful Mechain, (i)

Haas, Earle, (i)

Haire, Norman, (i)

Halban, Josef, (i)

Hall, John, (i)

Hall, Radclyffe, (i)

Halliwell, William, (i)

Hammond, Charles, (i)

Hammond, Natalie, and Sarah Kingston, (i)

Handler, Ruth, (i)

Hanks, Postal Constable Luke, (i)

Harper’s Magazine, (i)

Harrard, Elizabeth, (i)

Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Harvey, Lady, (i)

Hawaiians, (i), (ii)

Hayes, Charlotte, (i), (ii)

Head, Richard, (i)

Healey, Trebor, (i)

Heiber, Beryl, (i)

Henry the Navigator, Prince, (i)

Henry VIII, King, (i)

Herodotus, (i)

herpes, (i), (ii)

Hesiod, (i)

Hewetson, Thomas, (i)

Heyward, Robert, (i)

Hildegard of Bingen, (i)

Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims, (i)

Hindu Social Reform Association, (i)

Hippocrates, (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Hitchcock, Tim, (i)

Hitschmann, Eduard, and Edmund Bergler, (i)

HIV-1, (i)

Hoffmann, E. T. A., (i)

Hollingworth, Leta Stetter, (i)

homosexuality, laws against, (i)

Hopkins, Matthew, (i)

hormone replacement therapy, (i)

Howard, William Lee, (i)

Hughes, Geoffrey, (i)

humoral theory, (i), (ii), (iii)

Hungerford, Lord Walter, (i)

Hunter, William, (i)

Hustler, (i)

‘hygiene hypothesis’, (i)

hymen, see virginity tests

hymenoplasty, (i)

Hysteria, (i)

‘hysterical paroxysm’, (i), (ii)

impotence

in men, (i)

in women, (i)

Inanna (Ishtar), goddess, (i)

incubi, (i)

Indecent Advertisements Act (Ireland), (i)

infanticide, (i)

infertility, (i), (ii), (iii)

Ingeborg of Denmark, (i)

Innocent III, Pope, (i)

Irrigateur Eguisier, (i)

Ivo, Bishop of Chartres, (i)n

Jacobi, Mary Putnam, (i)

James VI and I, King, (i)

Jannini, Emmanuele, and Sylvain Mimoun, (i)

Jentzer, A., (i)

Jeye, Louise, (i)

Jiajing, Emperor, (i)

Jimenez, Ulises Chávez, (i)

Joan of Arc, (i)

John, King, (i)

John of York, (i)

Johnson, Denis, (i)

Johnson, Henry, (i)

Jones, Terry, (i)

Joyce, James, (i)

Kahun Medical Papyrus, (i)

Kama Sutra, (i)n, (ii), (iii)

Karras, Ruth Mazo, (i)

Kedger, George, (i)

Kellogg, John Harvey, (i), (ii), (iii)

Kellogg, William, (i)

Khoikhoi women, (i)

Khoisan woman, (i)

Killigrew, Thomas, (i)

King, Professor Helen, (i)

Kinred, Kath, (i)

Kinsey, Alfred, (i), (ii), (iii)

Kipling, Rudyard, (i)

Kirn, Walter, (i)

knickerbockers, (i)

Knowlton, Charles, (i), (ii)

Knutsford, Anne, (i)

Kokoschka, Oskar, (i)

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, (i)

Kramer, Heinrich, and James Sprenger, see Malleus Maleficarum

Kroger, William S., (i)

La Païva, (i)

labia, (i), (ii), (iii)

Ladies’ Home Journal, (i)

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (D. H. Lawrence), (i)

Lambarde, William, (i)

La’mert, Samuel, (i)

Lancet, The, (i), (ii), (iii)

Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, (i)

Lanfranc of Milan, (i)

Langham, William, (i)

lavender, (i)

‘law of kissing’, (i)

Lawrence, D. H., see Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lawrence, Gabriel, (i)

Lazarewitch, J., (i)

Le Ménagier de Paris, (i)

Le Petit Parisien, (i)

Le Vaillant, François, (i)

leg shaving, (i)

Leigh, Peter, (i)

Lenz, Norbert, (i)

Leonardo da Vinci, (i)

lesbians, (i), (ii), (iii)

Lespinasse, Victor Darwin, (i)n

L’Étude Académique, (i)

LGBTQ rights, (i), (ii)

Liardet, Arthur, (i)

Licensing Act (1662), (i)

Lichtenstern, Robert, (i)

Lieberman, Hallie, (i)

Liji, (i)

limericks, (i)

Lloyd, Elisabeth, (i)

Lombroso, Cesare, (i), (ii)

London Foundling Hospital, (i)

Longman, William, (i)

Lothar, King of Francia, (i)

Lucian of Samosata, (i)

Lydston, George Frank, (i)n

Lysol disinfectant, (i)

Macaulay, Zachary, (i)

McMullen, Matt, (i)

Madan, Martin, (i)

Madia Gond people, (i)

Magnas, Elizabeth, (i)

Mahler, Alma, (i)

Maines, Rachel, (i), (ii)

male refractory period (MRP), (i), (ii)

Malleus Maleficarum (Kramer and Sprenger), (i), (ii)

Malone, Molly, (i)

Malory, Thomas, (i)

Mandela, Nelson, (i)

Manfield, Charles, (i)

Mannequin, (i)

Mannin, Ethel, (i)

Maoris, (i)

Marie Antoinette, Queen, (i)

Marston, John, (i)

Martial, (i), (ii), (iii)

Marvell, Andrew, (i)

Massachusetts Medical Society, (i)

Masseur, The, (i)

Masters and Johnson, (i)

masturbation, (i), (ii)

anti-masturbation campaigns, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

clitoris and, (i), (ii), (iii)

Pygmalionists and, (i)

see also dildos; vibrators

mathematics, (i)

matriarchal societies, (i)n

Medical Lexicon, (i)

medicine men, (i)

menstrual huts, (i), (ii)

menstruation, (i), (ii), (iii)

and abortifacients, (i)

amenorrhea, (i)

anti-feminists and, (i)

and bicycling, (i)

drinking menstrual blood, (i), (ii)

and ‘hysteria’, (i), (ii), (iii)

‘period poverty’, (i)

PMS, (i)

taboos, (i), (ii)

Mercurius Fumigosus, (i)

Mercury, Freddie, (i)

mercury, (i), (ii), (iii)

‘Merryland Books’, (i)

miasma theory, (i)

Michelangelo, (i)

Middleton, Thomas, (i)

midwifery, (i)

Milligan, Spike, (i)

Mills, Humphrey, (i)

Minos, King of Crete, (i)

miscarriage, (i), (ii)

Miss Congeniality, (i)

‘Model Borghild’ project, (i)

modesty, rise of, (i)

Mohr, Melissa, (i)

Moll, Albert, (i)

money, in human history, (i)

monkey glands, (i)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, (i)

Moone, Margaret, (i)

Moos, Hermine, (i)

Moran, Caitlin, (i)

Mosher, Clelia Duel, (i)

Murdock, George Peter, (i)

Murray, Fanny, (i)

Muscio, Inga, (i)

My Fair Lady, (i)

Napoleon Bonaparte, (i)

Native Americans, (i), (ii)

Nazis, (i)

necrophilia, (i)

Neotantra groups, (i)n, (ii)

New Dictionary of the Terms of the Canting Crew, A, (i)

Newbald, John, (i)

Newton, Caroline, (i)

Newton, Sir Isaac, (i)

Newton, Thomas, (i)

Nicholson, Jack, (i)

Night Searches, (i)

nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) test, (i)

Nocturnal Revels, (i), (ii)

Norton, Richard, (i)

nymphomania, (i), (ii), (iii)

Nyrop, Kristoffer, (i)

Nzinga, Queen Ana, (i)

Obstetric Society of London, (i)

‘Octoroon Parlours’, (i)

Offences Against the Person Act (1861), (i)

opium, (i)

orgasms, (i)

anorgasmia, (i)

and bicycling, (i)

and ‘hysterical paroxysm’, (i), (ii)

la petite mort, (i)

and male refractory period, (i), (ii)

multiple, (i)

science of, (i)

slang terms for, (i)

supposed debilitating effects, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

trans women and, (i)

‘vaginal’ and ‘clitoral’, (i), (ii), (iii)n

Victorians and, (i)

and zinc loss, (i)

see also masturbation

Oribasius, (i)n

Ovid, (i)

Oyster, The, (i)

oysters, (i)

Paltrow, Gwyneth, (i)

paraphilias, (i)n

Paré, Ambroise, (i)

Parent du Châtelet, Alexandre, (i)

Parke, Ernest, (i), (ii)

Parry, John S., (i)

Pasiphae, (i)

patriarchy, and virginity, (i)

Paynel, Katherine and Nicholas, (i)

Pearl, The, (i), (ii)n, (iii), (iv), (v)

Pedley, Cicely, (i)

Peele, George, (i)

pelvic inflammatory disease, (i)

pelvic massage, (i), (ii), (iii)

penis enlargement surgery, (i)

penitentials, (i)

pennyroyal, (i)

Penthouse, (i)

Pepys, Samuel, (i)

perfumes, (i), (ii), (iii)

Perkins, Mary, (i)

Perret, Jean-Jacques, (i)

Pham, Michael N., (i)

Philip Augustus, King of France, (i)

Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, (i)

Philotus, (i)

Phryne, (i)

physiognomy, (i)

Pilot, The, (i)

Pindar, (i)

plague, (i)

plastic surgery, (i)

Plato, (i), (ii)

Platter, Felix, (i)

Playboy, (i)

plethora theory, (i)

Pliny the Elder, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Plutarch, (i)

Pompeii, (i), (ii)

Pompeius Trogus, (i)

Pornhub, (i)

Post Office Act (1953), (i)

postcards, (i), (ii)

Powell, John, (i)

Pratt, James, (i)

Praxiteles of Athens, (i)

Pretty Woman, (i)

prolactin, (i)

propaganda campaigns, (i)

prostate cancer, (i)

prostitution (sex work), (i), (ii)

advertising, (i)

black women and, (i), (ii)

historiography of, (i)

and internet, (i)

male, (i)

‘oldest profession’, (i), (ii), (iii)

physiognomy and, (i)

sacred, (i), (ii)

see also tart cards

Proverbs of Hendyng, The, (i)

Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, (i)

pubic hair, (i), (ii)

pubic lice, (i)

Puppo, Vincenzo, (i)n

‘Purity Balls’, (i)

‘pussy’ (the word), (i)

Pygmalion, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

qadeshes (temple prostitutes), (i)

‘quaint’ (synonym for cunt), (i)

‘quim’ (the word), (i)

Quran, (i), (ii)

Rabelais, François, (i)

rape, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

see also sexual assault

Rational Dress Society, (i)

Raya III, Raja, (i)

razors, (i), (ii)

Ream, Charles, (i)

Reich, Wilhelm, (i)

rejuvenation treatments, (i)

Richard II, King, (i)

Richardson, Thomas, (i)

Riddell, Fern, (i)

Road to Wellville, The, (i)

Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Rocky, (i)

Roger’s Profanisaurus, (i), (ii)

Romance of Lust, The, (i)n, (ii), (iii)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, (i)

Rowley, William, (i)

Rubenhold, Hallie, (i)

Rufus of Ephesus, (i)n

Rush, Geoffrey, (i)

Ruskin, John, (i)

Russel, Christian, (i)

Russell, John, (i)

Rykener, John, (i)

Sade, Marquis de, (i), (ii), (iii)

safe-sex campaigns, (i)

St Albert the Great, (i)

St Godric, (i)

St Jerome, (i), (ii)

St Thomas Aquinas, (i)

same-sex relationships, in Ancient World, (i)

Sampolinski, Dr, (i)

Samuel, Alice, (i)

Samurai warriors, (i)

Sanderson, John and Tedia, (i)

sanitary towels, (i)

Saul, Jack, (i), (ii)

Saviland, Thomas, (i)

savin, (i)

Savonarola, Michael, (i)

Scaliger, Joseph Justus, (i)

Schatzberg, Eric, (i)

Schwaeblé, René, (i)

Second World War, (i)

semen, (i), (ii), (iii)

semen retention, (i)

serotonin, (i)

sewing machines, (i)

Sex and the City, (i)

sex dolls, (i), (ii), (iii)

Nazi, (i)

sex robots, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

sex work, see prostitution

sexual assault, (i)

see also rape

sexually transmitted infections (STIs), (i)

Shadwell, A., (i)

Shakespeare, William, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Sharp, Jane, (i)

Shaw, George Bernard, (i)

‘Ship of Fools’, (i)

Shuldyakov, Vladimir, (i)

Sildenafil, see Viagra

Sin of the City of the Plain, (i)n, (ii)

Sir Mix-a-Lot, (i)

slander, (i)

slave trade, (i)

‘slut’ (the word), (i)

smear tests, (i)

smells, (i)

and ‘feminine hygiene’, (i)

Smith, Alexander, (i)

Smith, Charlotte, (i)

Smith, Delia, (i)

Smith, John, (i)

Smith, W. Tyler, (i)

Smith, William, (i)

Somerset, Lord Arthur, (i)

Sophocles, (i)

Soranus of Ephesus, (i), (ii), (iii)n

Sorti Somnath temple, (i)

Southwark red-light district, (i), (ii)

Spanish Fly, (i)

sparrows, (i), (ii)

Spenser, Edmund, (i)

spermatorrhea, (i)

Stanley, Leo Leonidas, (i)n

Stavri, Zoe, (i)

steatopygia, (i)

Steinach, Eugene, (i)

Stengel Casey, (i)

Stepford Wives, The, (i)

stone phallus, (i)

Stone, Isabel, (i)

Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), (i)

Story of Menstruation, The, (i)

Storyville, New Orleans, (i), (ii)

Strabo, (i), (ii)

Strachan, David, (i)

succubi, (i)

Sun Simiao, (i)

Sushruta Samhita, (i), (ii)

Swift, Jonathan, (i)

Swinscow, Charles, (i)

syphilis, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

tableaux plastiques, (i)

tampons, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Tanjor temple, (i)

Taoism, (i)

Tapputi, (i)

tart cards, (i), (ii)

Tennant, David, (i)

testosterone, (i), (ii)

Thatcher, Margaret, (i)

Theutberga, Queen, (i)

Thomas of Chobham, (i), (ii)

Thousand and One Nights, A, (i)

thrush, (i), (ii)

Tilt, Edward John, (i)

Tissot, Samuel-Auguste, (i)

Town, Susan, (i)

Treaty of Rome, (i)

Trotula de Ruggiero, (i)

Trotula, (i)

Trump, Donald, (i), (ii)

Tuccia, (i)

Tudor, Mary, (i)

Tutankhamun, Pharaoh, (i)

underarm hair, removal of, (i), (ii)

urine, and virginity tests, (i), (ii)

vagina

bacterial infections, (i), (ii)n

douching, (i), (ii)

and ‘feminine hygiene’, (i)

fish inserted into, (i)

secretions, (i), (ii), (iii)

vaginoplasty, (i), (ii), (iii)

the word, (i), (ii)

Vagina Monologues, The (Ensler), (i)

Vaishnava Baul people, (i)

Valentine’s Day, (i)

Valerius Maximus, (i)

Valverde, Sarah, (i)

van Butchell, Martin, (i)

van den Steene, Jeanne, (i)

van Keyschote, Maertyne, (i)

vasectomies, (i)

Velu, Henri, (i)

Venette, Nicolas, (i), (ii), (iii)

Vestal Virgins, (i)

Viagra (Sildenafil), (i), (ii), (iii)

vibrators, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

‘virgin’ (the word), (i)

virginity

in Anglo-Saxon law, (i)

as supreme moral state, (i)

virginity tests, (i)

and the hymen, (i), (ii)

and patriarchy, (i)

and urine, (i), (ii)

virgins, adult, (i)n

Voronoff, Serge, (i), (ii), (iii)

Walker, Clement, (i)

Walsh, John Henry, (i)

Walter of Hemingburgh, (i)

wandering womb theory, (i)

Ward, Ned, (i)

Waus, Thomas, (i)

Webster, John, (i)

Weird Science, (i)

Welsh, Irvine, (i)

Westminster Whore, (i)

Wheeler, Anne, (i)

Whitaker, John, (i)

White, Lulu, (i)

‘whore’ (the word), (i)

Wiess, John, (i)

Wilde, Oscar, (i), (ii)

William of Saliceto, (i), (ii)

Wilson, Erasmus, (i)

Wilson, Mary, (i)

Wing, Dr, (i)

Winnel, Richard, (i)

witches, (i), (ii), (iii)

Wollstonecraft, Mary, (i)

Wood, George Bacon, (i)

Woolf, Mary Jane, (i)

Worth, Jennifer, (i)

Wozniak, Joseph, (i)

Wright, Thomas, (i), (ii)

Wydecunthe, Bele, (i)

Xdolls, (i)

Yaxley, Isabel, (i)

Yeats, W. B., (i)

Yellamma, goddess, (i)

Yenge, (i)

Yorkston, James, (i)

Young, Elizabeth, (i)

Ziegenspeck, Robert, (i)