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Footnote: Columbus Discovers the Clitoris

EPISODE · Jul 14, 2020 · 9 MIN

Footnote: Columbus Discovers the Clitoris

from History Unzipped · host Tony Perrottet

A survey of the forgotten milestones of modern love -- from the 1556 "discovery" of "the seat of a woman's delight" by Renaldo Columbus (no relation to Christopher) to the 18th century birth of "sex as we know it," the invention of pornography (1864), the first use of the word "homosexual" (1892), Virginia Woolf's vision that that the sexual revolution was nigh (1908)... and more!

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