CAS AN 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Castration Anxiety, Pubic Hair, Underarm Hair
26 Jul 2020
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Idea that menstrual blood exposes a man to urethritis-causing bacteria , which is harmful to living tissues. No evidence of such toxins, there"s little cyclic variation in vaginal bacterial flora, doesn"t explain why women were isolated from fields and sacred areas etc. Women are less effective when hunting if they"re on their period - so women can"t hunt because animals respond to menstrual odors. Lack of evidence of menstrual odor contaminating objects. Female bleeding reflects male castration anxiety provoked by genital bleeding. Research found no such correlation - men don"t have castration fears and still have sex with menstruating women. Menstrual taboos almost always involve a decrease in women"s workload. Research shows that when women do less physical labor, they"re more likely to conceive in their next ovulatory cycle doesn"t apply much to the us where many women have desk-jobs and access to food. When women exercise more and eat less to lose weight, they have:
