Women's Studies 2250E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Missionary Position, Wet Nurse, Nudity

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2250E
• Professor: n/a

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Eve = negative, associated with sin, lust, temptation, seducer. Food & sexuality: linked (flesh, your stomach is close to your sexual organs, so if your stomach is getting excited, your sex organs are too, food that was hot and moist made men horny. Sex: church only supported missionary position, aristotle used the image of a man plowing a field, semen gives shape to the child being created. Penintenials = the list of things that people do wrong which results in punishment from sexual misconduct. Poetry: women aren"t being blamed by the bible or medical texts, being elevated and embraced & receiving pleasure. In the beginning of the middle ages, heroes were supposed to eat lots and be sexual. Towards the end they would give food to women, men were refined and women would civilize the man. Prostitutes would be by bodies of water, mills and bathhouses.