Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages
by Jacquart, Danielle. 1988. Original French version 1985 https://archive.org/details/sexualitymedicin0000jacq Page 6 Sexual activity was linked to fear in the medieval West – and not only the fear inspired by moral or religious law, the transgressing of which filled men and women with the terror of the sacred. On a more prosaic level, anyone who reads […]