Happy 100th post!

Well here's a coupla excerpts of my bedtime reading, very, very interesting. And we're very lucky to be living in the modern age... (highlight to read... if willing...)

From Eve: Sex, Childbirth and Motherhood by Petrina Brown.

When complications arose in childbirth and instruments had to be used

Other instruments that struck fear into women were sharp hooks, called crotchets, and knives. While probably saving the mother's life, they would literally pull the baby out piece by piece.

If that doesn't make you grateful for being a woman in the Information age, I don't know what does.
In the Middle Ages, if a marriage debt (1 Corinthians 7: 3-5) was not met, it would be investigated by a group of wise matrons to test a woman's virginity or man's genitals, here's a case excerpt

The [...] witness exposed her naked breasts and with her hands warmed at the said fire, she held and rubbed the penis and testicules of the said John. And she embraced and frequently kissed the said John, and stirred him up in so far as she could to show virility and potency, admonishing him for shame that he should then and there prove and render himself a man. And she says, examined and diligently questioned, that the whole time aforesaid, the said penis was scarcely three inches long [...] remaining without any increase or decrease.

*rotflmao* I was chuckling so much. ;)

You know, I really don't censor much do I??