In his Decretum, a tenth-century manual on canon law, Bishop Burchard of Worms directed priests to ask female parishioners if they had inserted live fish into their vaginas and kept them there “for a while” until they were dead, then cooked and fed them to their husbands to stimulate passion. He prescribed two years of […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/03/07/her-infinite-variety-the-once-and-future-sex/