"In general, early modern Catholic doctrine held that sexual relations were acceptable as long as they were within mar…"

"One presumes that all of those jokes about the missionary position might have a kernel of truth."

"It is the custom with you, for the eldest of five brothers to marry and for the wife of such brother to be common to …"

"Those at whose birth the feet appeared first, instead of the head, which is considered the most difficult and dangero…"

"To Eve's womb, from our sweet to-morrow, God shall greatly multiply sorrow."

"Our mothers’ wombs the tyring-houses be Where we are drest for this short comedy:"

"A prettie rysing wombe without a weame, That shone as bright as anie siluer streame; And bare out like the bending of…"

"And Venus, thou, with timely seed, Which may their after-comforts breed, Inform the gentle womb; Nor let it prove a t…"

"Your brother and his lover have embraced: As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time That from the seedness the…"

"Thou art he who createst the man-child in woman, who makest seed in man, who giveth life to the son in the body of hi…"