![]() ![]() Female Welsh poet Gwerful Mechain wrote a poem titled "To the Vagina", and women with access to education and time (primarily those in nunneries) wrote on the potential sanctification of a woman's body.Īlong with smell, a woman’s physical appearance was also indicative of her moral character. If the smell was good, so too was she if not, she was but "a vessel of filth." It was not only men who wrote on the subject, however. ![]() From the Guide "from your flesh's vessel, does there come the small of aromas or sweet balm? … Are you not come from foul slime? Are you not a vessel of filth?" What a woman carried inside her was an indication of her spiritual and moral character. ![]() Like menstrual blood, female vaginal discharge could be used to determine character. Saint Cecilia was famously put into a bath of boiling water, but, due to her cold female body, was not affected. Like the study of the humours, menstruation could be used to determine the health of a woman, her character, and even her intellectual ability. Where the male body excreted extra heat and four temperaments, the female instead used menstruation. ![]() While male bodies were praised (by other men) for their heat, women were likened to children smaller, colder, smoother. ![]()
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