Brilliant post from Diary of a Mom
{image is a screenshot of Bill and Ted from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure}
Dr William Acton.
Ever heard of him?
He was quite renowned in his day (his day being the mid-nineteenth century.)
In 1836, at the age of 23, Dr. Acton moved to Paris where he studied the functions of the generative and urinary organs under the American-born Phillipe Ricord, ultimately deciding to concentrate on gynecology. By 27, when he returned to his native England, he was already recognized as a preeminent expert in the field. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He wrote a book. He practiced gynecology for seventeen years. He wrote another book. And then another.
In his 1857 tome, The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs … he wrote, “The majority of women (happily for them) are not very much troubled with sexual feeling of any kind.”
He also wrote, “As…
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