Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are
the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And
yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there
were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more
atrocious than taking it away.
--Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-55), French author,
playwright. A Lunarian in The Other World: States and Empires of the
Moon, ch. 8 (1656). |
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