WOMANHOOD
2018 Softcut print 10 x 15 cm
by Núria Romeu Caudet
"We should now proceed to the generative Parts of Women, that is, to the Description of those Parts, that involve Women in a thousand Miseries, enervate Men a thousand manners of ways, by means of which weak and feeble Women triumph over the strongest of Men. Parts which have ruined many the most potent Kings, destroyed Emperors, made wise Men Fools, deceived the Learned, seduced the Prudent, thrown the Sound into most shameful Distempers, impoverished the Rich, and vanquished the stoutest Hero’s: That hurried holy David into Sin, led away Salomon to Idolatry, prostrated the Strength of Sampson, and compelled the stoutest Hercules to the Distaff; I say to the Description of those Parts, which alone by some peculiar sorts of Enchantments are able to drive the Minds of most Men, and those the most Prudent, to Distraction, while they think these to be the sweetest and the fairest Parts in Women, which are the most foul and nasty in her whole Body, sordid and diseased Parts; besmeared with ugly Blood and Matter, defied with hourly Piss: Smelling of Sulphur and Puddle-Water, and as if unworthy to be seen placed by Nature in the most remote and secret Part of the whole Body, next to the Anus and its Dung; being the Sink of all the Nastiness and Uncleanness of her Body."
The anatomy of human bodies: Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in the art. (1694). Isbrand de Diemerbroeck. p. 155
