Testes
(left) Vagina as penis, from Vesalius, Fabrica,sixteenth century.
(right) The vagina and uterus from Vidus Vidius, De anatome corporis humani(1611).   From Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex,p. 82. |
Male and female organs displayed to demonstrate their correspondences.   From Vesalius, Tabulaie sex(1538).   Reproduced in Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex,p. 80. |
"The shorter penislike structure is the 'uterus with the testes and seminal vessels'; the longer one is the male genitalia to which the student is then asked to attach the male testes."   From Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex,p. 81. |
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