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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