The Tudors view of reproductive organs

The Tudors view of reproductive organs.

Medical theories about the reproductive organs were confused and contradictory.

While some doctors believed that a child is formed entirely from the male seed , with the womb simply providing a place for it to grow, others argued that there was both male and female seed and that the two needed to combine.

Those who espoused the later theory believed that the female genitals were the same as shapes as male , with two testicles nestling at the top at the vagina near the mouth of the womb .

Writing in the 1570s, Thomas Vicary described a woman’s reproductive organs as " No other than those of a man reversed or turned inward."

Source Tracy Borman, The private lives of the Tudors.

Pic  from Stanford University web from an anatomy compedia 1491.