gacked from just about everywhere...

[anotherusedpage]

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Oh how typical. Not only is it feminist, it's also pr0n.

The Descent of Woman:

"The preface to sexual intercourse today is liable to run through the whole gamut of them."

Comments

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

The book was A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, 1887. It's quite amusing in places, really. Being a Victorian medical publication, it treads a fine line between Not Wanting To Discuss Certain Things and finding it actually needs to mention them.

So for potentially sordid terms like, say, "orgasm", we get such wonderfully vague definitions as

"...a term denoting evanescent congestive phenomena, which manifest themselves in one or in several organs at once."

I mean, that could describe anything from a blush, through a migraine, to hayfever, depending how you read it.