Word: fallopian
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...1540s, an Italian doctor named Gabriele Fallopius - the same man who discovered and subsequently named the Fallopian tubes of the female anatomy - wrote about syphilis, advocating the use of layered linen during intercourse for more "adventurous" (read: promiscuous) men. Legendary lover Casanova wrote about his pitfalls with medieval condoms made of dried sheep gut, referring to them as "dead skins" in his memoir. Even so, condoms made of animal intestine - known as "French letters" in England and la capote anglaise (English riding coats) in France - remained popular for centuries, though always expensive and never easy to obtain, meaning the devices...
...feet in stirrups and her husband by her side. She was awake and relaxed enough to let me watch (weird, I know) as Bennett inserted first a thin camera into her uterus and then, using a video monitor as a guide, a small coil into each of her Fallopian tubes. Afterward, Jackson walked to her car and went home to her kids. (See the Year in Health, from...
After confronting the poverty of his state, LaBruzzo, in his esteemed capacity as a policymaker, offered just such a solution. Horrified that welfare recipients should have cell phones and cigarettes on the state’s dime, he is considering a law to pay willing women $1000 to undergo Fallopian tube ligation and effectively promote state-sponsored sterilization of poor women. The law would also include tax incentives for wealthier, more educated couples to have more children. To him, the root of the welfare crisis lies in poor people reproducing faster than those who are presumably more qualified to have...
...picture of a stainless steel elephant, eyes averted flirtatiously and a jolly smile, is projected on the screen in the Carpenter Center lecture hall. “The pink ears could be fallopian tubes,” offers Jeff Koons, the controversial artist who spoke last Thursday. The shiny ears do sort of resemble one of those images found in the reproduction section in a biology book, but with a tilt of the head they look more like greyhounds—hot pink ones. Whether or not you prefer the dog or female anatomy interpretation, Koons’ open-ended...
...breaking out of classrooms and professional journals. With a scheme called Dunescape, SHoP proved that blobs could be the basis for a structure both delightful and usable, stable but almost erotic in its waving surfaces. An undulating fabric of wood slats, it formed itself into a kind of hardwood Fallopian tube of pathways, seating, alcoves and canopies...