What were they thinking?
Posted on September 7th, 2009 in Health Care | Comments Off
Time travel always sounds quite an exciting prospect. Looking around now, historians have thousands of unanswered questions. Why did this happen? How come no-one stopped that from happening? If they could step into a TARDIS, they could go and observe or, if they wanted to risk prompting changes, they could ask the people involved what they were thinking. This is where all the excitement comes because the risk of changing the past and creating paradoxes is entertaining, even if only for those interested in science fiction. Since there is no practical system for time travel, the researchers step forward with what they can dig up from old records. Now everyone gets into the game of interpreting the evidence to meet their expectations. When it comes to the history of sex, the interpretations grow further apart as each new author has their own agenda, e.g. to compare Michel Foucault with Germaine Greer with Pope Paul VI. So, looking at this history shows us centuries of various religions moralizing and philosophers theorizing about what it was for but, until recently, no serious interest from the medical profession. No-one had dared to study it by applying the scientific method to collect detailed evidence. Read the rest of this entry »