2026-02-12 11:12 UTC
Now, in Galen's defence, he was under the impression that uteruses had a distinct left cell and right cell because he had never looked at a human uterus. His anatomical dissection work was based on dogs. And dogs actually *do* have two very distinct horns to their uteruses.
However, bitches aren't born because they gestate further away from the liver, so Galen was still very, very wrong regarding the heat thing.
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@vagina_museum@masto.ai 2026-02-12 11:16
Galen believed that the genital and reproductive organs were much the same in either sex, but went inside if they were cold during gestation, and stuck out if they were sufficiently warm during gestation. This meant that Galen correctly identified the ovaries as homologous to the testes. However, he believed the vagina was homologous to the penis, and that the uterus itself was an internal scrotum. Which it very much isn't.
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@bougiewonderland@freeradical.zone 2026-02-12 21:41
@vagina_museum bitches are just born ✊