Nov 03, 2010 23:26
"...a heteroclite...a hermaphrodite...amphibious...mongrel...a vile poisonous fruit...a manifest Absurdity!...It implies a Thing, that is neither a Man, nor a Wife, but a MID both! -Man-Mid-Wife, must consequently be a Monster in Nature!!!"
-Excerpts from an English pamphlet on "male-midwives"