25-04-2017, 09:22 PM
Mary D` Imperio wrote:It seems strange to me, also, that so many students have become obsessively preoccupied with gynecological or sexual interpretations of the text. The presence of the scattering of quite unexceptionable matronly little nude figures on a small proportion of folios seems to me an entirely insufficient justification for this obsession.
There's a lot more than "little nude figures"...
In addition to many womb-like shapes, the sexual references are very explicit. There's an ejaculating penis in the left margin. There are menstrual cycles in a zodiac wheel. There are male/female references to copulation in another zodiac wheel, in a manuscript where penises are often absent.
I don't think it's any stretch to see sexual references.