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Christian-Georges Schwentzel, Professeur d'histoire ancienne, Université de Lorraine

SHOCKING: Did clitorises strike fear into the greeks and romans - You Need To See This

Mosaic in the entrance to the caldarium of the House of Menander, Pompei, 1st century A.D. Wikimedia, CC BY

If an anatomical description of the clitoris only appeared in some French school text books as recently as 2017, that’s because the seat of female pleasure, known by this name since at least 1559, was deeply taboo for so long.

Through history, anything pertaining to female arousal has often been erased, or regarded as dangerous or obscene – and Antiquity was no exception on this front.

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