Erectile Dysfunction Was a Crime in Pre-Revolutionary France
Trial by Congress was the only way women could get divorced in the Middle Ages
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6 min readApr 26, 2022
“In France from the mid-1500s to the late-1600s — and possibly in Spain and Italy as well — a determined wife could have her husband subject to trial by congress, in which he would have to demonstrate his ability to come erect, to…
