Lauren’s Reviews > The Second Sex > Status Update

Asked my husband if he felt like the human species was imposing on him as an individual and he said the question gave him a migraine

"in 1694, the Dutchman Hartsoeker drew an image of the homunculus hidden in the sperm, and in 1699 another scientist declared he had seen the sperm cast off a kind of slough under which there was a little man, which he also drew."
when I think about the men who defined early reproductive medicine I have to stare at the wall a while