Medievalists excited at parchment fragment of 'vagina monologue'
Find in Austrian abbey dates poem to 200 years earlier than previously thought
by Kate Connolly in Berlin
Jul 26, 2019
2 minutes
It has been called the earliest form of the Vagina Monologues – an argument in verse between a woman and her vulva, originating in the Middle Ages.
Now a fragment of the text, about who gives more pleasure to men, dates the poem to
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