Since we are currently talking a lot about hygiene, I wanted to dedicate this post to a sanitary amenity that has meanwhile lost its original societal role: the bidet. Invented in France in the 17th century, its main function was to serve as a post-coital vaginal douche. Up until the 1960s (when the pill took […]
Category: Cabinet of curiosities
Susanne Margarethe Brandt (Gretchen)
The color pink
Historically, the color pink has been associated, at least in Europe, with the male gender. Red was considered the color of blood, eros, and power, connecting it, in turn, with ideas of physical strength and manhood. The color pink, “the little red,” as the diluted version of red (a color, it should be mentioned, that […]