When, in the course of his exposition of theProblemata Physica, Pietro d’Abano arrived at the thirty two questions on sexual subjects that constitute Book IV, he did not hesitate to expound them, as he had the previous sets of questions on medicine, sweats, and drunkenness. It was a characteristic of this Aristotelian text to inquire into the natural causes of all manner of phenomena, including many relating to human bodies and behaviors; and it was Pietro’s intellectual style to embrace such a project. But sex was not a culturally neutral subject. In the previous century, church doctrine had been
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