“I expose to men the origin of their first, and perhaps second, reason for existing.” Leonardo da Vinci wrote these words above his drawing “The Copulation” in about 1493. [His] sketch shows a transparent view of the anatomy of sexual intercourse as envisaged by the anatomists of his time. The semen was supposed to come down from the brain through a channel which can be seen in the spine of the man.
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