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In pre-20th-century Europe, childbirth was an exclusively female, often eroticized space—midwives used oils, touch, and positioning that mimicked coitus. By 1981, feminists and anthropologists were exhuming this history. They argued that the rise of male obstetrics had "frozen" the birth canal, turning a living, voluptuous passage into a straight tube viewed from the foot of a lithotomy table. Birth - Anatomy of Love and Sex -1981-