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The juciest quote from Female Caligula: Ranavalona, the Mad Queen of Madagascar:
"On these occasions [receiving ministers at her chalet], it was said that she sometimes took much pleasure in employing the services of an Ethiopian slave, whose speciality was to trim the tresses of the royal pudenda with his teeth."
another potentially interesting snippet was when the author mentioned a word, and then described it as a "particularly gruesome torture of the genitals," but then gave NO details! *pout!*
The book was pretty dull. Well-written and scholarly with a good insight into various political goings-on but just...dry. Not very much about the interesting orgies and debauchery and whatnot. darn.
"On these occasions [receiving ministers at her chalet], it was said that she sometimes took much pleasure in employing the services of an Ethiopian slave, whose speciality was to trim the tresses of the royal pudenda with his teeth."
another potentially interesting snippet was when the author mentioned a word, and then described it as a "particularly gruesome torture of the genitals," but then gave NO details! *pout!*
The book was pretty dull. Well-written and scholarly with a good insight into various political goings-on but just...dry. Not very much about the interesting orgies and debauchery and whatnot. darn.
