The origin of the world

The Origin of the World - A certain part of the woman's body, the one that Gustave Courbet evoked in his painting The Origin of the World, aroused and continues to to arouse the somewhat too “lively” interest of certain representatives of the people masculine. This is how Dr. Kellogs, the inventor of cornflakes, was able to claim that masturbation causes uterine cancer and Dr. Baker Brown was able to advocate the eradication of female onanism by the removal of the clitoris (the last one was performed in 1948!). If the medical profession does not go there with the back of the spoon, the philosophers are not left out. Jean-Paul Sartre can thus write “… the feminine sex… is a call to be, as besides all the holes”… Under the sharp pen of Liv Strömquist, all the a gallery of characters (fathers of the church and of psychoanalysis, pedagogues, sexologists) whose theories and diagnoses have had consequences devastating on female sexuality. After having dissected, in The Prince Charles' feelings, marriage as a historical construct and social, Liv Strömquist lifts the veil on centuries of sexual repression and shatters all misconceptions about the female sex, without forget to scratch – in passing – the obsession of our culture with the binary sexuality. In this new comic book essay, Liv Strömquist tells us surprises once again by the accuracy and clarity of its analysis, its paths and frantic returns between past and present, its unexpected parallels and, above all, his omnipresent vitriolic humor.