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Teiresias, Proportions, And Sexual Pleasure, Spyros Missiakoulis Jan 2022

Teiresias, Proportions, And Sexual Pleasure, Spyros Missiakoulis

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

In this short article, I claim that Teiresias, the blind prophet of Apollo, in order to answer the question of whether “in sexual intercourse the woman had a larger share of pleasure than the man did”, measured the abstract concept of sexual pleasure and acted as a present-day scholar. With the help of numerical, not geometrical, proportions, he ended up with the conclusion “a man enjoyed one-tenth of the pleasure and a woman nine-tenths”.


Pension Building, Washington Dc, E Laura Golberg Jan 2016

Pension Building, Washington Dc, E Laura Golberg

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Robin Chapman On (Her) Mathematics Education, Robin Chapman Jul 2015

Robin Chapman On (Her) Mathematics Education, Robin Chapman

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

No abstract provided.