Philobiblon

If as a woman you ride a bicycle, you’ll never have an orgasm again … that’s the message of an article that plays the usual “active woman” scare line. Until of course you get to the facts: “There were no negative effects on sexual function and quality of life in our young, healthy pre-menopausal study participants.”

Via Feministing, with curious echoes, as a commentator there points out, of Victorian scare tactics about active women, and claims about what it would do to their reproductive health.

While looking around this, just found a History of Women in Sport timelines – some good stuff: 1804 – “The first woman jockey was Alicia Meynell of England. She first competed in a four-mile race in York, England.”