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When I was in high school, we read the Canterbury Tales. In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," a knight violates a young woman. He is described as having a "lusty liver
by baryphonic 3y ago
When I was in high school, we read the Canterbury Tales. In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," a knight violates a young woman. He is described as having a "lusty liver."
- meindnoch 3y ago"White liver refers to a condition characterized by sexual excess and a wasting to death of sexual partners." White liver: a cultural disorder resembling AIDS (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8456330/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8456330/)