11 Things People Used To Believe About Women's Bodies

It's good to live in a time where science is taken seriously (at least by most people), because some of the things that people believed just a few hundred years ago were truly mystifying. Unsurprisingly, a lot of these outdated beliefs had to do with women's bodies, and it didn't matter if there was any actual evidence for these misogynistic beliefs. Someone who sounded official declared they were true, and a lot of other people just went along with them. Some of these beliefs were mainstream more recently than you might think, so let's take a look at 11 things that people used to believe about women's bodies.