For 600 years the Voynich manuscript has remained a mystery—now, researchers think it's partly about sex ** the culture of late-medieval #Gynecology and #Sexology—which physicians at the time often referred to as "women's secrets."

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https://phys.org/news/2024-04-years-voynich-manuscript-mystery-sex.html

Six Books You’ll (Probably) Never Be Able to Read

As headlines have been informing us recently, censorship is very much alive and well across the United States—but there’s a difference between a book you’re not allowed to read and one you simply can’t read. The subset of non-censored reading material out there that actively seems to dare readers to make any sense of it is deep and vast. From codices to puzzles to straight-up art projects, books that aren’t meant to be read (or are essentially impossible to read) present the bibliophile with a true conundrum: Just how hard should you have to work to read and enjoy a book?

Here, then, are six publications that you’re free to try to track down, but which have a seriously select group of readers nonetheless…

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#CainsJawbone #EdwardPowysMathers

https://www.tor.com/2023/08/23/six-books-youll-probably-never-be-able-to-read/