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<jats:p>That era thought it had set us free: since the Enlightenment we had put an end to Aristotle's myths about women and his direct line ‘from the <jats:italic>glans penis</jats:italic> to the <jats:italic>gianduia pinealis’</jats:italic>, the obligatory obverse of the ‘wandering’ uterus that causes women's silly flightiness. Half a century later, when the fair sex took over men's brains in scholarly medical disputes, it needed the experience of the thanklessness of the flesh and its pleasures, alias Casanova, so ‘hassled’ by anatomical ecstasies, to remind believers in the ‘thinking uterus’ of the obvious: ‘Women have a <jats:italic>uterus</jats:italic>, men have sperm, that is the sum of the difference; but if thought comes from the soul and not the body, why … involve the <jats:italic>uterus</jats:italic> in women rather than the sperm in men?’ Hence the learned gentlemen's ‘spermatic sentiments’. And here is a fine conclusion: ‘Woman thinks as woman’, ‘man thinks as man’ … and as the refrain says, they both dance well! So we've learnt a lot.</jats:p>