Stephanie Haerdle is the author of Not Being Afraid Is Our Job! Circus Riders, Animal Tamers and Other Female Circus Performers and Spritzen: Geschichte der weiblichen Ejakulation (the German edition of Juice, first published in 2020). Elisabeth (Liz) Lauffer is a German-English literary translator based in the US. In 2014, she won the Gutekunst Prize for Emerging Translators. Her other translations include The Art of Naming by Michael Ohl and The Radical Fool of Capitalism by Christian Welzbacher (both MIT Press).
CONTENTS
Author’s Note ix
Preface xi
1 MULBERRY TREES AND JADE WATER: FEMALE JUICES IN TEXTS FROM EARLY CHINA 1
2 WATERS OF LUST AND LOVE: FEMALE JUICES IN ANCIENT INDIAN TEXTS 13
3 FIRST COMES PLEASURE, THEN PROCREATION: THE FEMALE SEED FROM ANTIQUITY
TO THE MODERN AGE 27
4 EJACULATION AND POLLUTION, WET DREAMS, AND JOY FLOW 65
5 ANATOMY REVISITED: G-SPOT, VAGINA, AND CLITORIS 101
6 “IN CONTROL OF EJACULATION”: SUPERHEROINES OF FEMALE EJACULATION 135
EPILOGUE 163
Acknowledgments 173
Image Credits 175
Notes 177