labiae

Updated: May 15, 2025

Alexander Wilder, states that the term "Nymphe" and its derivations were used to designate young women, brides, the marriage chamber, the lotus flower, oracular temples and the labiae minores of the human female. The lotus then, which is found throughout antiquity, in art as well as in religion, was a sexual symbol, representing to the ancients the combination of male and female sexual organs.

Sanger Brown - The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races: An Interpretation

This organ is made up of several parts, as follows: The lips, or labiae, as they are technically known, the clitoris, and the vaginal opening. The lips are a double row, two on either side, and are known as labiae major and labiae minor, that is, the thicker and thinner, or larger and smaller lips.

H. W. (Harland William) Long - Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living : Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise

Alexander Wilder, states that the term "Nymphe" and its derivations was used to designate young women, brides, the marriage chamber, the lotus flower, oracular temples and the labiae minores of the human female. The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology.

Various - The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10