👉 Okay, settle in folks – let’s tackle this rather… prickly bit of late 19th-century Victorian obscenity. We're talking about
"Neo-Uvaria."
(And yes, I fully realize the name itself already leans into a wonderfully unsettling vibe.)
Now, before you immediately think it's just a fancy misspelling of something awful, let’s unpack this. It originates from a rather unfortunate incident in 1875 during a medical lecture given by an syphilitic pathologist named John Buchanan Procter. (Yep, he actually had the condition! Rather ironic for someone lecturing on venery, wouldn't you say?) Basically, Procter was describing the grotesque changes that syphilis causes within the male genitalia. During his presentation on the degeneration of these areas, he began rambling about a new, horrific deformity – and in a desperate attempt to describe the vile change he had just witnessed, he coined the term Neo-Uvaria . Let’s break it down. "Neo" means newly. And, rather bleakly, and with a touch of butchered Latin, "Uvaria, vagina, or vulva (the female orifice) was being grotesqwesly altered in the syphilitic patient. Procter described it as a new, disgusting form of that degeneration, with the horrific image of an "ape-like muzzle." The point? It wasn’t meant for polite company! It was a truly wretched
