"When in the 1740s the young Princess Maria Theresa was worried that she had not immediately become pregnant after her marriage to the future Hapsburg Emperor, her physician responded with the advice that was no different from what Soranus might have offered to a Roman matron: Ceterum censeo vulvam Sanctissimae, Majestatis ante coitum esse titillandum" (Moreover, I think the vulva of Her Most Holy Majesty should be titillated before intercourse.) She bore more than a dozen children." (p. 150)
Carrol