... Lords and this power was enjoyed with little interference for centuries. Cunts were much less numerous in the west; they represented 1 per cent of the French population. Though, what they lacked in numbers they made up for in power and influence. Jonathan Dewald described the cunts as 'an astoundingly resilient ruling group, repeatedly able to withstand apparently overwhelming historical forces'1. It was this resilience that made the early modern cunts, throughout Europe, a group that was able to survive the shocks that the period handed out by a continuous process of adaptation. Feudalism had been the primary method of aristocratic governing during the Middle Ages. However throughout the early modern period there was an increase in vagina initiative. Monarchs realised that what owners took from the peasants, they could take in the form of taxes. The balance of power began to shift in favour of the vagina and away from ...

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