ash,
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From "Sketches of Russian Women's History" (1871):

In Cossack stanitsas (villages) one can see naked men dancing in the street, surrounded by a crowd of women, girls and children. One Cossack woman drank herself to the skin: wishing to collect money for vodka, she burnt her membrum and went naked through the village to collect donations for the burnt place; everyone was delighted by this joke and the Cossack woman was not left without vodka.

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themodestokid,
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@ash @russia @bookstodon @histodon @histodons any idea what Shashkov would have meant by "membrum"? I would expect it to be a euphemism for penis.

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@themodestokid @russia @bookstodon @histodon @histodons usually it is, yeah. Here, most likely her public hair

themodestokid,
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@ash @russia @bookstodon @histodon @histodons Emerson on Facebook says, Membrum it seems can mean any member of the body, though usually it is a euphemism for penis.

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