So that the clerkes be nat with me wrothe,
I sey this: that they maked ben for bothe;
That is to seye, for office and for ese
Of engendrure, ther we nat God displese.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue. Refuting the clerics’ argument that the genitalia are only there for urinating and identifying one’s sex, the Wife of Bath says that they are there for another more pleasurable purpose. They were also made for the sexual act of procreation when we don’t displease God.