Gropecunt Lane
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Gropecunt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval
Magpie Lane in Oxford, once known as Gropecunt Lane
Grope Lane, Bristol, 1542
Grope Lane in Shrewsbury
Cunt
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Cunt is a contemporary vulgar word for the vulva in its primary sense, and it is used in a variety of ways, including as a term of disparagement. It is often used as a disparaging and obscene term for
Gropecunt Lane
…taking place within it. Gropecunt, the earliest known use of which is in about 1230, appears to have been derived as a compound of the words grope and cunt. Streets with that name were often in the busiest parts of medieval towns and cities, and at least one appears to have been an important thoroughfare…
The word "cunt" used in a medical textbook from 1380
Flyposting of the activist platform Courageous Cunts on an urban wall
Santa Cruz Women's March 2017
"Only cunts comply!!!" – one of a series of anti-COVID-19 vaccination stickers fly-pasted onto a signboard advertising the availability of vaccines, at a health centre in Birmingham, England, during the COVID-19 pandemic