Ancient views of conception.

I was reading today a summary of typical views about conception in the ancient world --

The whole idea is that men have a vital fire that burns more strongly than women, while women are weaker and wetter, which is a double-edged sword: their vital fire burns weaker, and so they're smaller and stupider and their excess blood doesn't get burned up and comes out monthly, but their wetness and their blood is excess matter from which a human being can be formed, when the men impart their vital fire to them.

Interestingly, the vital fire isn't in sperm per se -- rather, when, during sex, a man's blood boils because of its greater fire, he channels the foam from this boiling through his dick and passes on a person when he blows his load. This foam is exactly that seen on an epileptic's mouth during a seizure, as both are caused by frenzied blood and are emitted from the body in a wracking spasm, though I'm not ever sure if woman ever tried to conceive from a foaming epileptic, or how that would be done, since it's a scene enough when someone just drops down in a room and starts having a seizure without an unmarried yuppie 30-something with a huge salary but no husband in sight leaping in and straddling his face as quick as you can say 'jack knife'.

(On a sidenote, would they even have had turkey basters back then, since they wouldn't have had turkeys?)

Also, puberty for men is when their fire kindles and burns the woman out of them.