Dr. Jacobs speaks about "Vegetal Eroticism: Plants between Science and Fiction" at Arizona Senior Academy

The discovery of the many ways in which plants can reproduce caused a series of moral scandals in the eighteenth century and again at the turn to the twentieth. There was concern that people would get ideas about their own sexuality from plants, so botany became a scandalous pursuit for women and was censored from school curricula. These worries about vegetal eroticism were satirized in humorous literary texts that mock the seductive danger of plants. Follow me on a little trip through the scandalous world of plants between science and fiction!

This event is taking place in the context of the exhibit Eden? Plants between Science and Fiction.