Women' Petition Against Coffee

[helenjp]

I was reading a Japanese book about coffee when I spotted an illustration of the cover of the

Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674 and was fascinated to find the whole text on the internet.

I thought that cocoa was regarded as something of an aphrodisiac, and was surprised to find coffee given such a limp reception...

[Susan G]

Wow. I had suspected the text would rail against too much sex (as caffeine is a stimulant)...............but, wow. What a screed!