Sims is most famous for inventing the speculum and finding a cure for vesicovaginal fistula—landmark discoveries he made after hundreds of experiments on purchased and borrowed black female slaves. And since Sims either believed black women were unable to experience pain or just didn’t give a fuck about it, local anesthesia was never used. He ripped these women open—gashing their vaginas like old newspapers torn and twisted to light charcoal grills—and this motherfucker has monuments.
