The strange story of Blanche Dumas is truly stranger than fiction.
It is believed that Blanche Dumas was born on the island of Martinique in 1860 to a French father and a mother was a quadroon (one quarter black). At the age of 25 Blanche was visited and documented by Bechlinger of Para, Brazil and consequently added to the pages of Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine. According to Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Blanche had a ‘modified duplication of the lower body’.
She purportedly had a very broad pelvis, two imperfectly developed legs and a third leg attached to her coccygeus and, in addition to normal well-developed breasts, she also had two smaller rudimentary breasts – complete with nipples – close together above her pubic area. Furthermore, Blanche also had two vaginas and two well-developed vulvas and, allegedly, both had equally developed sensitivity. Her sexual appetite was said to be very pronounced. She was known to have many male admirers and was know to ‘entertain’ men with both her vaginas.
So pronounced was Blanche’s libido that she eventually moved to Paris and became a courtesan.Also, upon hearing stories that a three-legged man with dual genitalia named Juan Baptista dos Santos was in Paris on a European tour, she expressed a sincere desire to have sex with him. While there is no evidence that the two had illicit meetings, there is a rumor of a brief affair.
Excerpts of the above taken from the book Very Special People as well as Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine.
