The celebrated Madame Recamier was called by the younger Dumas an involuntary virgin; and in this connection could be cited the malicious and piquant sonnet-- Chateaubriand et Madame Recamier.
"Juliette et Rene s'aimaient d'amour si tendre Que Dien, sans les punir, a pu leur pardonner: Il n'avait pas voulu que l'une put donner Ce que l'autre ne pouvait prendre." Duplex vagina has been observed by Bartholinus, Malacarne, Asch, Meckel, Osiander, Purcell, and other older writers.

In more modern times reports of this anomaly are quite frequent.

Hunter reports a case of labor at the seventh month in a woman with a double vagina, and delivery through the rectum.

Atthill and Watts speak of double vagina with single uterus.
Robb of Johns Hopkins Hospital reports a case of double vagina in a patient of twenty suffering from dyspareunia.

The vaginal orifice was contracted; the urethra was dilated and had evidently been used for coitus.