#ye olde dildo

ironinomicon:

an early modern dildo shop

from the frontispiece to the school of venus, or the ladies delight, reduced into rules of practice, a sex manual printed in 1680

My birthday was this week, so in celebration have this piece of absolutely delightful history.

I’m tolerably certain that’s a vegetable but I can’t quite figure out which vegetable. I think it’s some kind of squash….

“Only in very instances do women experience one tithe of the sexual feeling which is familiar to most men. Many of them are entirely frigid, and not even in marriage do they ever perceive any real desire.”

-Dr. George H. Napheys, The Transmission of Life, c. 1874