I am slowly making my way through the second season of Boston Legal and in episode 20, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," a divorcing couple are fighting over possession of a Victoria Erotica collection. They fight for possession of the premiere piece of the collection: The Hysteria Machine. I found it fascinating, and hilarious. I think I would love to go to a sex museum. Someone should take me.
Here is some dialogue from the courtroom:
Shirley Schmidt: Could you tell us how the Hysteria Machine works?
Clifford Cabot: Women would frequently complain of symptoms such as nervousness, heaviness in the abdomen, vaginal lubrication, insomnia, and so on. Physicians referred to these symptoms as “hysteria,” but of course they were actually signs of sexual arousal. Before inventions such as this, the physicians would ‘massage’ a woman until she reached a climactic “paroxysm,” as they called it.
Shirley Schmidt: And how did this machine come into being?
Clifford Cabot: A doctor invented it because, well...his arms got tired.
Behold, the Hysteria Machine:
Oh those Victorians, the crazy buggers, treating female sexuality as an illness.
I miss having lewd suppertime conversation. I want to talk about pornography and masturbation and penises while I eat! It helps digestion. I'm not sure my family would appreciate it...
I finished Life of Pi today. It was pretty good, especially...the iiiiiisland. Mostly, I wasn't very motivated to read the book, I just wanted to finish it...so I sucked most of the pleasure out of it. However, I was amazed at how much could happen in the middle of the ocean, in a lifeboat...for 200 pages... god...
I would have gotten more out of it if I hadn't been skimming, but...I am done. *throws book in the corner* Actually, that's a lie. I placed it gently on the book shelf, and I liked it just fine. Now, if only I would finish One Hundred Years of Solitude, which I love (So much. It's amazingly written, and although I am only halfway through the novel, it is easily one of my favorite books), but haven't gotten around to picking back up. Oh magic realism, yer so crazy.
I ate a fortune cookie today. It read:
You will be rewarded for your hard work this past month. . .
. . .in bed. :D:D
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Read The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, if you like 100 Years. It's magical realism and I liked it more than 100 Years, actually.
My life is crazy this week... Danish written final exam, Medical Consequences test on diabetes, Human Health and Disease take-home test due, and my art history final ten page paper due. FUN. Not.
Lily is flying back home today, so you will be much closer to her than me. I am a roomie abandoned on this side of the Atlantic. :/
I'm glad you're back home safe and sound!
Medical consequences of diabetes: take insulin, or you die.
Ahem. Glad you finished Life of Pi! And enjoyed it. Perhaps I will steal it in order to procrastinate on comps.
And, a sex museum would be fun! Do they have those? And are any nearby? Seems like a European thing. But that machine is really scary, haha.
I'll give YOU a paroxysm...
I actually bought The House of the Spirits this weekend! Because I love magical realism!
Wow. That week sounds rough. I feel like a bum just sitting here, doing nothing. I can't wait to see you and Lil again!
Peter: The closest sex museum in the US is in New York. (and in Hollywood and Miami Beach) Hmph. There is one in Barcelona and many sprinkled in Europe. But I am not in Europe. There is one in Copenhagen (Kait!! Go visit it for me!!)
Life of Pi is allll yours. You would enjoy it more than I. (I keep making it sound like I hated it...I really didn't)
I miss BOTH of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<3<3
One of the guys who lives in my house went to the Copenhagen erotica museum with his girlfriend. I think they liked it. ;) But it is apparently expensive to get into so I might have to give it a pass...
DUDE, I think there totally was one in either Paris or Rome. Sex museum that is. I want to say Paris. Sadly, didn't have time to go. Maybe next time. ;)
I am finally home after an insanely long day of traveling. I have missed my bed. And my doggie. AND shopping. And good food. AND you guys. But I get to see you sooon!!! Yaaaayyyy!! :D
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