The first “girlie magazines” were intended to be respectable, emphatically not “pornographic”. The first magazine to merit the adjective “girlie” was “Esquire”, which, in the 1930s, was the only one of its kind. The decision to carry pin-ups was bold and innovative; “Esquire” began, incidentally, as a men’s fashion magazine,
World’s Biggest Artificial Breasts
Guinness World Records lists Maxi Mounds as the holder of the record of the “World’s Largest Augmented Breasts”. Her certificate reads:
Mounds (USA) was measured at Sarasota, Florida, on 4 February 2005 and found to have an under breast measurement of 91.44 cm (36 in) and an around chest-over-nipple measurement of
Most remarkable vaginal contents
Medical men have been called upon to extract a wide variety of objects from the vagina and urethra following masturbation or accident. Usually the woman knew that the object was inside her and requested medical assistance. Sometimes however a foreign body can lodge in the vagina, after an accident of
Peak Period of Japanese Erotic Art
Japanese erotic art is generally regarded as reaching a peak during the Edo period, 1600-1868; Edo refers to the small fishing town which was to succeed the old city of Kyoto as capital of Japan and which was to become the Tokyo of today. The Edo period saw a quite
First Erotic Coins
China also boasted erotic coins (“spring coins”) as early as the Han Dynasty. On one side of a coin would be words of good omen; on the other, a god and a goddess would be copulating. It was claimed that such coins could dispel evil spirits, as a consequence of
Highest Sexual Expenses Incurred
Louis XV of France, a man of prodigious sexual appetite, established a royal harem in the Parc aux Cerfs; the house was situated in the grounds of Versailles. The local garrison was charged with the task of preventing local young men penetrating the secrets of the harem. And a certain
Longest Vagina
The vagina in the largest species is, by the standards of mere mortals, an extraordinarily capacious device: Elephants do not have the biggest vaginas but they are quite impressive in the magnitude of their genital apparatus. In the female elephant the vagina is a “simple, capacious tube which measures nearly
Most coital positions in Chinese sex manual
In a famous Chinese sex manual, the “Art of the Bedchamber”, a Taoist named Tung Hsuan Tzu developed the theories and instructions left behind by earlier sex instructors – such as Lady Purity, Lady Mystery, the Yellow Emperor and Peng Tsu. He begins his work – “Of all human behaviour,
Most Powerful Attributes Accorded to Semen
Most of us know that semen has the remarkable ability to help start babies. But this is only one of the powers attributed to the mysterious substance. One idea is that semen has a “magnetic” effect those who retain their semen i.e. refrain from sexual activity, are able to draw
Rarest Type of Human Hermaphrodites
The rarest cases of human hermaphroditism are the instances of true or gonadal hermaphrodite. In this condition each gonad is an ovotestis – part ovary and part testis – or one is an ovary and the other a testis. Swyer, writing in 1954, remarks that only forty cases had been