Identifier: b20417238 (find matches)
Title: Untrodden fields of anthropology (electronic resource) : observations on the esoteric manners and customs of semi-civilized peoples; being a record of thirty years experience in Asia, Africa, America and Oceania
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: X, Jacobus Carrington, Charles
Subjects: Sexual Behavior Cross-Cultural Comparison
Publisher: Paris : Librairie de Médecine, Folklore et Anthropologie
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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ime to perform the act, in fact, I thinkhe scrubs the glans, as above to keep it rough andinsensitive. I can vouch for this fact, and I also cansay that an English military officer, said to me that hesaw the same thing done in Cairo—among the Mahom-edans there. Did you ever hear of the wheels, that the Malayman, fixes to his glans penis, when he copulates ? Hehas a transverse channel bored through his glanspenis, in this he puts a piece of thin wood, like anaxle, and then fixes a small toothed wheel on to eachend of this, at each side of the glans: Armed withthis impromptu carriage, he approaches his lady love,who would refuse his sexual embraces were he notto have on these wheels, which in course of action,run up and down in the vagina, and give the womanincreased pleasure. These wheels are used in Sarawak,Jahore and Malay straits generally. As a result of this transverse channel in the glans,Malays often get stricture, where the artificial channelpasses near or across the urethra.
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CHAPTER VI. Leivd contrivances and aphrodisiacs.—The Chinese hedge-hog. The masturbating ball. —The anal violin. — Contrivances to preventpregnancy. —Aphrodisiacs taken internally . — The influence offood upon the lasciviousness of the Annamites, —Swallowsnestsoup. —Preserved ginger.—Ginseng.— Tripang.—Cubeb pepperand its double use.—Aphrodisiacs applied externally. —The Phallusand stimulating plasters. - Peculiar effect of opium on the organsof generation. j Lewd contrivances and aphrodisiacs. The Chi-naman, not satisfied with the natural pleasure of simplecopulation, has tried to increase it by numerous andvarious devices. 1 The Chinese Hedge-hog. In the first place letus describe the Chinese hedge-hog . This is a wreathof fine soft feathers, with their quills solidly fastenedby silver wire to a ring of the same metal, made invarious sizes, and sufficiently large to slip over thegland, when the penis is not in erection, and smallenough to be stopped by the ri

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