"Let’s Talk about Sex: Victorian Anti-Masturbation Devices"

From the Chirurgeon's Apprentice:

Deathly Art in Chicago

All images from the Art Institute of Chicago:

Rock out with your cock out (on display, in a jar)

Here's an article on how one (the only?) penis museum is looking for that one member to fill out its collection.

And thanks to AZ for letting me share so many of his posts in the last few entries!

The Quotable Elias

For those who have never read Norbert Elias's The Civilizing Process, it recounts a number of rules for proper behavior in society over time.

Here are a few examples:

Donated Bodies

Check out this article on what happens to your body when you donate it to science.

And a creepy enough video introduction to dissecting cadavers:

Crystal Skull Face

Click below to see how forensic anthropologists create the terrifying face of the crystal skull vodka bottle:

Pucker up and think

Henry VIII--just a bad sperm donor?

Click the image to get the story:

Vesalius: Oops, I vivisected someone

From Katharine Park, "The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy," Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Spring, 1994), p. 19.

Flappy things

On the exhibition Animated Anatomies