Recycled Barbie Jewelry

MORE

HERE

Norwegian Sex Ed Video

Hilarious and informative. Video HERE

Tooth Worm

This image has been floating around for a while:

I love it, but I wish I knew more about it. I believe it's at the National Museum of Dentistry.

And what about this depiction?:

BTW, tooth art is really disturbing

Baby born with amniotic sac

Reported by Medical Daily

http://www.graphicmedicine.org/

Now has a MANIFESTO:

The Colors of Blood

Many of us know that horseshoe crabs have creepily periwinkle blue blood, but other animals can range from green to clear.

See the full story HERE from National Geographic

And here's a handy chart from Compound Interest

Wishlist addition

Stacking brain coasters

The Man Who Operated On Himself

Read on at the BBC

Aesthetically Pleasing Surgical Instruments from the Arabic World

See HERE

Allen Jones's Influence on A Clockwork Orange (The Movie)

Allen Jones is known for is human furniture--often featuring women in, let's say, compromising and uncomfortable positions.

Apparently Stanley Kubrick called him after seeing an exhibition of his work, but failed to offer any compensation other than fame. Instead, the set designer made new furniture based on his concepts.

Ilnna Wunderwald

I'll just share some images, but for more information go to the source HERE.

A rediscovered 18th-century dildo

THE COLOR BLACK

This article goes from this:

To this:

Being Buried, or whatever

There are many ways of being buried.

Just read the story. People can be made into gemstones, dog treats, or have profanities on their tombstones.

And a quote:

"Franklin D. Roosevelt left a careful list of specifications for his own burial, including the instruction that 'the casket be of absolute simplicity, dark wood, that the body be not embalmed or hermetically sealed.' To this last detail Gore Vidal is rumored to have quipped: 'Being Franklin, he wanted to get back into circulation as soon as possible.'"

Other considerations might be artisanal fish food or donating your body to science.

The Rack Doesn't Just Tear Tendons

Apparently--according to these folks--the rack is meant to actually fracture bone:

And some more awful things to consider HERE

Birthing Demons

The Sooterkin is a "a fabled small creature about the size of a mouse that certain women were believed to have been capable of giving birth to." (Wikipedia)

WUT

From https://nyamcenterforhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/cat-mouse.jpg?w=300&h=287

Because my research makes for unforeseen search results

from HERE

From http://www.achewood.com/

Male Mannequins

"A Good (Man)nequin is Hard to Find"

Ever Afraid of People Leaving Things In You When You Have Surgery?

From the Awkward Yeti

A HISTORY OF MENSTRUATION

Strange Anatomy by Stanley Keleman

more weirdness HERE

Illuminated Skeletons

See more HERE

Female Beauty Standards, Bodily Fluids, and Glitter

See this stuff by artist Hannah Altman:

FACTS ABOUT BLOOD

High Heels for Wartime Domination

"When the soldier stood up in his stirrups, the heel helped him to secure his stance so that he could shoot his bow and arrow more effectively."

In the muddy, rutted streets of 17th Century Europe, these new shoes had no utility value whatsoever - but that was the point. "One of the best ways that status can be conveyed is through impracticality."

- Elizabeth Semmelhack of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto quoted in this article.

Nautilus

A wonderful collection of weird and wonderful largely medical objects:

http://www.thenautilus.it/

Moulage of a child with dyptheria

Mechanical owl hunting decoy

Perfume dispenser

How to Become a Byzantine Princess

Justinian and Theodora are the Posh&Becks of the Byzantine Empire. But not many people know how Theodora--a low-born lady--caught Justinian's eye. Well, it involved a little party trick she does with her lady parts:

"Often, even in the theater, in the sight of all the people, she removed her costume and stood nude in their midst, except for a girdle about the groin: not that she was abashed at revealing that, too, to the audience, but because there was a law against appearing altogether naked on the stage, without at least this much of a fig-leaf. Covered thus with a ribbon, she would sink down to the stage floor and recline on her back. Slaves to whom the duty was entrusted would then scatter grains of barley from above into the calyx of this passion flower, whence geese, trained for the purpose, would next pick the grains one by one with their bills and eat. When she rose, it was not with a blush, but she seemed rather to glory in the performance. For she was not only impudent herself, but endeavored to make everybody else as audacious. Often when she was alone with other actors, she would undress in their midst and arch her back provocatively, advertising like a peacock both to those who had experience of her and to those who had not yet had that privilege her trained suppleness."

From The Secret History of Procopius, trans Richard Atwater, 1927, p. 102-103

Leda and the Swan by Francois Boucher

Vesalius card game

CONNECTING ANIMAL AND FEMALE ANATOMIES

Sexy Northern Mannerism

Impossible bodies by Hendrick Goltzius and his student Joachim Wtewael [Oot-vayl]:

Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan, Getty Museum, c. 1601-1610

Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan, Mauritshuis, 1601

I have seen both of these in person and there are much smaller than you would expect. They are also incredibly vibrant because rather than painting on wood, he painted on copper, which better preserves the original color. 

Goltzius, Without Bacchus and Ceres, Venus Would Freeze (Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus), c. 1600-1603

Also something that should be seen in person. Goltzius is known for having done engravings (e.g. below). Here, is is experimenting with pen and oil paint, creating the sinuous lines as if they were made by engraving. The oil is used to add color and highlights, washing most of the painting in blue to give it the feeling of freezing and allowing the warm glow of the fire to stand out. Venus's protruding nipples are echoed by her pearl necklace and she wakes up, giving and receiving various caresses--as the grapes touch her nipple, she strokes Cupid's wing and lightly touches Ceres's shoulder. 

Here are some details to show the cross-hatching:

More prints by Goltzius:

http://www.graphicmedicine.org/

A Little History of the Vagina, and Why Not to Fumigate it

Great article, as usual, by Helen King:

Floating wombs and fumigation – why Gwyneth Paltrow has ‘steam douching’ all wrong

Exchange Rates

Roman brothel tokens

The front shows the sex act, the back how much it costs: 

Also known as spintriae

Josef Mattersberger (1754-1825), influenced by Dürer