This magazine is filled with informative articles about small engine repair, electricity, how to build your own bicycle, along with more complex subjects like Chemistry and Medicine. But this guy looked so much like steampunk Mad-Eye Moody that I had to include it. This isn't really a good Victorian picture. I dusted it off and kept digging and then, one glorious day, I found the magazine: English Mechanic and the World of Science. Hey man, how’s that Victorian Nipple Ring article coming? And, you know what? I was curious too. And everyone who heard about the Victorian Nipple Rings was like, “Wha?” and then they wanted to know more. I’m not going to lie, I let this sit for a while. A magazine article, published in the 1890s, in Victorian England, about people getting their nipples pierced, and connecting those nipples with chains. Then I found The Golden Age of Erotica, published in 1965, which cited the same thing, except they said Fuchs got his idea from a magazine article. That’s what a lot of people figured it was. So the whole thing looked more and more like a tall tale. The problem with Fuchs was that he wasn’t big on citing sources. But I checked out Kern’s book and the above passage was cited to Eduard Fuchs, who published something called a moral history, where he talks about the Victorian Nipple Ring trend. That represents just about everything anyone seemed to have on this. The rings enlarged the breasts and kept them in a state of constant excitation.The medical community was outraged by these cosmetic procedures, for they represented a rejection of traditional conceptions of the purpose of a woman's body.” These 'anneaux de sein' were inserted through the nipple, and some women wore one on either side linked with a delicate chain. Kern says, “In the late 1890s the 'bosom ring' came into fashion briefly and sold in expensive Parisian jewelry shops. It completely changes how you watch Downton Abbey. What everyone had in common was a guy named Stephen Kern, who published a book called Anatomy and Destiny in 1975. The era is associated with stiff upper lips, but it could just as easily have been well oiled fingers.Īnd found plenty of other people on the trail, including some other piercing bloggers and Wikipedia. So they weren’t as prudish as we sometimes assume. That scene, by the way, is between a brother and sister, and it goes on to include their mother and aunt. “… suddenly letting his ***** go as she felt the crisis coming, rammed a couple of her well-oiled fingers up his ******-**** and ******* him there…” That’s a scene from Forbidden Fruit, an erotic novel. There were theaters where you could go see women in lingerie racing chariots pulled by real horses. It was also an age of gambling, drinking, burlesque shows and pin-ups. But they did not cover their table legs for propriety, that’s a popular myth. Watson saying, By jove, I think her nipples are pierced! It just sounds off somehow.Īnd people were, sort of, reserved. If you want to know why a lot of people thought this was a tall tale, just imagine Dr. Popular characters who lived the Victorian Lifestyle include none other than Sherlock Holmes and Dr. A time when gentlemen belonged to clubs and wore top hats and tails, and ladies wore steel ribbed bustles and wasp-waisted dresses and petticoats. It’s the time of Charles Dickens, the rise of factories and the middle class. The Victorian Era extends from 1837 to 1901, and that’s the reign of Queen Victoria – who apparently had the lifespan of a Highlander - in England.
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