Cthulhoid genitals of the 1940s sex-guide industry
Jen sez, "Amusing scans and illustrations from a 1941 guide to sex. For some reason, most of the glands and body parts they illustrate look like Cthulhu monsters. There's also an amazing chart of comparative clitoris sizes, with each sample sketch life-sized but looking like Popeye chins."
Studies in Crap Unveils Picture Stories of the Sex Life of Man and Woman (Thanks, Jen!)
So, Dr. Keller claims his images make sex better. This one shows how nerves and glands dance the maypole around the brain.
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I actually have this book (a paperback version of it). This is what my parents used when they gave me 'the talk'.
I'm 37, and born in 71. This book was already 30 years old when I was the result of some popeye chin lovin'.
I'm pretty sure I was 14 when I got handed this. I'm fully recovered.
The civilised man may know less about sex than the milkmaid? Someone's been reading their Thomas Hardy.
This is one of those blog posts where someone, in their attempts to bring the snark, instead comes off as being kind of stupid. The book seems to be an earnest, if occasionally misguided, attempt at showing that normal variations in genitalia do occur, as with the illustrations of clitorises. (I'm guessing that "Negro porter with uterus" is the author's way of describing someone with an intersex condition.)
Similarly, the chart of a woman that mentions things like eczema scars and blisters might be helpful in an era in which a heterosexual man might conceivably not see a woman's naked body right up to the point at which he loses his virginity (if even then), and needs to know that most women have minor marks and blemishes just like him. I find that part rather touching, in fact, and Alan Scherstuhl's apparent inability to grasp that doesn't encourage me to follow his blog any further.
Keller's drawing of the uterus is copped wholesale from Kahn, author and illustrator of Das Leben der Menschen. He's the one that renders human bodies and their parts as if they were complex industrial machines or factories. One particular illustration, Der Mensch als Industriepalast, has become relatively popular since being reproduced as a poster on sale in some museum gift shops.
For the record, Kahns drawing of the uterus is far better. It looks like a ripe, vivesectioned cantaloupe.
C.f. Clay Chapman's "Late Bloomer":
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2549171
I remember that Outer Limits.
should have married the two
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sensory_Homunculus.png
Oh Hai! I did a medical type degree. When they teach you about the human nervous system they describe the distribution of nerve endings in the body by using a picture. The picture is called the sensory homunculus; and is of course very distorted (big lips and genitals, etc). Here is an example:
http://www.juergenhaenggi.ch/Bilder/Homunculus.png
His Noodly Appendage strikes again!