Odd question for this forum re: Antique Dildos

[Save Ferris]

The place I work is attached to a manufacturing facility that does some production work for our company. Anyway theres a general fixit guy whos always coated with oil and grease. Nice guy but strange. Hes friends with a guy in my area. When the fixit guy found some old car magazines my coworker put them on ebay for him I think he made a few bucks.

Well today he came over with an ANTIQUE VIBRATING DILDO that he found. Hes a dumpster diver so it wouldnt surprise me where he found it but I didnt ask. He showed us this thing. It was about 12inches with a vibrator adjustment knob on the back and a cloth cord with a two prong plug for the wall socket. It was made out of 'bakelite' not even plastic. We estimated its from circa 1950s

Is it worth anything? I cant imaging there being many of them still around today. Anyplace he should sell it for historical value?

[12thmonkey]

Well today he came over with an ANTIQUE VIBRATING DILDO that he found.

First piece of advice: WASH YOUR HANDS! :eek:

From the 50s, eh? Put it on ebay and call it the Beaver Cleaver!
You'll make a million!

[Save Ferris]

lol
Hell no I wouldnt touch this thing. The guy had no problem however, really disturbing.

[Mrs. Danger]

I'll buy it.

[Save Ferris]

you got mail ;)

[The Bus]

I don't know if I'd call it "Antique"...

BTW, dildos are mentioned in the bible. See, for example:


Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them.


Of course, that's open to interpretation (http://www.godrules.net/library/treasury/treasuryeze16.htm#17).

I imagine jeweled dildos are a bit expensive. The Greeks were a bit craftier and made theirs out of leather. Aristophanes even mentions them in the last play of his War and Peace trilogy, Lyristrata (http://drama.eserver.org/plays/classical/aristophanes/lysistrata.txt)


And not so much as the shadow of a lover! Since the day the Milesians betrayed us, I have never once seen an eight-inch gadget even, to be a leathern consolation to us poor widows.

It's also been translated as "Why, since those beastly Milesians revolted and cut off the leather trade, that handy do-it-yourself kit's vanished from the open market."

What is too bad is that members of a Sultan's harem weren't allowed these same 8-inch Milesian dildos. A 17th-century Venician emmissary who visited the famous Topkapi Palace (http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/harem.html) in Istanbul wrote this in one of his dispatches:


"Nor is it lawful for anyone to bring anything to [the Harem members], with which they might commit foul deeds of lechery; so that if they eat cucumbers, the are sent into them sliced, to deprive them of the means of playing the wantons."

(Emphasis mine).

So there you go. Dildo History 101.

[Shagrath]

Is it worth anything? I cant imaging there being many of them still around today. Anyplace he should sell it for historical value?

I'd probably suggest ebay. A couple of years ago, a friend of my parents found an antique douche set at a yard sale or something, and made over a hundred bucks on it. Same thing with a vintage condom that he found dumpster diving (new in tin, not used).

People have all kinds of weird hobbies. The person who bought the douche was a male lawyer, and wanted a handwritten note on how it should be used (hoping the seller was female), so the seller obliged with the following note:

"You fill it with water and shove it up your ass"