This was, essentially, a pair of heavy-duty underwear that presumably would be placed on an individual against his will. Cook, Hartford, CTĬook’s invention simply sounds cruel. Instead, his sole objective was reducing catastrophic seminal loss.ģ.
Like the other inventors in this list, Reynolds wasn’t particularly focused on the fact that the male body produces an endless supply of gametes ( roughly, 85 million sperm cells per day- per testicle).
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The strap also prevents the penis from rising … an erection makes but slow progress and soon dies away … a full erection is hindered and an involuntary emission of seminal fluid is effectually prevented. The erection of the penis is prevented by the action of the coiled spring, which exerts a pressure upon the glands penis against an increase in length and by the action of the pressure plates, which exert a pressure against an increase in diameter. Reynolds was in fact all business with this “Instrument for the Prevention and Cure of Spermatorrhea.” (I can only guess that’s like diarrhea, by the way, but I’d take it any day over the latter.) It's not a fun accoutrement for BDSM aficionados of yore.
And another problem that came to light only after the fact: for a lot of men, the mere act of putting the spermatic ring on tended to cause, not stifle, erections.Ģ. Here’s one: the design didn’t easily accommodate penises of different sizes, so if you were an especially endowed male, that painful “prick” meant to shake you out of your erotic somnambulism was more like a serious puncture wound. There were some kinks in the operating system, however, that later inventors sought to improve upon. To apply the instrument the springs are adjusted and secured by the screw to make the ring of such size as to make it pass easily over the penis … and so remains until the organ commences to be distended and by its pressure outward against the spring, moves the end of the said spring off the roller and liberates the pin, which is then by the sudden contraction of the spring, made to prick the penis with sufficient force to produce pain enough to wake the patient. Here’s how Gibbons explained the logistical aspects of his austere anti-semen creation: Gibbon’s “Spermatic Ring” may not look like much, but when it comes to the penis’s pain receptors, sometimes the most terrible things come in small packages. So without further ado, here are thirteen notable ones, listed in the order of their appearance.ġ. The competition was fierce, but between the years 18, a total of 36 applications for such strange devices received patents. We Americans, after all, have long been unrivaled in both our spirit of entrepreneurial inventiveness and our pathological prudery.
Patent Office yields an embarrassment of riches regarding various contraptions for guarding against “self-abuse” (masturbation) and “nocturnal seminal emissions” (wet dreams) in human males. It should come as no surprise that an archival search of the U.S.