A fascinating short history of the he's-at-home, the dildos owned by the wives of Nantucket whalers while their husbands were on their multi-year voyages. It's interesting both as a bit of history, but also historicity, as the question of whether such things actually existed mixes into the discussion of privacy, loneliness, and the opacity of the past.
(h/t +Kee Hinckley)
There Once Was a Dildo in Nantucket
The following essay appears in issue 10 of The Common. On Nantucket, 80-year-old Connie Congdon and I sat in her dim living room looking at the 120-year-old plaster dildo that a mason had found in…
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Plaster??????????
In Chinese, they are called 💄won toemoss….💄