What Your Sex Fantasies Reveal About Youīut not everyone can count on divine assistance, and in its absence, technology steps in. The Swiss Woman Spreading the Gospel of 'Feminist, Life-changing' Porn. His kisses, / He fancies, she returns / all become her, but she seems / Even more lovely naked, and he spreads / A crimson coverlet for her to lie on, / Takes her to bed, puts a soft pillow under / Her head, as if she felt it, calls her Darling, / My darling love!” And when Venus answers his prayers and breathes life into the sculpture, “Pygmalion came / Back where the maiden lay, and lay beside her, / And kissed her, and she seemed to glow, and he kissed her, / And stroked her breast” (translation by Rolfe Humphries, 1955). “He would often move his hands to test and touch it, / Could this be flesh, or was it ivory only?. Despairing of his unsatisfying relations with flesh-and-blood women, he set about making her his helpmeet. According to Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” the relationship of the Cypriot sculptor Pygmalion with Galatea, the perfect female statue he had carved, was assuredly not platonic. They became known in Japanese as “Dutch wives,” an epithet that clung to dolls of inferior workmanship.īut these artificial partners possess far more ancient poetic and mythic origins. Seafarers from the Low Countries fashioned these dolls from leather stretched on rattan, and in the course of trading with the Japanese empire in the 18th century, left a few of them behind. They are always available, always obedient.' The daughter’s name was indeed Francine, but she died nine years before the journey to Sweden, at the age of 5.Ī French catalog from 1904 boasts of dolls regarding which 'there is no fear of blackmail, jealousy, argument or disease. Still, Descartes is known to have experimented with the creation of various automatons, and also to have had a daughter, although he was never married. There they found a life-sized female doll made of leather and metal, whose resemblance to a real girl was so perfect that they were terrified and threw it overboard.Īnthony Ferguson, who recounts this peculiar story in his 2010 book “ The Sex Doll: A History,” admits that it may be apocryphal (as well as creepy). 
No one saw her again after the start of the voyage, and the suspicions of the crass, superstition-ridden sailors rose to such heights that they broke into Descartes’ cabin in order to see her for themselves. In 1649, he boarded a Stockholm-bound ship in the company of a young woman whom he presented as his daughter, Francine.
A year before his death, French philosopher Rene Descartes was invited by Queen Christina of Sweden to be her private tutor.
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