Topical Guide 285
Mark Dorset
Tools: Darning Egg
Sex: Aids, Toys, and Tools: Dildos
In anticipation of this grand moment, Alice had practiced often, in her bed, manipulating the darning egg handle with one hand and sighing, panting, smiling, and grimacing into the mirror that she held in the other. She had gotten rather good with the darning egg handle and had developed a repertoire that pleased her: ease in, eeeease out, sliiide in, sliiide out, thrust, retreat, thrust, retreat, thrust, retreat, in, out, in, out, eeeease in, eeeease out, eeeease in, eeeease out, thrust, thrust, thrust; repeat as needed.
Herb ’n’ Lorna, Chapter 7
Looking for a project to fill your idle hours? Why not use that lathe that’s gathering dust in the garage to make a darning egg? (A darning egg makes a great gift for that certain someone!)
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The dildo is not a modern invention. Instead, it is an ancient tool that is believed to date back to the Stone Age.
Archaeologists have attempted to conceive of non-sexual uses for the distinctly-shaped objects of this period that they’ve vaguely referred to as “ice age batons.” However, scientific opinion is gradually shifting toward the idea that these objects were being used for sexual pleasure.“The 30,000 Year History Of The Dildo: From the Stone Age to Ancient Greece to the present, there’s been one tool that nearly every civilization has kept handy,” All That’s Interesting | Checked By John Kuroski | Published February 12, 2018 | Updated October 17, 2021
See also: Tools: Carpenter’s Pencil: TG 80
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