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Old 08-06-2011, 09:04 AM   #783
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Kinich Ahau wrote View Post
That wouldn't have stopped me. Nothing would have stopped me when I was seventeen!
But it appears that this was a device for very young, prepubescent boys, not teenagers. It was a very cruel Victorian contraption, since it was obviously meant to inhibit erection, something which no male, let alone a child, could control.

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