This looks…a little scary.
“Heavy-duty…industrial-model…steam powered…” I wonder what industry would have used such things exactly. (Let that be a challenge to all you writers of steampunk erotica!) Found in this post at techmorgasmic.com.
Paul Fussell, in his magnificent book Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, reports a song sung by G.I.s: (scroll down to see it)
So I guess we now know whence they got the idea.
What I would like to draw attention to is the sentence *above* the description of the image:
“The erection itself, measuring 26 feet from base to glans, has not yet been installed or even completed…”
I can’t help but wonder what that would be used for, or where it would be installed!
Whoah!