The Pear of Anguish or the Choke Pear

The Pear of Anguish or the Choke Pear is a supposed medieval torture device used on women should they have induced a miscarriage; homosexuals; or for liars and blasphemers.

The reason I say supposed is the device itself. It twists, opening the four leaves stretching open the vagina or anal passage. The device has been questioned in its validity due to the complexity of the work to make it. Whether it was really made in the medieval times of the middle ages or much later in the sixteen hundreds still has the experts in dispute. Some experts also suspect the folding parts of the mechanism of the early devices would not have been strong enough not to break in its usage.

Liars and blasphemers would have had the devise placed in the mouth and opened causing intense pain in the jaw. 

The device would never have been washed so a considerable amount of infection would have taken place. The leaves of the device may have had spiked ends or flared outwards, causing the ripping and rupturing of the anal and vaginal cavities.  The device would not have killed you out right, but the victims would have died in agony over several days.

Here endeth the history lesson;  so  enjoy the bondage!
In next weeks lesson we will discuss the rack.
Emma xxx

Stocks and Pillorys

These pictures are mostly of the Pillory, A medieval device where the head and the arms are sandwiched between two planks of wood.

 

Stocks are the device where you sit down and your legs are placed between the two planks. 

The residents of your village would make fun of you and throw rotten food at you at best and the odd turd or two at the worst. The act of humiliation made you more likely not to commit a crime. That and a death sentence for so much as stealing a handkerchief. 

Eventually the powers that be decided to populate Australia because George the Third and his armies had lost the American colonies.The death sentence was revoked for certain crimes and criminals were shipped down to Terra Australis the great southern land.

Australia, was a mathematical anomaly at the time unproved, but mathematicians thought had to be there to counteract the weight of the world and all the land mass in the northern hemisphere. 

Here endeth the history lesson;  so  enjoy the bondage!

In next weeks lesson we will discuss the pear. 

Emma