Although we’re back in the UK after our holiday in Vienna, you’ll be pleased to hear that we’ve not yet run out of the kinky ideas generated by the trip.
Another of our Viennese escapades took us to an exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions. Scale models, recreated from his original drawings, demonstrated his ingenuity.
“Touching explicitly allowed,” proclaimed the leaflet. Sadly, this actually meant that you were activly encouraged to experiment with the various contraptions – rather than that I had to fondle Haron intimately as we toured the display.
It’s claimed that Leonardo invented the glider, helicopter, bicycle, tank, robot and more. And, of course, it was his spanking machine which particularly caught our eye. The girl would be bent over a beam, her ankles and wrists secured with wooden shackles. The officer would stand behind and to one side. As he turned a handle, an intricate series of cogs and pulleys powered a large paddle, the height of which could be adjusted to deliver a perfectly-placed, exceptionally hard swat every time.
Or maybe we just imagined that one. Shame, really: it would have been fun to have tied Haron down and demonstrated Leonardo’s genius to the assembled crowd.
I think they may have got the model of that one slightly wrong. As I seem to recall, instead of a nasty big wooden paddle, it was a nice, soft, leather flogger that was being powered. Or maybe that was just my imagination 😉
Ah, the man was a genius!