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   Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 23:52:45 JST Vagina Museum

   It's time to dredge up another patent for a horrid old-timey vaginal gizmo. Today we'd like to introduce you to the simply-titled Pessary, patented by Edward Wagner in 1891...

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     Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 23:53:04 JST Vagina Museum

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     On reading the accompanying patenting documentation for the Pessary, we are *convinced* that Edward Wagner was, in fact, an alien from a planet which had access to medical textbooks but had never actually made contact with humans before.

     The purpose of the invention, in Wagner's own words, is "to support the womb of the human female and at the same time to receive the menstrual fluid from the womb of said female and conduct it through and beyond the mouth of the vagina of the same."

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     Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 23:53:05 JST Vagina Museum

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     Wagner's pessary is a pretty simple, if a little bit cursed, piece of kit. You pop it in the vagina, inflate it, and it sits there supporting the uterus. It has an extra pipe coming out of it to conduct menstrual fluid.

     Now, we've shown you a cursed old-timey inflatable vaginal doohickey before*, so what's so special about Wagner's that we have decided to doom you with the knowledge of it today?

     *here, ICYMI https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/112122667010921975

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     Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 23:53:21 JST Vagina Museum

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     If you are wondering just how many times an author needs to use the words "human female" or construct sentences which are weirdly specific about internal anatomy belonging to the same "human female" before we conclude they're a martian, the answer is only twice. It's weird once, it's *very* weird twice.

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     Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 00:16:51 JST Vagina Museum

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     Sadly, Edward Wagner was a common enough name that it's hard to unpack whether he made it back to his home planet. We hope he did, because the 19th century had enough inflatable vaginal gadgets as it was.

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     Adriano (adriano@lile.cl)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 00:19:16 JST Adriano

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     @vagina_museum Wondering if it was helium-proof so women... sorry, "human females" could walk with a spring in their step.