It wasn't all top hats, big dresses and chimney sweeps. Behind the scenes the Victorians were having naughty fun with "medical" devices used to cure their hysteria and other ailments.
This is an original Dr Young's self retaining "dilator" which was claimed to cure many ailments including bad breath (!), apathy, constipation, piles, anemia, pallour, weakness, insomnia, stress, diarrhea, headaches, flatulence, indigestion, insanity and many other things.
Yes, I sterilised the livin' bejesus out of it when it arrived from eBay!
Here's the Wikipedia article that thankfully doesn't reference their full original instructions, which claimed they could be used on all members of the family, but when using them on children and elderly people, to only use the small ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Young%27s_Ideal_Rectal_Dilators
Latterly they even mounted them on the end of motorised "reciprocating massagers" for a more "healthful and invigorating" experience.
Obviously, in this era eBay is full of modern versions with more honest descriptions of their intended use.

Things that Naughty Victorians pretended were for medical use. This device is stamped patented 1892. The first versions were made of hard rubber. Laterally, when Bakelite plastic became available at the end of the Victorian era, they moved on to making them out of Bakelite.

This is a Dr Young's ideal rectal dilator. Uh, it was used to cure constipation, headaches, acne, insanity and could give you a restful night's sleep because all you had to do was just smear it in some ointment and just jam it up your butt. That's literally what the Victorians actually did.

13 thoughts on “Those naughty victorians!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars BrokenSoul79x says:

    Look up the origins of the phrase 'blowing smoke up your arse'.. lol. They had all sorts of ridiculous 'medical treatments'. Lmao

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Powera 2 says:

    DILDEWS 🀀🀀

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tedys Electronics Tech Channel Π― says:

    πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚christmas black light

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars popescu cristian says:

    i'm just really glad i can get one of those today without any prescription from a doctor

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars A.S says:

    They brought us sewers, steam, pig iron and butt plugs.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Caligari says:

    Jacob Rees Mogg.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars sidraket says:

    dont know about the acne

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Karl Rossiter says:

    And still do to this day😊 you should give it a go, it’s quite nice. Mine vibrates πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jonathan Brown says:

    That time Clive was forced to quickly release a youtube short to explain what just fell out of his shopping bag

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars BioZgamer says:

    Then I guess the adult toys industry picked it up and mass produced it as a butt plug

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Allan {a.k.a. RocKITEman} says:

    Getting to the bottom of things, medically speaking…🀭

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Bolha says:

    Marquis de Sade approves this video. πŸ˜πŸ˜˜πŸ˜‡πŸ€—πŸ˜ŽπŸ˜†πŸ˜…

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James Smith says:

    Like to see that on the Antiques Roadshow " It's not worth much I'm afraid, well bugger me ! " πŸ€£πŸ€£πŸ‘

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