Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]De: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu> >Krechtz@aol.com jotted down the following: > >> Okay, but what about the sex dolls? > >Yeah, but if Leica starts making sex dolls, they're going to cost $2495, >take eight silver-mercury batteries (when all others take AA), and we'll >have flame wars on the LUG about which holes you should tape up with black >tape... > I dont know if I should write this, (actually I have been looking for an excuse to mention this for some time and this seems to be the right moment). No, I dont want Leica to start making sex dolls but there are precedents in the industry. Some time ago there was a review in "Svenska Dagbladet", Swedens most serious conservative daily newspaper of a history book on the views of western medicine on female sexuality. Some of the thing that we today consider to be sex toys started out as medical tools for the treatment of female "hysteria". One of these medical tools was the first vibrator that was made by none other than Leitz/Leica´s arch-competitor Zeiss. So who knows what strange things may be hidden in the vaults of strange prototypes in Solms? /Anders Nygren