In this unique collection of unbelievable real-life patent applications, author, photographer and connoisseur of the bizarre and faintly disturbing Richard Ross has delved into the archives of patent offices to take a look at contraptions designed to titillate and facilitate.
Accompanied by commentary from the author and illustrated with the inventors' own diagrams, inventions such as force-sensitive, sound-playing condoms and lap dance liners provide a revealing look at our issues with intimacy. Choose from a device for assisting and maintaining an erection, therapeutic or adhesive brassieres, thrusting rods, prophylactic underwear or even an artificial foreskin - each is a celebration of innovation at its most feverish.
The book is supported by Richard Ross' website
www.patentlyerotic.com
- ISBN10 0452285860
- ISBN13 9780452285866
- Publish Date 1 September 2005
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Plume
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English