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The AO3 Tag of the Day is: True aesthetic dedicationSpouse is an engineer and I’m here to say steam DOES get hot, but it is quite possible to make a steam-powered vibrator that doesn’t. Think of a steam locomotive, where the boiler is kept hot but the wheels, which are powered by the boiler, do not.
So you have a boiler by the bed and then TUBES and LINKAGES, GEARS, COPPER, all the good stuff. Hell, the steam might even be used to generate electro-magnetism! So it weighs 30kg (about 65lbs). It’s awesome! Beautiful! Scientific! LOUD.
CHUNKA-CHUNKA-CHUNKA
Summon the coal-shovelers to power up the fuckinator
Summon the coal-shovelers to power up the fuckinator
hey folks this is a real thing. that fic author knows what they’re talking about.

steam powered, coal fired, and intended to deliver a hysterical paroxysm mechanically in order to give that poor doctor’s tired fingers a rest.
you can learn more here around the 1 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4sDG1AcUNo
and you can see a timeline of sexual machinery through the ages here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvpy4b/fucking-hysterical-a-timeline-of-vintage-vibrators (gird your loins. a lot of them can result in much more than a little death.)
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