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- From: rsr@soda.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Good Vibrations Catalog
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 23:44:16 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- References: <1992Nov15.094230.26584@vpnet.chi.il.us> <BxrwyC.6on@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1992Nov16.122530.18097@dsg.cs.tcd.ie>
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- In article <1992Nov16.122530.18097@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes:
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- ->I recently read a snippet in a newspaper which sound like an urban
- ->legend. It is possible to get penile implants which cause an erection at
- ->the press of a button. (The button controls fills/drains the penile
- ->implant from a resivoir.) According to the article, a man had such a
- ->device which was operated by a remote control (!) and got an erection
- ->anytime his neighbours operated their remote control garage doors.
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- Not as outlandish as you may think ... I've seen serious shows on impotency
- and the actual device, though teh pump I saw had a little bladder that you
- pumped to mv the fluid from the reservoir to the penile implant ...
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- The step from there to "I'm too tired to pump a little pump, make it
- electric" is very very short ...
-
- -roy
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- Roy S. Rapoport rsr@soda.berkeley.edu rsr@ocf.berkeley.edu
- "Letters from you make me feel good." -Laura Creighton
- "Why do you guys all have to have penises?" -anon
- DISCLAIMER: "I meant every word of it, but I doubt anyone else did."
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