Erotic furniture
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
“This arm-chair has five springs, which come into play all at once as soon as anyone sits down in it. Two springs catch the two arms and hold them tightly, two others separate the legs, and the fifth lifts up the seat.” --Casanova's chair as described in Histoire de ma vie |
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Erotic furniture, represents any form of furniture that can act as an aid to sexual intercourse. Whilst almost anything can be used for this purpose, the most common form of furniture employed for sex is the bed, but couches and sofas come a close second. These are not strictly erotic furniture, as their primary use is not erotic.
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In literature
"The Human Chair" (人間椅子, Ningen-isu) is a short story by Japanese author and critic Edogawa Rampo, the story of a man who hides in a sofa to feel the persons who sit in him.
In art
In the erotic furniture category belong art works such as erotic furniture of Catherine the Great in the late 18th century. In the 20th century, there is Chair, Table and Hat Stand (1969) by Allen Jones and Les Krims's Heavy Feminist with Wedding Cake (1970).
Mario Philippona is a furniture designer, known for what he calls "sexy furniture," a series of disembodied female representations.
Types
Specifically designed furniture for erotic purposes can include
- Devices for spanking and flagellation such as the Berkley Horse
- Sex swings
- Devices for using gravity to aid in lovemaking without the use of complicated slings.
- Fisting slings
- Various types of angled foam wedges or specially designed pillows that support various sex positions.
- Bondage equipment such as stocks and pillories
- Smotherboxes and other queening stools.
- the Love Chair, a curious chair made of curved tubular sleel, articulated in several ways and designed to facilitate otherwise impossible sexual acts. This device was advertised in men's magazines in the mid 1970's, and is seen in at least one of Nina Hartley's Guide to videos, but it is no longer commercially available.
- Sawhorses, which are shaped much like the version used for carpentry, but have a sharpened edge and is primarily sat on to achieve a feeling similar to a crotch rope in bondage.
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