Posted on 06/13/2004 7:38:11 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Mad monk's member features big in Russian erotica museum
Sat Jun 12, 6:30 PM ET
SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) - In a more innocent age, it was said that Gregory Efimovich Rasputin's legendary power over women was due to his piercing eyes.
But a new museum of erotica here suggests that the mad monk's charm may instead have been, ahem, concealed beneath his cassock.
Measuring 28.5 centimeters (about 11 inches) -- allowing for shrinkage caused by pickling -- Rasputin's penis displayed in a tall glass bottle is, to put it delicately, a big attraction at the museum.
Director Igor Knyazkin said he bought the object from a French antiquitarian for 8,000 dollars (6,600 euros), along with several of Rasputin's hand-written letters.
It was not known if he had a certificate of authenticity for such a remarkable piece.
Reputed both for his mysticism and his debauchery, Rasputin was a powerful influence at the court of the Romanov Tsars.
Concerned about his unusual hold over the Empress Alexandra, a group of aristocrats decided to kill him to save Russia.
They lured him to an assignation in 1916, fed him drugged cakes, shot him and finally killed him by wrapping him in a carpet and throwing him into the frozen Neva river.
The aura of sexual power and mysticism lives on. Some Russians think just by staring at the object, they can cure sexual impotence.
One visitor asked Knyazkin if this is true.
"Without a shadow of doubt," he replied with a smile.
Knyazkin, 37, a urologist and sexologist, set up the museum in the clinic he runs, partly with the aim of helping his patients overcome impotence. The atmosphere of the museum makes patients "more optimistic and relaxed," he said.
"The aim of the doctor is to free his patient from anxiety and fears. Men who come here are ill at ease because of their problems, and our light and happy atmosphere reassures them."
Only part of Knyazkin's collection of 12,000 erotic objects is displayed in the clinic, which is staffed by buxom nurses wearing short white blouses and high heels.
"I keep the valuable stuff at home," he said.
Nevertheless, the museum still contains an impressive collection of ceramic phalluses and bawdy drawings.
Many of the exhibits come from his patients, said the doctor, rattling off the names of several members of Russian high society.
I kind of felt sorry for little ol' Rasputin.
They want everything 20% off.
My Jewish buddy Glen told me that joke.
Oh yeah, sure, uh-huh, riiight!
Let me walk into a room where some guys pecker is pickling in a jar and I feel right at ease, ya know, soothed, calm, in control!
NOT!!!!!!!!! Shades of LORENA!! ACK!!!!
PS: what did they do with the guys sack? Petrified till they clang and used as a door chime?
Hey Fierro - lighten up your reading material, you're going to go blind you keep this up! <|:-)~~
Here's a picture of it.
Dude, put some ice on that.
It's just happy to see you.
I couldn't decide if it was happy, or singing opera. Or maybe if it was hyperthyroid.
It's not over until the fat **** sings.
When my brother tried to clear the power line leading into his house in Georgia after an ice storm, (big mistake), he fell and broke his neck.
Later, in the hospital, he was attended by a male intern, who glanced at bro's equipment, which had undergone "significant shrinkage", and he appeared to smirk.
Bro responded, "Don't laugh, dammit!! It's been swelled up like that for days!!!"
The have those?
OTOH, didn't Catherine the Great....? Oh, never mind....
Correction:
They have those?
Of course.
Peter The Great!
Thank you. Of course I just had to check out the website so it didn't do me much good.
Between this and "The Giant Lava Lamp Song" I think I have been traumatized enough for one weekend. No more clicking on links for me.
Humans are an odd bunch.
I'd call that some dilldo...
Dammit, dammit, dammit, I shouldn't have gone and looked! Just awful.
I can't decide which of you is the worst. It's a three-way tie. (And I don't want to hear any three-way jokes, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?)
If they are all packin' the peekin' poker Rasputin was, we haven't got a chance.
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