A Curious Device of Discipline and Design
Among the more unusual relics of early 20th-century personal engineering is Dr. Clovis Baumgartner’s Patent Gentleman’s Genital Cuff and Scrotal Exerciser, patented circa 1910. To modern eyes, it sits somewhere between medical instrument and mechanical whimsy — but in its day, it represented a genuine (if eccentric) attempt to apply scientific principles to masculine “vitality.”…